A24 TOBACCO; CIGARS; CIGARETTES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES; SMOKERS' REQUISITES
Description
Class A24 covers the manufacture, composition, and ancillary products related to tobacco and tobacco-derived smoking articles, including cigars, cigarettes, and their components (papers, filters, wrappers). It also encompasses simulated smoking devices (e.g., electronic cigarettes, heat-not-burn products) and related accessories such as pipes, lighters, ashtrays, and tobacco storage containers. This class includes inventions addressing tobacco processing, blending, flavoring, packaging, and safety features in smoking products. Adjacent classes address broader food and beverage processing (A23) and personal care items (A45), while A24 remains focused specifically on tobacco consumption-related technologies and apparatus.
IPC and CPC are identically structured here. All 4 subcodes exist in both systems.
1 shared codes have differing titles between IPC and CPC.
Child Classifications
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- A24B MANUFACTURE OR PREPARATION OF TOBACCO FOR SMOKING OR CHEWING; TOBACCO; SNUFF heading IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- A24D CIGARS; CIGARETTES; TOBACCO SMOKE FILTERS; MOUTHPIECES OF CIGARS OR CIGARETTES; MANUFACTURE OF TOBACCO SMOKE FILTERS OR MOUTHPIECES heading IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- A24F SMOKERS' REQUISITES; MATCH BOXES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES (inhaling appliances for medical purposes, shaped like cigars, cigarettes or pipes A61M15/06) heading +1 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
Top Applicants
Top Applicants (IPC)
2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT
- PHILIP MORRIS PRODUCTS CH 13,201
- NICOVENTURES TRADING GB 7,482
- KT & G CORPORATION KR 4,818
- JAPAN TOBACCO JP 4,636
- JT INTERNATIONAL CH 3,806
- CHINA TOBACCO YUNNAN INDUSTRIAL COMPANY 2,490
- CHINA TOBACCO HENAN INDUSTRIAL 2,453
- CHINA TOBACCO HUBEI INDUSTRIAL 2,344
- BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO (INVESTMENTS) GB 2,199
- SHENZHEN FIRST UNION TECHNOLOGY COMPANY 2,097
Top Applicants (CPC)
2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT
- PHILIP MORRIS PRODUCTS CH 13,994
- NICOVENTURES TRADING GB 7,744
- KT & G CORPORATION KR 4,857
- JAPAN TOBACCO JP 4,561
- JT INTERNATIONAL CH 3,946
- BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO (INVESTMENTS) GB 2,374
- ALTRIA CLIENT SERVICES US 2,122
- RAI STRATEGIC HOLDINGS US 2,061
- NICOVENTURES TRADING 1,940
- PHILIP MORRIS PRODUCTS 1,855