International Patent Classification (IPC) - IT support area - Edition 20070101 - Statistics
IPC-8 Statistics
See detailed definitions of IPC-8 statistics: IPCR_ statistics-specification_V1.05.doc (MS-Word).
See detailed IPC-8 statistics figures: IPCR_ statistics-20070101_V1.05.doc
Summary table:
Section
No. of classes
No. of subclasses
No. of main groups
No. of subgroups
Total no. of groups
CL
AL
CL
AL
CL
AL
CL
AL
CL
AL
A
16
84
84
1'093
1'104
1'343
7'327
2'436
8'431
B
37
37
165
167
1'778
1'974
2'361
14'570
4'139
16'544
C
21
21
91
93
1'304
1'326
1'124
13'121
2'428
14'447
D
9
9
39
39
348
349
179
2'611
527
2'960
E
8
8
31
31
317
318
454
2'900
771
3'218
F
18
18
95
97
1'036
1'037
858
7'297
1'894
8'334
G
14
14
79
79
679
692
1'862
6'789
2'541
7'481
H
6
6
49
49
511
516
1'866
6'845
2'377
7'361
Total
129
129
633
639
7'066
7'316
10'047
61'460
17'113
68'776
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