A01 AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
Description
A01 encompasses technologies and methods for food and raw material production through cultivation, animal rearing, and harvesting activities. It covers agricultural machinery, implements, and equipment; soil preparation and management; crop cultivation and protection; forestry operations and equipment; animal husbandry systems; and hunting, trapping, and fishing methods and devices. This class includes foundational technologies such as plowing, seeding, irrigation, pest control, and livestock management, extending to specialized equipment for forestry harvesting and aquaculture systems.
Filing statistics
CPC A01 recorded 968,158 patent applications worldwide between 2013 and 2023, summed across its 12 subclasses. Annual filings grew from 44,140 in 2013 to 82,784 in 2023 (+88%), peaking at 119,663 applications in 2018. The most active applicants in class A01 are JOHN DEERE (6,949 applications), MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY (6,297 applications) and DOW AGROSCIENCES (5,458 applications).
Source: EPO PATSTAT, worldwide filings
12 direct subcodes
Child Classifications
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- A01B SOIL WORKING IN AGRICULTURE OR FORESTRY; PARTS, DETAILS, OR ACCESSORIES OF AGRICULTURAL MACHINES OR IMPLEMENTS, IN GENERAL (making or covering furrows or holes for sowing, planting or manuring A01C5/00; mowers convertible to soil working apparatus or capable of soil working A01D42/04; mowers combined with soil working implements A01D43/12; soil working for engineering purposes E01, E02, E21)
- A01C PLANTING; SOWING; FERTILISING (parts, details or accessories of agricultural machines or implements, in general A01B51/00 - A01B75/00)
- A01D HARVESTING; MOWING
- A01F PROCESSING OF HARVESTED PRODUCE; HAY OR STRAW PRESSES; DEVICES FOR STORING AGRICULTURAL OR HORTICULTURAL PRODUCE (devices for topping or skinning onions or flower bulbs A23N15/08)
- A01G HORTICULTURE; CULTIVATION OF VEGETABLES, FLOWERS, RICE, FRUIT, VINES, HOPS OR SEAWEED; FORESTRY; WATERING (picking of fruits, vegetables, hops or the like A01D46/00; propagating unicellular algae C12N1/12)
- A01H NEW PLANTS OR PROCESSES FOR OBTAINING THEM; PLANT REPRODUCTION BY TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES
- A01J MANUFACTURE OF DAIRY PRODUCTS
- A01K ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; REARING OR BREEDING ANIMALS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; NEW BREEDS OF ANIMALS
- A01L SHOEING OF ANIMALS
- A01M CATCHING, TRAPPING OR SCARING OF ANIMALS (appliances for catching swarms or drone-catching A01K57/00; fishing A01K69/00 - ; biocides, pest repellants or attractants A01N); APPARATUS FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF NOXIOUS ANIMALS OR NOXIOUS PLANTS
- A01N PRESERVATION OF BODIES OF HUMANS OR ANIMALS OR PLANTS OR PARTS THEREOF (preservation of food or foodstuff A23); BIOCIDES, e.g. AS DISINFECTANTS, AS PESTICIDES OR AS HERBICIDES (preparations for medical, dental or toiletry purposes which kill or prevent the growth or proliferation of unwanted organisms A61K); PEST REPELLANTS OR ATTRACTANTS; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS
- A01P BIOCIDAL, PEST REPELLANT, PEST ATTRACTANT OR PLANT GROWTH REGULATORY ACTIVITY OF CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS OR PREPARATIONS
Top Applicants
Top 10 applicants by patent filings, 2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT
- JOHN DEERE US 6,949
- MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY US 6,297
- DOW AGROSCIENCES US 5,458
- BASF (BADISCHE ANILIN & SODA FABRIK) DE 5,296
- BAYER CROPSCIENCE DE 4,654
- PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL US 4,631
- SYNGENTA PARTICIPATIONS CH 4,410
- CNH INDUSTRIAL AMERICA US 4,128
- CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 3,805
- BAYER DE 3,607