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FI/F-term - Japan Patent Office's Patent Classification Systems

Find information on the FI/F-term classification system used by the Japan Patent Office. Learn about the FI subdivisions, F-terms, and the Broad Facet system. Stay updated with the latest IPC revisions.

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FI/F-term - Japan Patent Office's Patent Classification Systems

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  1. FI/F-term February 2017 JAPAN PATENT OFFICE

  2. Index • Outline of FI/F-term • English Information on classification • PMGS and IPC-FI-CPC scheme parallel viewer • Revision and Reclassification • Current status of FI/F-term revision • Updating FI scheme according to the latest version of IPC

  3. Index • Outline of FI/F-term • English Information on classification • PMGS and IPC-FI-CPC scheme parallel viewer • Revision and Reclassification • Current status of FI/F-term revision • Updating FI scheme according to the latest version of IPC

  4. Patent Classification Systems in IPC and FI/F-term 4

  5. IPC 70,000 entries What is FI? Characteristics of FI FI (File Index) • Subdivision of IPC (around 190,000 items) • Covers all technical fields • Covers all JP patent documents • Backlog reclassification • Biannual revise to keep pace with technology development [Features] 190,000 entries

  6. FI - symbol • IPC symbol ex) G06F 9/00 • IPC symbol + extension symbol ex) G06F 9/00, 320 • IPC symbol + extension symbol + file discrimination symbol ex) G06F 9/00, 320 A • IPC symbol + file discrimination symbol ex) B60G 17/015 A example of FI subdivisions for G06F9/00

  7. What is F-term ? • The entire technical field of FI, which has section A to section H, is divided into about 2600 areas and the areas are called “theme” • About 1800 themes out of 2600 themes have “F-terms”, which are search keys and we analyze patent documents in each “theme”. • The F-term indexing system is based on multiple viewpoints differing from those in FI.

  8. What is F-term ? Sample of F-term List Subject of theme Theme Code FI Coverage Viewpoint

  9. What is BroadFacet? • JPO has a national classification Facet in additionto FI and F-term • Facet covers all the fields of FI(A section to H section) or the part of the fields of FI, e.g. plural of subclass or plural of group. Facet is able to set the coverage area larger than F-term • The Facet enables to prior art search of viewpoint differing from those in FI and F-term • Symbol of Broad Facet • Three Alphabet symbols • Leftmost symbol is “Z” • JPO has 14 Broad Facets including ZIT which is the patent classification regarding Internet of Things(IoT)

  10. File Index (FI) “theme” A front page of publication

  11. Index • Outline of FI/F-term • English Information on classification • PMGS and IPC-FI-CPC scheme parallel viewer • Revision and Reclassification • Current status of FI/F-term revision • Updating FI scheme according to the latest version of IPC

  12. JPO website on Classification http://www.jpo.go.jp/torikumi_e/searchportal_e/classification.htm

  13. PMGS (Patent Map Guidance) http://www.jpo.go.jp/torikumi_e/searchportal_e/classification.htm

  14. PMGS (Patent Map Guidance) https://www5.j-platpat.inpit.go.jp/pms/tokujitsu/pmgs_en/PMGS_EN_GM101_Top.action

  15. IPC-FI-CPC scheme parallel viewer http://www.jpo.go.jp/torikumi_e/searchportal_e/classification.htm

  16. IPC-FI-CPC scheme parallel viewer IPC CPC FI http://www.jpo.go.jp/cgi/cgi-bin/search-portal/narabe_tool_e/narabe_e.cgi

  17. IPC-FI-CPC parallel viewer Keyword searchable Link to the scheme http://www.jpo.go.jp/cgi/cgi-bin/search-portal/narabe_tool_e/narabe_e.cgi

  18. Index • Outline of FI/F-term • English Information on classification • PMGS and IPC-FI-CPC scheme parallel viewer • Revision and Reclassification • Current status of FI/F-term revision • Updating FI scheme according to the latest version of IPC

  19. JPO website on classification http://www.jpo.go.jp/torikumi_e/searchportal_e/classification.htm

  20. Index • Outline of FI/F-term • English Information on classification • PMGS and IPC-FI-CPC scheme parallel viewer • Revision and Reclassification • Current status of FI/F-term revision • Updating FI scheme according to the latest version of IPC

  21. Rate for FI corresponding to the latest IPC • Upon completion of FI revision inNov 2016, rate of FI adopting the latest IPC reached approximately 98.5 %.

  22. Thank you very much!

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