patent classification

Cooperative Patent Classification – Time to prepare for the launch

By Troels Peter Rørdam | Posted on October 18, 2012

Almost a year ago I wrote on the Awapatent IP Blog about the efforts of the EPO and USPTO to harmonize their patent classification systems to form the Cooperative Patent Classification (in short CPC). The work is progressing, and it has now become time for an update. The CPC is now taking shape, and it has...

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