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General patent template for citing patents or patent applications from any country is drawn from the espacenet database.

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Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Country code	country country-code country	two-letter country code (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2); the top 10 countries by patent application in 2011 were: JP=Japan, CN=China, US=United States, KR=South Korea, DE=Germany, FR=France, GB=United Kingdom, CH=Switzerland, NL=Netherlands, RU=Russia Suggested values JP CN US KR DE FR GB CH NL RU Example JP	Line	suggested
Publication number	number publication-number patent-number	patent or patent application publication number; do not include commas (e.g. 1,700,545 should be 1700545)	Line	suggested
Title	title	patent title	String	required
Status	status description status	application or patent – if pending, use application; if granted, use patent Default patent Example patent	Line	suggested
Date of publication	pubdate publication-date	the publication date of an application, required if status/description=application; use format YYYY-MM-DD Example 2017-01-01	Date	suggested
Filing date	fdate	the filing date; this is not displayed, but is used to generate COinS meta data and may have future utility. Use YYYY-MM-DD Example 2017-01-01	Date	optional
Priority date	pridate	the (earliest) priority date; this is not displayed, but could be useful to include for future reference. Including multiple priorities is unnecessarily complicated. Use YYYY-MM-DD Example 2017-02-01	Unknown	optional
Date of issue	gdate issue-date	the date of grant (issuance) of a patent; required if status/description is not "application" Example 2017-02-01	Date	suggested
Inventor 1 surname	invent1 inventor-surname inventor1-surname inventor-last inventor1-last inventor invent-1	surname – 1st inventor Example Smith	Line	suggested
Inventor 2 surname	invent2 inventor2-surname inventor2-last inventor2	surname – 2nd inventor	Line	optional
Inventor 3 surname	invent3 inventor3-surname inventor3-last inventor3	surname – 3rd inventor	Line	optional
Inventor 4 surname	invent4 inventor4-surname inventor4-last inventor4	surname – 4th inventor	Line	optional
Inventor 1 given name	inventor1-first inventor-given inventor1-given inventor-first	given name – 1st inventor	Line	suggested
Inventor 2 given name	inventor2-first inventor2-given	given name – 2nd inventor	Line	optional
Inventor 3 given name	inventor3-first inventor3-given	given name – 3rd inventor	Line	optional
Inventor 4 given name	inventor4-first inventor4-given	given name – 4th inventor	Line	optional
Inventor 1: Wikipedia article	inventorlink inventorlink1	Wikilink biographical article name, no square brackets	Page name	optional
Inventor 2: Wikipedia article	inventorlink2	add biographical article name, no square brackets	Page name	optional
Inventor 3: Wikipedia article	inventorlink3	add biographical article name, no square brackets	Page name	optional
Inventor 4: Wikipedia article	inventorlink4	add biographical article name, no square brackets	Page name	optional
Assignee, first	assign1	first assignee's name	Line	optional
Assignee, second	assign2	second assignee's name	Line	optional
URL	url	Explicit URL to patent information Default http://worldwide.espacenet.com/textdoc?DB=EPODOC&IDX={{{CountryCode}}}{{{PublicationNumber}}}	URL	optional