6 Ways To Guide Applications Under New Patent Classification

By Roberta Young and Brian Michaelis (June 28, 2021, 5:02 PM EDT) -- After 100 years of classifying patents using the U.S. Patent Classification, or USPC, system, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office replaced that system in late 2020. The change to the Cooperative Patent Classification, or CPC, system gives patent practitioners greater opportunity to potentially direct patent applications to art units by careful drafting in conjunction with an understanding of how the CPC functions....

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