CPC Main Group
G10D 7/00 General design of wind musical instruments (accordions or concertinas G10D11/00; whistles G10K5/00)
Filing statistics
CPC G10D 7/00 belongs to the parent subclass G10D, which recorded 8,878 patent applications worldwide between 2013 and 2023. Annual filings declined from 709 in 2013 to 513 in 2023 (-28%), peaking at 1,126 applications in 2016. The most active applicants in class G10 are SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY (6,277 applications), GOOGLE (5,429 applications) and FRAUNHOFER (4,984 applications).
Source: EPO PATSTAT, worldwide filings
4 direct subcodes
Child Classifications
Navigate with arrow keys, Enter to open
- G10D 7/02 of the type wherein an air current is directed against a ramp edge
- G10D 7/06 Beating-reed wind instruments, e.g. single or double reed wind instruments
- G10D 7/10 Lip-reed wind instruments, i.e. using the vibration of the musician's lips, e.g. cornets, trumpets, trombones or French horns
- G10D 7/12 Free-reed wind instruments
Top Applicants
Top 10 applicants by patent filingsfor class G10, 2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT
- SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY KR 6,277
- GOOGLE US 5,429
- FRAUNHOFER DE 4,984
- SONY CORPORATION JP 2,808
- HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY CN 2,577
- MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING US 2,382
- DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING CORPORATION US 2,123
- QUALCOMM US 2,117
- IBM (INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION) US 2,049
- AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES US 1,924