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IPC/CE/50/2
ORIGINAL: ENGLISH
DATE: MARCH 2, 2018

Special Union for the International Patent Classification

(IPC Union)
Committee of Experts

Fiftieth Session
Geneva, February 8 and 9, 2018

REPORT

adopted by the Committee of Experts

INTRODUCTION

1. The Committee of Experts of the IPC Union (hereinafter referred to as “the Committee”)
held its fiftieth session in Geneva on February 8 and 9, 2018. The following members of the
Committee were represented at the session: Australia, Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China,
Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Israel, Japan,
Mexico, Norway, Portugal, Republic of Korea, Romania, Russian Federation, Spain, Sweden,
Switzerland, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom
and United States of America (30). Lesotho, the United Arab Emirates, the Eurasian Patent
Organization (EAPO) and the European Patent Office (EPO) were also represented. The list of
participants appears as Annex I to this report.

2. The session was opened by Mr. F. Gurry, Director General, who welcomed the
participants. Mr. Gurry stressed the importance of the work of the Committee for the revision of
the IPC in the framework of the IPC Revision Roadmap and, in particular, in the areas of new
emerging technologies. He also emphasized the work done so far for the improvement of the
IPC-related IT systems and, in particular, of the Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based IT system, e.g.
the IPC Text Categorization (IPCCAT), which would tremendously help future classification as
well as reclassification for offices.
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OFFICERS

3. The Committee unanimously elected Mr. Pascal Weibel (Switzerland) as Chair and
Messrs. Klaus Höfken (Germany) and Christopher Kim (United States of America) as
Vice-Chairs.

4. Ms. XU Ning (WIPO) acted as Secretary of the session.

ADOPTION OF THE AGENDA

5. The Committee unanimously adopted the agenda, which appears as Annex II to

this report.

6. As decided by the Governing Bodies of WIPO at their tenth series of meetings held from
September 24 to October 2, 1979 (see document AB/X/32, paragraphs 51 and 52), the report of
this session reflects only the conclusions of the Committee (decisions, recommendations,
opinions, etc.) and does not, in particular, reflect the statements made by any participant,
except where a reservation in relation to any specific conclusion of the Committee was
expressed or repeated after the conclusion was reached.

REPORT ON THE PROGRESS ON THE IPC REVISION PROGRAM

7. Discussions were based on Annex 10 to project file CE 462 prepared by the International
Bureau, containing a status report on the activities of the IPC Revision Working Group
(hereinafter referred to as the “Working Group”), in particular on the IPC Revision Program.

8. The Committee noted that the average number of revision projects per year in all technical
fields from IPC-2016.01 to IPC-2018.01 was at the same level. The total number of revision
projects increased since IPC-2017.01, particularly in the electrical field.

9. The Committee also noted that the number of C projects decreased, while the number of
F projects increased since IPC-2017.01; the number of new F projects would further increase in
the future. The number of new entries which entered into force in IPC-2018.01 was
considerably higher than that in IPC-2017.01. The Committee also noted an increase of the
duration of the IPC-phase period since IPC-2017.01.

10. The Committee further noted that IPC Definitions had been created to a greater extent
based on revision projects as well as on systematic maintenance projects of the removal of non-
limiting references from the IPC scheme and their integration into IPC Definitions.

11. The International Bureau delivered a more detailed overview of maintenance projects in
the status report with a distinction between ad hoc and systematic maintenance projects.

12. The International Bureau was invited to prepare a breakdown of new entries per technical
field in the status report for consideration by the Committee at its next session, to help planning
the workload of the Working Group among technical fields.

13. The Committee expressed its satisfaction with the work done by the Working Group and
encouraged offices to actively participate in the development of the IPC revision and, in
particular, under the Updated IPC Revision Roadmap.
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REPORT ON THE PROGRESS OF THE CPC AND FI REVISION PROGRAMS

14. The United States of America and the EPO gave a joint oral presentation on the recent
developments concerning the CPC. Japan presented an oral report on the progress of
FI/F-Term.

