International Patent Classification (IPC) - IT support area - Edition 20080101 - 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-20080101_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	16	84	84	1'103	1'113	1'343	7'290	2'446	8'403
B	37	37	165	167	1'974	2'170	2'361	14'570	4'335	16'740
C	21	21	91	93	1'326	1'348	1'124	13'121	2'450	14'469
D	9	9	39	39	349	350	179	2'611	528	2'961
E	8	8	31	31	318	319	454	2'900	772	3'219
F	18	18	95	97	1'049	1'062	858	7'297	1'907	8'359
G	14	14	79	79	679	679	1'862	6'789	2'541	7'468
H	6	6	49	49	516	521	1'862	6'821	2'378	7'342
Total	129	129	633	639	7'314	7'562	10'043	61'399	17'357	68'961

 

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