What does the patent ipc classification number mean?

Legal analysis: The patent classification number IPC has made an indelible contribution to the organization, management and retrieval of massive patent documents. Due to the continuous emergence of new technologies, the number of patent documents increases by about 6.5438+0.5 million, or about 50 million. According to the calculation of 69,000 groups in the 7th edition, each group contains more than 700 documents on average.

Legal basis: People's Republic of China (PRC) Patent Law.

Article 2 Inventions and creations mentioned in this Law refer to inventions, utility models and designs.

Invention refers to a new technical scheme proposed for a product, method or its improvement.

Utility model refers to a new practical technical scheme for the shape, structure or combination of products.

Appearance design refers to a new design that is aesthetically pleasing and suitable for industrial application, which is made on the shape, pattern or their combination of products and all or part of the combination of colors, shapes and patterns.

Article 11 After the patent right for invention and utility model is granted, except as otherwise provided in this Law, no unit or individual may exploit the patent without the permission of the patentee, that is, it may not manufacture, use, promise to sell, sell or import the patented product for production and business purposes, nor may it use the patented method and use, promise to sell, sell or import the product directly obtained according to the patented method.

After the design patent is granted, no unit or individual may exploit its patent without the permission of the patentee, that is, it may not manufacture, promise to sell, sell or import its patented product for production and business purposes.