15. The Committee was informed that the frequency of CPC releases would be four times for
2018, namely January, February, May and August 2018, and a pre-release would be made
available one month before each entry into force. It was foreseen that the compilation of
changes of the CPC and its Cross-Reference List (CRL) would be available soon. The
Committee also noted a scenario by April 2019, when the CPC symbols provided by offices
using the CPC would be kept at family level, instead of at document level as in the
current practice.

16. The Committee was informed that the frequency of FI revisions would be twice per year,
i.e. in June and November. The Committee was also informed about the use of “Broad Facet”
in Japanese patent classification in addition to FI and F-term covering cross-cutting
technologies. It was further informed about the availability of information in both English and
Japanese on the JPO website on classification, in particular the IPC-FI-CPC scheme parallel
viewer and the FI/F-Term revision information. The Committee was also informed that the
alignment of the FI with the latest version of the IPC had reached 99.3% in November 2017
and the Committee expressed its gratitude to the JPO for its efforts to align the FI with the
latest IPC.

17. The Committee shared the understanding that the coherency between the IPC and other
Classifications was critically important and the efforts to enhance and maintain such coherency
should be continued.

AMENDMENTS TO THE GUIDE TO THE IPC AND OTHER BASIC IPC DOCUMENTS
18. Discussions were based on project files CE 455 and, in particular, on Annexes 53 and 55,
submitted by the International Bureau and Sweden respectively, containing compiled
amendments to the “Guidelines for Revision of the IPC” (Guidelines), which integrated
comments by offices.

19. The Committee adopted, with some modifications, the amendments to paragraphs 13, 17,
27 and 40 of the Guidelines, as well as the introduction of new paragraphs 20bis and 51bis and
a new Appendix VII relating to “Guidelines for converting existing classification schemes to the
IPC” into the Guidelines, which appear in Annexes 59 and 60 to the project file.

20. The Committee also adopted the integration of the IPC Definition Template into
Appendix VI of the Guidelines, as adopted by the Committee at its 49th session (see
paragraph 25 of document IPC/CE/49/2).

21. The Committee further invited the International Bureau to review the Guide to the IPC and
the Guidelines with respect to the appropriate use of “”Definitions” and “definitions” and to
prepare a proposal, where needed, for electronic adoption by the Committee, which would
appear in Annexes 34 and 35 to project file CE 454 and Annexes 61 and 62 to project
file CE 455.

22. With respect to paragraph 15 in Appendix VII concerning the proper use of the
precedence references in the scheme, Sweden was invited to review the current paragraph 38
of the Guidelines and propose amendments where needed for the consideration by the
Committee at its next session.
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23. The Committee noted that there was a desire to include, in the Guide to the IPC, the
description concerning the IPC revision cycle and the IPC reclassification timeframes. The
Committee therefore invited proposals in that respect for consideration at its next session.

UPDATING OF IPC GREEN INVENTORY

24. Discussions were based on project files CE 509, in particular on Annex 1 including a
proposal prepared by the International Bureau relating to the updating of the IPC
Green Inventory.

25. The Committee noted that the IPC Green Inventory had not been updated since its
publication in 2011 and the strong desire from the IPC user community to keep the Inventory up
to date. The Committee expressed its gratitude to the International Bureau for its initiative and
effort in the updating of the IPC Green Inventory based on the latest IPC 2018.01. The
Committee further invited the International Bureau to perform similar update of the Inventory
each time a new version of the IPC enters into force.

26. The Committee also noted the strong desire from the IPC user community to make better
and more efficient use of the IPC Green Inventory in searching for Environmentally Sound
Technologies (EST), as well as in preparing statistics in the relevant technical fields.

27. In that respect, discussions were based on a proposed scenario by the International
Bureau in the said Annex 1, i.e. the possibility to create a new universal indexing/tagging
scheme in the IPC to cover, as much as possible, parts of the EST, and to cover, in the future,
new emerging technologies (NET), e.g. Artificial Intelligence (AI). The new scheme would be
independent from the existing IPC scheme and would be universally applied.

