International Patent Classification (IPC) - IT support area - Edition 20160101 - Statistics
IPC Statistics
See detailed definitions of IPC statistics: IPC_statistics-specification_V2.2.doc (MS-Word).
See detailed IPC statistics figures: IPC_statistics-20160101_V2.0.doc
Summary table:
| Section | No. of classes | No. of subclasses | No. of main groups | No. of subgroups | Total no. of groups |
| A | 16 | 84 | 1'132 | 7'763 | 8'895 |
| B | 38 | 169 | 1'992 | 14'930 | 16'922 |
| C | 21 | 87 | 1'321 | 13'187 | 14'508 |
| D | 9 | 39 | 350 | 2'700 | 3'050 |
| E | 8 | 31 | 323 | 3'115 | 3'438 |
| F | 18 | 97 | 1'072 | 7'705 | 8'777 |
| G | 14 | 81 | 696 | 7'426 | 8'122 |
| H | 6 | 51 | 548 | 8'326 | 8'874 |
| Total | 130 | 639 | 7'434 | 65'152 | 72'586 |
Number of amendments of various types:
| Language |
M Modification (m-type) |
N New |
C Complex modification (c-type) |
D Deletion |
U Amendment which resulted in no change |
R Renumbering |
Total of amendments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EN | 130 | 1039 | 70 | 175 | 10 | 0 | 1424 |
| FR | 134 | 1039 | 88 | 175 | 6 | 0 | 1442 |
| Total | 264 | 2078 | 158 | 350 | 16 | 0 | 2866 |
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| Number of words included in the IPC Scheme in English | Number of words included in the IPC Scheme in French |