Press releases

• USPTO and KIPO Announce Launch of Cooperative Patent Classification System Pilot 

• Europe and China agree to use same patent classification system (CPC)

• Joint video message of Mssrs Battistelli and Kappos on the occasion of the launch of CPC

• EPO and USPTO announce launch of Cooperative Patent Classification system

http://www.epo.org/news-issues/press/releases/archive/2013/20130102.html

http://www.uspto.gov/news/pr/2013/13-01.jsp

• EPO and USPTO publish advance version of CPC scheme and definitions - EPO press release

http://www.epo.org/news-issues/news/2012/20121001.html

• USPTO and EPO Publish Advance Version of Cooperative Patent Classification System Ahead of January Launch

http://www.uspto.gov/news/pr/2012/12-61.jsp

• USPTO and EPO work toward joint classification system:

http://www.epo.org/news-issues/press/releases/archive/2010/20101025.html

• EPO and USPTO reach agreement on principles of Cooperative Patent Classification system:

http://www.uspto.gov/news/pr/2011/11_09.jsp

http://www.epo.org/news-issues/news/2011/20110204.html

• Moving towards a global patent system:

http://www.epo.org/news-issues/issues/classification/classification-ip5.html

http://www.epo.org/papers/classification-ip5/index.html