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A patent application is a request pending at a patent office for the grant of a patent for an invention described in the patent specification [notes 1] and a set of one or more claims stated in a formal document, including necessary official forms and related correspondence.
[45] [46] Indian patent examiners have the higher workload and the pay is amongst the lowest. [47] While a patent examiner in the European Patent Office would handle less than seven patent applications per month and a USPTO examiner would handle eight applications per month, an Indian examiner reportedly handles at least 40 applications a month.
The number parameter must be the patent number or patent application publication number without any intervening commas or other punctuation (e.g. 2135432, not 2,135,432; likewise, 2005108455, not 2005/108455). You may need to experiment with the precise form for published US patent applications or PCT applications, which are slightly unusual.
The recommended use is the two-letter country code followed by the patent document number and then the kind code, e.g., "US 7,654,321 B1" for U.S. Patent No. 7,654,321 where there was no previously-published patent application publication, and "US 2003/1234567 A1" for U.S. Patent Application Publication No. 2003/1234567, published in 2003. [1]
The patent or patent application number (no punctuation is allowed at this time) string "application" (optional third parameter) Patent publication data such as author name and title (this does not affect the generated URL) The output is the patent number, and a link pointing to a permalink for the patent chosen.
The subclass is then followed by a 1- to 4-digit "group" number, an oblique stroke and a number of at least two digits representing a "main group" ("00") or "subgroup". A patent examiner assigns a classification to the patent application or other document at the most detailed level which is applicable to its contents.
The INID numbers are those within brackets, such as "(10)" before the patent number. INID is an acronym for Internationally agreed Numbers for the Identification of (bibliographic) Data . [ 1 ] INID codes are used by patent offices worldwide for indicating specific bibliographic data items on the title pages of patents and patent application ...
The International Patent Classification (IPC) is a hierarchical patent classification system used in over 100 countries to classify the content of patents in a uniform manner. It was created under the Strasbourg Agreement (1971), one of a number of treaties administered by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).