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Internati<strong>on</strong>al Patent Classificati<strong>on</strong><br />

• In-depth classificati<strong>on</strong> assigned by patent offices<br />

around the world<br />

• 5 level hierarchy covering all technologies<br />

• Top level split in<str<strong>on</strong>g>to</str<strong>on</strong>g> 8 secti<strong>on</strong>s (A-H)<br />

• DWPI Format<br />

– ANNA-NNNN/NNN /IPC<br />

• <strong>STN</strong> format<br />

– ANNANNNN-NNN /IPC<br />

• IPCs are searchable in DWPI back <str<strong>on</strong>g>to</str<strong>on</strong>g> 1963<br />

Note: an <strong>on</strong>line IPC thesaurus is available in all <strong>STN</strong> patent files.<br />

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