EPO and USPTO launched the Cooperative Patent Classification System

The CPC is the result of a partnership between the EPO and the USPTO in their joint effort to develop a common, internationally compatible classification system for technical documents, in particular patent publications, which will be used by both offices in the patent granting process.

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4 February 2015

Important notification regarding CPC for DocDB XML subscribers. More.

12 January 2015

Important notification regarding upcoming changes to the schema's (xsd) of the CPC scheme and definitions. More information.