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Nanotechnology Working Group
Inventorise and tag nanotechnology applications in
EPO.
Create/increase awareness in EPO about
nanotechnology.
Serve as experts/switchboard for examiners having
difficult/interdisciplinary nanotechnology applications.
Harmonise nanotechnology practice and
classification with other patent offices (JPO,
USPTO).
Cooperate with and help external parties.
3rd Int'l Dialogue on Responsible R&D of Nanotech
Classification & Tagging
CLASSIFICATION TAGGING
SECTION A
SECTION B
SECTION C
SECTION D
SECTION E
SECTION F
SECTION G
SECTION H
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SECTION Y
167
Nanotech patents scattered over IPC
SECTION A – HUMAN NECESSITIES
SECTION B – PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
SECTION C – CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
SECTION D – TEXTILES; PAPER
SECTION E – FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
SECTION F – MECHANICAL ENGINEERING;
SECTION G – PHYSICS
SECTION H – ELECTRICITY
3rd Int'l Dialogue on Responsible R&D of Nanotech
Methodology
1. Identify nanotechnology classifiers
(about 50 out of 3700 examiners)
2. Nanotechnology classifiers identify all
ECLA entries falling under Y01N
definition (out of 130 000 ECLA entries)
3. Critial review of listed technologies by
VDI-TZ
(Technology competence centre of the German
Engineering Society)
4. Y01N-TAGGING code for nanotech
(120.000+ documents out of 31 million classified
docs)
3rd Int'l Dialogue on Responsible R&D of Nanotech