The Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) is a patent classification system, developed jointly by the European Patent Office (EPO) and the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). It is based on the previous European classification system (ECLA), which itself was a version of the International Patent Classification (IPC) system. The CPC patent classification system has been used by EPO and USPTO since 1st January, 2013.

Prefix
cpc
Keywords
atmospheric science earth science geodesy geography hydrogeology meteorology
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Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in Cooperative Patent Classification should match this regular expression:
^([A-H,Y]|[A-H, Y]\d{2}|[A-H, Y]\d{2}[A-Z]|[A-H, Y]\d{2}[A-Z]\d{1,3}|[A-H, Y]\d{2}[A-Z]\d{1,3}(\/)?\d{2,})$

Example Local Unique Identifier
A01M1/026   Resolve
Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Cooperative Patent Classification should match this regular expression:
^cpc:([A-H,Y]|[A-H, Y]\d{2}|[A-H, Y]\d{2}[A-Z]|[A-H, Y]\d{2}[A-Z]\d{1,3}|[A-H, Y]\d{2}[A-Z]\d{1,3}(\/)?\d{2,})$

Example CURIE
cpc:A01M1/026
Metaregistry Cooperative Patent Classification

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 4 mappings to external registries for this resource with 2 unique external prefixes.

Registry Name Registry Metaprefix External Prefix Curate
BioContext biocontext CPC
FAIRSharing FAIRSharing logo fairsharing FAIRsharing.e08886
Identifiers.org Identifiers.org logo miriam cpc
N2T Name-to-Thing logo n2t cpc
Providers

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier A01M1/026 is used to demonstrate the providers available for Cooperative Patent Classification. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.

Name Metaprefix URI
Cooperative Patent Classification cpc https://worldwide.espacenet.com/classification?locale=en_EP#!/CPC=A01M1/026
Bioregistry bioregistry https://bioregistry.io/cpc:A01M1/026
Identifiers.org miriam https://identifiers.org/cpc:A01M1/026
Name-to-Thing n2t https://n2t.net/cpc:A01M1/026