A
SECTION A — HUMAN NECESSITIES
  
AGRICULTURE
 A01
AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
 A01B
SOIL WORKING IN AGRICULTURE OR FORESTRY; PARTS, DETAILS, OR ACCESSORIES OF AGRICULTURAL MACHINES OR IMPLEMENTS, IN GENERAL (making or covering furrows or holes for sowing, planting or manuring A01C 5/00; soil working for engineering purposes E01, E02, E21)

 A01C
PLANTING; SOWING; FERTILISING (combined with general working of soil A01B 49/04; parts, details or accessories of agricultural machines or implements, in general A01B 51/00-A01B 75/00)

 A01D
HARVESTING; MOWING

 A01F
PROCESSING OF HARVESTED PRODUCE; HAY OR STRAW PRESSES; DEVICES FOR STORING AGRICULTURAL OR HORTICULTURAL PRODUCE (devices for topping or skinning onions or flower bulbs A23N 15/08)

 A01G
HORTICULTURE; CULTIVATION OF VEGETABLES, FLOWERS, RICE, FRUIT, VINES, HOPS, OR SEAWEED; FORESTRY; WATERING (picking of fruits, vegetables, hops, or the like A01D 46/00; devices for topping or skinning onions or flower bulbs A23N 15/08; propagating unicellular algae C12N 1/12; plant cell culture C12N 5/00)

 A01H
NEW PLANTS

 A01J
MANUFACTURE OF DAIRY PRODUCTS (preservation, pasteurisation, sterilisation of milk products A23; for chemical matters, see subclass A23C)

 A01K
ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; CARE OF BIRDS, FISHES, INSECTS; FISHING
 A01K

Note(s)

This subclass covers equipment for the care or culture of all living creatures except human beings, or for obtaining their products, unless provided for elsewhere, e.g. milking A01J, shoeing animals A01L, veterinary devices A61D, culture of bacteria or the like C12.


 A01L
SHOEING OF ANIMALS

 A01M
CATCHING OR TRAPPING OF ANIMALS (apiculture A01K 47/00-A01K 59/00; fishing A01K 69/00-A01K 97/00; pesticides A01N); APPARATUS FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF NOXIOUS ANIMALS OR NOXIOUS PLANTS (equipment fitted in or to aircraft for dropping or releasing powdered, liquid or gaseous matter, e.g. pesticides, herbicides, B64D 1/16)

 A01N
PRESERVATION OF BODIES OF HUMANS OR ANIMALS OR PLANTS OR PARTS THEREOF; BIOCIDES, e.g. AS DISINFECTANTS, AS PESTICIDES, AS HERBICIDES (preparations for medical, dental, or toilet purposes A61K; methods of disinfection or sterilisation in general, apparatus therefor A61L); PEST REPELLANTS OR ATTRACTANTS (decoys A01M 31/06; medicinal preparations A61K); PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS (compounds per se C01, C07, C08; fertilisers C05; soil conditioners or stabilisers C09K 17/00)
 A01N

Note(s)

  1. This sub-class covers compositions, physical forms, methods of application of specific materials or the use of single compounds or compositions. [3]
  2. This subclass does not cover materials which affect the growth of a plant solely by supplying nutrients, i.e. plant food, ordinarily required for growth or materials which are used to prevent or cure mineral deficiencies in plants, e.g. addition of iron chelates to cure iron chlorosis, which materials are covered by class C05[3]
  3. In this subclass, the following expression is used with the meaning indicated:
    • "plant growth regulators" are those materials which alter the plant through a chemical modification of the plant metabolism, such as auxins. [3]
  4. In addition to biocides, pest repellants or attractants, or plant growth regulators — which are to be classified as stated in the Notes before group A01N 25/00— materials, other than grafting wax, which are not characterised as fertiliser compositions (class C05) or adhesives or paint compositions (class C09), but which are characterised by their chemical composition and are used to treat growing plants, e.g. to protect them from adverse conditions, are classified in groups A01N 25/00-A01N 65/00 as if their components were active ingredients (mechanical devices used in agriculture or horticulture, see the relevant subclass, e.g. A01G, A01M). [3]