1. International Patent Classification from the Eighth Edition onward.
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Takamasa, Maruyama
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INTELLECTUAL property ,PATENTS ,PATENT law ,CLASSIFICATION ,COMMERCIAL law ,COPYRIGHT - Abstract
The first edition of the International Patent Classification was put into effect to adopt a unified patent classification system. It didn't seem, however, that the former editions of the IPC had sufficiently achieved such an objective. The eighth edition of the IPC, which was put into effect in January 2006, was designed to reform the IPC rules, taking into account the failures in the past, in order to accomplish the original target of the IPC. Then, we drastically changed its strategies for the purpose. This article gives an overview how the new IPC has been planned to achieve the original objective by comparing it with the former IPC. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2006
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