28. The Committee agreed that the issue should be considered and further investigated
immediately in view of the strong desire from the IPC user community and the rapid
development of NET. Having foreseen the urgent nature of the task, the Committee decided to
establish an Experts Group in that respect to consider the need for a new universal
indexing/tagging scheme in the IPC covering cross-cutting technologies in general, in which the
following offices volunteered to participate: Australia, Brazil, China, Japan, Norway, Portugal,
Republic of Korea, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States of America and EPO. The
International Bureau would also participate with a special status to ensure coordination and
Secretariat tasks. The Committee agreed that its other members could join the Experts Group
at any later stage. The EPO was appointed as leading Office of the Experts Group.

29. The Committee invited the members of the Experts Group to prepare a report to the
Working Group at an appropriate time, bearing in mind that the required reclassification
workload must be avoid or, at least, minimized.

30. The Committee recommended that the Experts Group conduct its work independently by
any feasible means, e.g. by WIPO IPC e-forum, IPC External Wiki, exchanging emails, video
conferences, physical meetings, etc. Travel constraints, however, should be taken into account
when conducting physical meetings.

HANDOVER OF THE WORKING LISTS MANAGEMENT FROM THE EPO TO WIPO

31. The International Bureau delivered a presentation on the status of handover of working
Lists management from the EPO to WIPO and associated IPC working List Management
(IPCWLM) project.

32. The International Bureau also informed the Committee about the main outcomes of the
Task Force on IPCWLM business requirements which took place earlier in the week and its
conclusions in Annex 14 to project file CE 492.
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33. The Committee adopted all recommendations of the Task Force and, in particular, the
proposal of IPC reclassification lifecycle and the proposed approach for the legacy versions of
the IPC.

REPORT ON IPC-RELATED IT SYSTEMS

34. The International Bureau delivered a presentation on the recent developments in AI-based
automatic text categorization in the IPC (IPCCAT-Neural) in English and French.

35. The International Bureau informed the Committee that IPCCAT-Neural was able to predict
among the 73,000 entries of the full IPC with 80% accuracy, which was similar to that previously
achieved at main-group level only.

36. The International Bureau emphasized the importance of IPCCAT-Neural training data
(WIPO-DELTA) based on DOCDB XML data processing and computing of both CPC and IPC
symbols and proposed to make this collection available upon request to research institutes as
incentive for further progress in this domain.

37. The International Bureau also informed the Committee about the feasibility of expanding
the scope of IPCCAT-Neural application to other languages through the use of machine
translation, e.g. “WIPO Translate”, an instant translation tool, specially designed for patent
documents. The Committee noted that such expansion was currently under progress.

38. The International Bureau therefore proposed that the Committee at its next session would
consider the integration of IPCCAT-Neural technology into the future IPCWLMS as a potential
alternative to replace the default transfer currently applied in the last stage of the IPC
reclassification process.

39. The Committee adopted the changes in IPC Master Files and their by-products
recommended by the International Bureau in Annexes 1 and 2 of project file CE 501, which
would enter into force in the official publication of IPC-2019.01.

40. The Committee noted the changes in the presentation and layout of IPC Definitions
recommended by the International Bureau in Annex 3 of project file CE 501 and agreed that
presentation and layout of definitions should allow for structured sections or subsections by
adding headings for one or more paragraphs, for emphasized text by using bold, italics and
underlined text. The Committee decided to create a maintenance project M 787 with the
International Bureau as Rapporteur to further review the cases with non-standard expressions
for keywords and propose solution to them. The Committee invited the International Bureau to
further investigate the feasibility to implement the adopted changes in the presentation and
layout of IPC Definitions and to prepare a proposal where needed for electronic adoption by the
Committee at a later stage.

41. The International Bureau also delivered a presentation on the recent achievements and
developments in the IPC Revision Management Solution (IPCRMS), in particular on the
successful preparation and publication of IPC-2017.01 and IPC-2018.01 by using IPCRMS.
The Committee was also informed that the IPCRMS was ready to allow the use of new
indicators (“T” and “L”) as adopted at its 49th session in paragraph 122 of the Guidelines and the
implementation of the new function of scheme “Import/Export”.

42. The Committee repeated its invitation to Offices to make better use of the IPCRMS for
drafting IPC revision proposals and submitting comments.
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SURVEY ON THE IPC-RELATED IT TOOLS

43. The International Bureau made a presentation on the results of the evaluation on
program 12 and its recommendation regarding IPC-related IT tools, and presented the proposal
concerning the time frame of the recommended survey, based on the working document in
Annex 2 to project file CE 509.

