Comparison of IPC and USPC classification systems in patent prior art searches

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 27-31

  Harris, Christopher ^a   Arens, Robert ^b   Srinivasan, Padmini ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^c University of Iowa   (United States)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Experimentation

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM; EXPERIMENTATION; PATENT APPLICATIONS; PATENT CLASSIFICATIONS; PATENT SEARCH; PATENTABILITY; PRIOR ART SEARCH; RETRIEVED DOCUMENTS;

ALGORITHMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

PATENTS AND INVENTIONS;

EID: 78651265043     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1871888.1871894     Document Type: Conference Paper

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