Template talk:Ref patent

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I added a COinS tag to this template so that the information can be retrieved for citations, etc. Unanswered questions:

  • The COinS tag can accept a "kind" field, described as The patent kind code indicates the stage of the patent. Kind codes are meaningful within a country code, ie.e. "AU A1".
    • Is this related to the ECLA classification?

Dates:

Template accepts:

  • pubdate to provide the publication date of an application.
  • gdate to provide the date of grant of a patent
  • pridate to provide the priority date
  • fdate to provide the filing date

COinS accepts:

  • date Date patent was issued.
  • applyear Year the application was made.
  • appldate Date of the patent application.
  • pubdate Publication date of the patent.
  • prioritydate Priority application date

I did my best to make these match up, but please check if I got the meanings right:

  • gdate = date
  • pridate = prioritydate
  • fdate = appldate
  • pubdate = pubdate

Also, I didn't realize before I started this that it is only used in a handful of articles. Should it be merged with {{US patent reference}}? — Omegatron 20:23, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

As I've mentioned elsewhere, the two patent databases: (USPTO and espacenet) have different features. Either it would be necessary to include a potentially confusing switch to allow the user to choose which database to link to or they should be kept as separate templates. GDallimore (Talk) 21:50, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
I'm not sure why someone would choose one over the other in an article.
Also, can we convert the dates to 2007-04-23 instead of [[2007-04-23]] and link them internally? This would allow the COinS tag to encode the date correctly. The markup stripping extension has been proposed, but not yet included. — Omegatron 23:32, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] use {{US patent}}?

In converting a couple of inline {{US patent}} uses to use <ref> and this template, I noticed that this template does not create the PDF links like the other template. Can we add a conditional inclusion for the PDF links if country=US? AdThanksVance. Slambo (Speak) 11:13, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

It is an option, although probably not in quite the way you're thinking. The link at the moment points to a page of information about the patent (example US patent 5555555. That page includes, as a series of tabs across the top, links to view the plain text of the patent or to view and usually download a copy of the PDF. I could add an optional link directly to the PDF view with a term "viewPDF=" or something if you really wanted, but given that it would only take one additional click to get there anyway, I'm not sure it's worth it. GDallimore (Talk) 14:15, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
I've just made this edit to an article you were working on to show you some of the options for using this template and the template {{Cite patent}} which is the simpler version more like the US patent template. See what you can do with them to get the article the way you want! GDallimore (Talk) 14:30, 12 June 2007 (UTC)