44. The Committee agreed with the proposed time frame and its cooperation for the survey.

45. This report was unanimously

adopted by the Committee of Experts
by electronic means on March 2, 2018.

[Annexes follow]
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ANNEXE I/ANNEX I

LISTE DES PARTICIPANTS/

LIST OF PARTICIPANTS

I. ÉTATS MEMBRES/MEMBER STATES

(dans l’ordre alphabétique des noms français des États/

in alphabetical order of the names in French of the States)

ALLEMAGNE/GERMANY

Klaus HÖFKEN (Mr.), Classification Specialist, Classification Systems, German Patent and
Trade Mark Office (DPMA), Munich

AUSTRALIE/AUSTRALIA

Matthew FORWARD (Mr.), Classification Coordination, Department of Industry, IP Australia,

Canberra

AUTRICHE/AUSTRIA

Burkhard SCHLECHTER (Mr.), Classification Expert, Austrian Patent Office, Vienna

BRÉSIL/BRAZIL

Catia VALDMAN (Ms.), Head of Telecommunications Division, National Institute of Industrial

Property (INPI), Ministry of Industry, Foreign Trade and Services, Rio de Janeiro

BULGARIE/BULGARIA

Andriana YONCHEVA (Ms.), First Secretary, Permanent Mission, Sofia

CANADA

Nancy BEAUCHEMIN (Mme), gestionnaire de programme - International, Direction des brevets,

Office de la propriété intellectuelle du Canada, Gatineau

CHINE/CHINA

LI Xiao (Ms.), Principal Staff Delegation, Patent Documentation Department, State Intellectual
Property Office of the People's Republic of China (SIPO), Beijing

MA Xiaomei (Ms.), Classification Examiner, China Patent Development Corporation, State

Intellectual Property Office of the People's Republic of China (SIPO), Beijing
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DANEMARK/DENMARK

Sven Nytoft RASMUSSEN (Mr.), Senior Examiner, Danish Patent and Trademark Office,
Ministry of Industry, Business and Financial Affairs, Taastrup

ESPAGNE/SPAIN

Elena PINA (Sra.), Técnica Superior Examinadora de Patentes, Área de Patentes Físicas y
Eléctricas, Departamento de Patentes e Información Tecnológica, Oficina Española de
Patentes y Marcas (Ministerio de Energía, Turismo y Agenda Digital), Madrid

ESTONIE/ESTONIA

Tiina LILLEPOOL (Ms.), Principal Examiner, The Estonian Patent Office, Tallinn

ÉTATS-UNIS D'AMÉRIQUE/UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Christopher KIM (Mr.), Director, United States Department of Commerce, United States Patent
and Trademark Office (USPTO), Alexandria

Dimple BODAWALA (Ms.), International Patent Classifier, United States Department of

Commerce, United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), Alexandria

EX-RÉPUBLIQUE YOUGOSLAVE DE MACÉDOINE/THE FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC

OF MACEDONIA

Ali ASANI (Mr.), State Advisor, State Office of Industrial Property (SOIP), Skopje

FÉDÉRATION DE RUSSIE/RUSSIAN FEDERATION

Zoya VOYTSEKHOVSKAYA (Ms.), Senior Researcher, Federal Institute of Industrial Property

(FIPS), Federal Service for Intellectual Property (Rospatent), Moscow

Olga TIKHOMIROVA (Ms.), Researcher, Federal Institute of Industrial Property (FIPS), Federal
Service for Intellectual Property (Rospatent), Moscow

FINLANDE/FINLAND

Antti HOIKKALA (Mr.), Senior Patent Examiner, Finnish Patent and Registration Office (PRH),
Helsinki

Pekka LAIHANEN (Mr.), Patent Examiner, Finnish Patent and Registration Office (PRH),
Helsinki

FRANCE

Magalie MATHON (Mme), chargée de mission CIB, Département des brevets, Institut national
de la propriété industrielle (INPI), Courbevoie
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GRÈCE/GREECE

