CLASSIFICATION OF PATENTS

By SovConn | April 21, 2014

classification of patents.Patents. 1. The sorting of inventions by type into broad classes and narrow subclasses, as an aid in patent searches. 2. Any one of the several classes into which the inventions are sorted. — Also termed (in both senses) office classification; (in sense 2) field of invention; field of search. [Blacks Law 8th]

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