Section: Introduction to the CPC | Patent Classification

Section outline

This course is an introduction to the Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC). Designed for the needs of the general user, it contains an overview of the CPC's structure and naming conventions, along with information about the transition periods from existing systems and the main differences when searching with the CPC.
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  Introduction to Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) Streaming
  
  Here you find the recording of a webinar presented by Antony Fonderson, EPO, on 18 November 2015.

This course belongs to LP3:

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Patent Classification
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Using CPC in classification
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Search strategies
4

Searching prior art based on patent applications
5

Events: Search Matters

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Course content
- Introduction to the CPC
- Y02 - climate change mitigation technologies

Tuition Fees: 0 €
Knowledge: Entry
Duration: 5 h

This collection of modules gives an introduction on the Cooperative Patent Classification system, its structure and naming conventions and on Y02, the new classification scheme for climate change mitigation technologies.

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