| Utility patents must have numbers entered as seven or eight characters in length, excluding commas, which are optional. Examples: |
| 10,000,000 -- 100000000 -- 6923014 -- 6,923,014 -- 0000001 |
| Note: Utility Patent 10,000,000 will issue in 2018 |
| The below patent types must have numbers entered as seven characters in length, excluding commas, which are optional. Examples: |