What are the goals of the IPC reform?
The following goals of the reform could be highlighted: – Separation of the IPC into a relatively stable core level and a dynamic advanced level. The advanced level will be the always current continuously updated IPC “edition”. – Setting-up a Master Classification Database, which could provided high prevision search facilities based upon only the current edition of the IPC – Adding an electronic layer to the IPC (the electronic layer is information published in the web version of the database, but not appearing in the paper publication); – Adding Definitions to the IPC (like the US Patent Classification system has extensive set of definitions) and other electronic explanatory information; What is the core level and how was it defined The core level is the relatively stable part of the IPC. According to the current expectations many offices will publish their documents using the core level IPC symbols. Small patent offices, patent offices in the developing countries will also use this “
