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How to Cite a Patent

By nipper

The Patent Librarian by Michael White on “FreePatentsOnline Launches CitePatents.” — CitePatents‘ purpose it so help journalists and others understand how to best link to and cite patents.  A very noble goal. Sadly, they link to copies from FreePatentsOnline.com instead of the original documents at the USPTO (wouldn’t a journalist want to link to the original source of the information?). Yes, the USPTO should provide PDFs…that’s beside the point. The comments are open if you disagree. On a related note, did you know that Wikipedia has a built in patent citation template?  See:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_patent?  The funny thing is that that template links back to espacenet.com copies of the patents/applications (if you want to link to a USPTO version you have to use http://en...continue to full post

Full post as published by Invent Blog on December 28, 2008 (boomark / email).