Evangelos GIANNAKOPOULOS (Mr.), Senior Examiner, Patent Office Industrial Property

Organization (OBI), Athens

Efstratios KOUTIVAS (Mr.), Head of Search, Patent Office, Industrial Property

Organization (OBI), Maroussi, Athens

IRLANDE/IRELAND

Fergal BRADY (Mr.), Examiner of Patents, Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation,
Patents Office, Kilkenny

ISRAËL/ISRAEL

Orit REGEV (Ms.), Deputy Superintendent of Examiners, Israel Patent office, Ministry of Justice,
Jerusalem

Yoav SIN MALA (Mr.), Examiner, Israel Patent Office, Ministry of Justice, Jerusalem

JAPON/JAPAN

Yoshiaki KODACHI (Mr.), Director, Examination Policy Planning Office, Administrative Affairs
Division, Japan Patent Office (JPO), Tokyo

Yuka ONIZUKA (Ms.), Assistant Director, Examination Policy Planning Office, Administrative
Affairs Division, Japan Patent Office (JPO), Tokyo

Hiroki WATANABE (Mr.), Deputy Director, Examination Policy Planning Office, Administrative
Affairs Division, Japan Patent Office (JPO), Tokyo

MEXIQUE/MEXICO

Maria del Pilar ESCOBAR BAUTISTA (Sra.), Consejera, Misión Permanente, Ginebra

NORVÈGE/NORWAY

Natalie SCHLAF (Ms.), Chief Examiner, Industrial Chemistry, Patentstyret (Norwegian Industrial
Property Office) (NIPO), Oslo

PORTUGAL

Roxana ONOFREI (Ms.), Patent Examiner, Trademarks and Patents Directorate, Patents and
Utility Models Department, Ministry of Justice, Portuguese Institute of Industrial Property, Lisbon
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RÉPUBLIQUE DE CORÉE/REPUBLIC OF KOREA

KIM Jieon (Ms.), Deputy Director, Patent Examination Policy Bureau, Korean Intellectual
Property Office (KIPO), Daejeon

LEE Eunkyu (Mr.), Deputy Director, Communication Network Examination Division, Korean
Intellectual Property Office (KIPO), Daejeon

RÉPUBLIQUE TCHÈQUE/CZECH REPUBLIC

Eva SCHNEIDEROVA (Ms.), Director, Patent Department, Industrial Property Office of the
Czech Republic, Prague

Jarmila AVRATOVA (Ms.), Engineer, Patent Information Department, Industrial Property Office,
Prague

Martin TOČIK, Third Secretary, Permanent Mission

ROUMANIE/ROMANIA

Diana NIŢĂ (Ms.), Examiner, Mechanics Substantive Examination Division, Patents and
Innovation Support Directorate, Romanian State Office for Inventions and Trademarks (OSIM),
Bucharest

Ana PREJBEANU (Ms.), Examiner, Patents Administration Division, Patents and Innovation
Support Directorate, Romanian State Office for Inventions and Trademarks (OSIM), Bucharest

ROYAUME-UNI/UNITED KINGDOM

Jeremy COWEN (Mr.), Senior Examinier - Classification, UK Intellectual Property Office,

Newport

SUÈDE/SWEDEN

Anders BRUUN (Mr.), Patent Expert, Swedish Patent and Registration Office (SPRO),
Stockholm

SUISSE/SWITZERLAND

Pascal WEIBEL (M.), chef Examen, Division des brevets, Institut fédéral de la propriété
intellectuelle, Berne

TURQUIE/TURKEY

Atalay Berk DAMGACIOĞLU (Mr.), Industrial Property Expert, Patent Department, Turkish
Patent and Trademark Office, Ankara

Sermin SAATCIOGLU (Ms.), Industrial Property Expert, Department for European Union and
International Affairs, Turkish Patent and Trademark Office, Ankara
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UKRAINE

Andrew KUDIN (Mr.), General Director, Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of
Ukraine, State Enterprise "Ukrainian Intellectual Property Institute" (Ukrpatent), Kyiv

Yurii KUCHYNSKYI (Mr.), Head of Department, Department of International Relations and

