The United States Patent Office and the European Patent Office are scheduled to launch the new cooperative patent classification system in January of 2013. In this presentation I will discuss the new classification system, how it differs from the current USPTO classification system, and how the new system will change classification searching for chemical and pharmaceutical information.

How will the new cooperative patent classification system change chemical patent searching?

244th National Meeting (2012)

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