Template talk:PD-US-patent

[edit] Looking for the right copyright tag?

See Wikipedia:Image copyright tags for a full list of tags available. The following are applicable within the United States.

• {{money-US}}—for images of the official currency of the United States. These are in the public domain. (See also {{money}}.)
• {{PD-art-US}}—for images of works of art published in the United States prior to 1923.
• {{PD-US-flag}}—for images of U.S. state, federal district, or insular area flags
• {{PD-US}}—for copyright-expired images in the US (mainly those published pre-1923). Also for works not eligible for copyright under US law. (May be preferable in some cases vs. {{PD-old}} for US-originating images.)
• {{PD-Pre1978}} — for images published in the United States prior to 1978 without explicit notice of "copyright, year, owner" or "©" attached.
• {{PD-US-patent}}—for images from descriptions of US patents. These are in the public domain, though the actual inventions depicted might be encumbered by patents. [2] This does not prevent us from describing them, since we are not trying to construct or sell the inventions.

[edit] USA federal government images

Note. There is an upload form for items "from a U.S. federal government source." It is linked from Wikipedia:Upload. If you use one of these tags there don't forget the {{double curly brackets}} on each end of the tag!

• {{PD-USGov}}—for images created by the US federal government that are ineligible for copyright and don't fit under the following templates:
• {{PD-USGov-AID}}—United States Agency for International Development
• {{PD-USGov-Atlas}}—National Atlas
• {{PD-USGov-CIA}}—Central Intelligence Agency
  • {{PD-USGov-CIA-WF}}—CIA World Factbook.
• {{PD-USGov-Congress}}—Congress
  • {{PD-USGov-Congress-Bio}}—Biographical Directory of Congress
• {{PD-USGov-DHS}}—Department of Homeland Security
  • {{PD-USGov-DHS-CG}}—Coast Guard
• {{PD-USGov-DOC}}—Department of Commerce
  • {{PD-USGov-DOC-Census}}—U.S. Census Bureau
  • {{PD-USGov-DOC-NOAA}}—National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
• Department of Defense—use {{PD-USGov-Military}}
• {{PD-USGov-DOE}}—Department of Energy (NOTE: Some operating units, including some DOE national labs, have separate, non-free copyright policies. See the notice on the template talk page before using.)
• {{PD-USGov-DOJ}}—Department of Justice
• {{PD-USGov-DOT}}—Department of Transportation
  • {{PD-USGov-DOT-FAA}}—Federal Aviation Administration
• {{PD-USGov-DOL}}—Department of Labor
• {{PD-USGov-Education}}—Department of Education
• {{PD-USGov-EPA}}—Environmental Protection Agency
• {{PD-USGov-FBI}}—Federal Bureau of Investigation
• {{PD-USGov-FDA}}—Food and Drug Administration
• {{PD-USGov-FEMA}}—Federal Emergency Management Agency
• {{PD-USGov-HHS}}—Department of Health and Human Services
  • {{PD-USGov-HHS-CDC}}—Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • {{PD-USGov-HHS-NIH}}—National Institutes of Health
    • {{PD-USGov-NCBI-scienceprimer}}—Science Primer from National Center for Biotechnology Information
• {{PD-USGov-Interior}}—Department of the Interior
  • {{PD-USGov-Interior-BLM}}—Bureau of Land Management
  • {{PD-USGov-Interior-FWS}}—Fish and Wildlife Service
  • {{PD-USGov-Interior-HABS}}—Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) and Historic American Engineering Record (HAER)
  • {{PD-USGov-Interior-NPS}}—US National Park Service
  • {{PD-USGov-Interior-USGS}}—US Geological Survey
    • {{PD-USGov-Interior-USGS-Minerals}}—"Minerals in Your World" project of the United States Geological Survey and the Mineral Information Institute.
  • {{PD-USGov-Interior-USBR}}—Bureau of Reclamation
• {{LOC-image}}—Library of Congress collections (NOTE: This is not a license tag, but a source tag. It must be accompanied by an appropriate license tag.)
• {{NARA-image}}—National Archives and Records Administration collections (NOTE: This is not a license tag, but a source tag. It must be accompanied by an appropriate license tag.)
• {{PD-USGov-NASA}}—for public domain images from NASA as described on Category:NASA images.
  • {{PD-WorldWind}}—for public domain images derived from WorldWind
• {{PD-USGov-NRO}}—The National Reconnaissance Office
• {{PD-USGov-NSA}}—The National Security Agency
• {{PD-USGov-NTSB}}—National Transportation Safety Board
• {{PD-USGov-OWI}} Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information
• {{PD-USGov-POTUS}}—Executive Office of the President images
• {{PD-USGov-State}}—State Department images
• {{PD-USGov-Treasury}}—Department of the Treasury
• {{PD-USGov-VA}}—Department of Veterans Affairs
• {{PD-USGov-USDA}}—Department of Agriculture
  • {{PD-USGov-USDA-ARS}}—USDA Agricultural Research Service.
  • {{PD-USGov-USDA-FS}}—USDA Forest Service
  • {{PD-USGov-USDA-NRCS}}—USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service.
• {{PD-USGov-TVA}}—Tennessee Valley Authority

[edit] USA military public domain images

• {{PD-USGov-Military}}—general US military
  • {{PD-USGov-Military-DVIC}}—general US military from the Defense Visual Information Center w/parameters
• {{PD-USGov-Military-Air Force}}—US Air Force images
  • {{PD-USGov-Military-Air Force-Aux}}—Civil Air Patrol images
• {{PD-USGov-Military-Army}}—US Army images
  • {{PD-USGov-Military-Army-USACMH}}—US Army Center for Military History
  • {{PD-USGov-Military-Army-USAIOH}}—US Army Institute Of Heraldry
  • {{PD-USGov-Military-Army-USAMHI}}—US Army Military History Institute
  • {{PD-USGov-Military-Army-USACE}}—United States Army Corps of Engineers
• {{PD-USGov-Military-Award}}—for military medals
• {{PD-USGov-Military-Badge}}—US military badges and insignia
• {{PD-USGov-Military-Marines}}—US Marine Corps images
• {{PD-USGov-Military-Navy}}—US Navy images
• {{PD-USGov-Military-JCS}}-Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Joint Staff