Patent pending does the application number need to be displayed?

[marq]

if your technology is patent pending in the uk do you have to display the number of the pending application so you are not using the term fraudulently?
the reason i ask is that a company is displaying that a technolgy is patent pending on there website but the number of there pending application is not displayed, i would have thought they need to display this as proof, or am i wrong?
looking at a wiki page it says "Fraudulent use of the patent pending warning is prohibited by the law of many countries and inventors should be cautious when marking products or methods that may arguably not be covered by any pending patent application. In some jurisdictions, such as the United Kingdom, a warning notice should ideally mention the number of the pending application.[1]".....It doesn't make it clear weather its a leagal requirment or not it just says 'Ideally' :/

6 days ago

[lorimar]

Patent pending is totally meaningless. You may have applied for a patent, in which case displaying the application number is a sensible precaution, but it's not required, that's why it says "ideally".

UK Intellectual Property Office grunt (used to be the Patent Office)