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1 February 2023 As announced, the 2023.02 version of the CPC scheme which was prereleased on 13 January 2023 is now in force since 1 February 2023.

13 January 2023 As of today, the material concerning the CPC scheme version of February 2023 (2023.02) is available via the Prerelease area of the website.

1 January 2023 As announced, the 2023.01 version of the CPC scheme which was prereleased on 6 December 2022 is now in force since 1 January 2023.

6 December 2022 As of today, the material concerning the CPC scheme version of January 2023 (2023.01) is available via the Prerelease area of the website.

1 August 2022 As announced, the 2022.08 version of the CPC scheme which was prereleased on 5 July 2022 is now in force since 1 August 2022.

5 July 2022 As of today, the material concerning the CPC scheme version of August 2022 (2022.08) is available via the Prerelease area of the website.

1 May 2022 As announced, the 2022.05 version of the CPC scheme which was prereleased on 5 April 2022 is now in force since 1 May 2022.

8 April 2022 - This online meeting is organised to inform CPC industry users on the latest and upcoming developments concerning the Cooperative Patent Classification.

5 April 2022 As of today, the material concerning the CPC scheme version of May 2022 (2022.05) is available via the Pre-release area of the website.

16 March 2022 - As a result of system upgrades, as of the CPC 2022.05 release the numbering system of CPC projects is changed from parallel numbering to seri