Mergeflow Ag Blog Using patent classes to search for concepts

Patent classes allow patent examiners or other people to code patents according to their content. For example, patent classes make it clear whether a patent relates to agriculture, data processing, medical applications, chemistry, etc. (for more details, see Cooperative Patent Classification). Such a classification system is very useful for grouping documents by concept, for example. Unfortunately patent classes are only... Continue reading "Using patent classes to search for concepts"