Public Affairs, Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine, State Enterprise
"Ukrainian Intellectual Property Institute" (Ukrpatent), Kyiv

Dmytro CHERKASHYN (Mr.), Director, Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine,
State Enterprise "Ukrainian Intellectual Property Institute" (Ukrpatent), Kyiv

II. ÉTATS OBSERVATEURS/OBSERVER STATES

ÉMIRATS ARABES UNIS/UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

Ali AL HOSANI (Mr.), Under Secretary Assistant, Intellectual Property Sector, Ministry of
Economy, Abu Dhabi

Abdelsalam AL ALI (Mr.), Director/Representative, Office of the United Arab Emirates to the
World Trade Organization, Geneva

Khalfan AL SUWAIDI (Mr.), Director of Patent Department, Intellectual Property Sector, Ministry
of Economy, Abu Dhabi

Shaima AL-AKEL (Ms.), International Organizations Executive, Office of the United Arab
Emirates to the World Trade Organization, Geneva

LESOTHO

Seeeng Iris MOTIKOE (Ms.), First Secretary, Permanent Mission, Geneva

III. ORGANISATIONS INTERNATIONALES INTERGOUVERNEMENTALES/

INTERNATIONAL INTERGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS

ORGANISATION EURASIENNE DES BREVETS (OEAB)/EURASIAN PATENT

ORGANIZATION (EAPO)

Vasily TRUBACHEV (Mr.), Principal Specialist, Procedure Automation System Maintenance

Division, Moscow
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ORGANISATION EUROPÉENNE DES BREVETS (OEB)/EUROPEAN PATENT

ORGANISATION (EPO)

José ALCONCHEL (Mr.), Director, Classification and Documentation, Rijswijk

Pierre HELD (Mr.), Project Manager CPC at National Offices and Working Group 1,
Classification and Documentation, Rijswijk

IV. BUREAU/OFFICERS

Président/Chair: Pascal WEIBEL (M./Mr.) (Suisse/Switzerland)

Vice-présidents/Vice-Chairs: Klaus HÖFKEN (M./Mr.) Allemagne/Germany)

Christopher KIM (M./Mr.) (États-Unis d'Amérique/
United States of America)

Secrétaire/Secretary: XU Ning (Mme/Ms.) (OMPI/WIPO)

V. BUREAU INTERNATIONAL DE L’ORGANISATION MONDIALE DE LA PROPRIÉTÉ

INTELLECTUELLE (OMPI)/INTERNATIONAL BUREAU OF THE WORLD
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ORGANIZATION (WIPO)

Francis GURRY (M./Mr.), directeur général/Director General

Yoshiyuki TAKAGI (M./Mr.), sous-directeur général/Assistant Director General

Kunihiko FUSHIMI (M./Mr.), directeur de la Division des classifications internationales et des

normes/Director, International Classifications and Standards Division

Patrick FIÉVET (M./Mr.), chef de la Section des systèmes informatiques/Head, IT Systems

Section

XU Ning (Mme/Ms.), chef de la Section de la classification internationale des brevets (CIB)/

Head, International Patent Classification (IPC) Section

Rastislav MARČOK (M./Mr.), administrateur principal de la classification des brevets de la

Section de la classification internationale des brevets (CIB)/Senior Patent Classification Officer,
International Patent Classification (IPC) Section

[L’annexe II suit/Annex II follows]

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ANNEX II

AGENDA

1. Opening of the session

2. Election of a Chair and two Vice-Chairs

3. Adoption of the agenda

See present document.

4. Report on the progress of the IPC revision program

See project CE 462.

5. Report on the progress of the CPC and FI revision programs

Reports by the EPO and the USPTO on the CPC and by the JPO on the FI.

6. Amendments to the Guide to the IPC and other basic IPC documents
See projects CE 454 and CE 455.

7. Updating of IPC Green Inventory

See project CE 509.

8. Handover of the Working Lists management from the EPO to WIPO

See project CE 472.

9. Report on IPC-related IT systems

(a) Presentation by the International Bureau
(b) Amendments to Master Files
See project CE 501.
10. Survey on the IPC-related IT tools
See project CE 509.

11. Adoption of the report

12. Closing of the Session

[End of Annex II and of document]