{"id":11914,"date":"2022-06-20T08:36:44","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T06:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iamip.com\/?post_type=docs&#038;p=11914"},"modified":"2022-06-20T08:36:45","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T06:36:45","slug":"patent-classification","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/iamip.com\/de\/wiki\/patent-classification\/","title":{"rendered":"Patent Classification"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>What is IPC and CPC?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Patent classifications are used by patent offices to assign patent applications, issued patents and utility models to technical areas and thus make them retrievable. All technical areas are covered.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The patent classifications are assigned upon filing a patent and during the examining process by the examiners. The first assigned classes are shown in the patent document. Classes can be amended during the examination process if new aspects are added or if the first assignment was incomplete or wrong. These amendments are reported by the patent offices and are available in databases, &nbsp;such as the DOCDB of the European Patent Office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The most important patent classifications are the <a href=\"https:\/\/iamip.com\/wiki\/ipc-international-patent-classification\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">International Patent Classification<\/a> (IPC) and the <a href=\"https:\/\/iamip.com\/wiki\/cpc-cooperative-patent-classification\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Cooperative Patent Classification<\/a> (CPC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Patent offices worldwide use the <a href=\"https:\/\/iamip.com\/wiki\/ipc-international-patent-classification\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">IPC<\/a>. There are approximately 70 000 different IPC codes for different technical areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/iamip.com\/wiki\/cpc-cooperative-patent-classification\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CPC<\/a> is an extension of the IPC and includes approximately 250 000 classification entries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wipo.int\/classifications\/ipc\/ipcpub\/?notion=scheme&amp;version=20190101&amp;symbol=none&amp;menulang=en&amp;lang=en&amp;viewmode=f&amp;fipcpc=no&amp;showdeleted=yes&amp;indexes=no&amp;headings=yes&amp;notes=yes&amp;direction=o2n&amp;initial=A&amp;cwid=none&amp;tree=no&amp;searchmode=smart\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">IPC<\/a>, or<br>More on <a href=\"https:\/\/worldwide.espacenet.com\/classification?locale=en_EP\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CPC<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is IPC and CPC? 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