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United States Patent Office

The Classification of Patents

  • eadyidihhas quoted6 years ago
    several different bases
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    Patent Office classification
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    facts or materials pertinent to that subject be so marshaled and arranged that those most pertinent to it may appear to the mind in some form of juxtaposition. It is the purpose of the Patent Office classification to divide and arrange the body and multitudinous units of the useful arts so that, having the question of novelty of any defined means to answer, one may with reasonable assurance approach that portion of the rank of arts in which it will be found if it is not new, and in propinquity to which will also be found those means that bear the closest resemblances to that sought for, the resemblances of other units growing less in proportion to their distance therefrom.
    Success in the fundamental aim of facilitating adequate search should evidently at the same time reduce proportionately the danger that interfering applications will be overlooked and also effect a distribution of labor favorable to the acquisition of special skill.
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    "A scientific classification is a series of divisions so arranged as best to facilitate the complete and separate study of the several groups which are the result of the divisions as well as of the entire subject under investigation." (Fowler, Inductive Logic.)
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    diversified useful arts
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    only to illustrate general principles.
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    have not been materially different in principle from the United States Patent Office classifications of the past.
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    correcting rather than planning anew
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    foreign patent offices
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    The classification of 1872 was not exhaustive
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