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900 Prior Art, Classification, and Search

902.03(c) Classification Insight on USPTO Local Area Network (LAN)

The Classification Insight product on the USPTO LAN site is a custom browser containing the following documents in a full-text searchable hyperlinked format. It is accessed from the Patent Examiners Toolkit on their desktop workstation computers.

(A) Index to the U.S. Patent Classification (USPC) system

(B) USPC Manual of Classification (classification schedules) in hyperlinked and PDF formats.

(C) Classification Definitions in hyperlinked and PDF formats.

(D) USPC-to-IPC(7) Concordance,

(E) USPC-to-LOCARNO Concordance

(F) IPC (7) Schedules,

(G) IPC(7) Catchword Index

The product also includes shortcuts to the Classification Schedules and the Classification Definitions in Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF).

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