D99 SUBJECT MATTER NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR IN THIS SECTION
Description
A residual classification for inventions and innovations within the textiles and paper domain that do not fit within the established Classes D01 through D98. This class accommodates emerging technologies, interdisciplinary developments, or specialized applications in textiles and paper manufacturing that predate or fall outside the scope of existing systematic classifications. Patent examiners use this class when the primary technical character of an invention relates to textiles or paper but lacks a clearly defined home in the defined subclasses.
IPC and CPC are identically structured here. All 1 subcodes exist in both systems.
IPC defines codes here since 2006.
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- D99Z SUBJECT MATTER NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR IN THIS SECTION heading since 2006 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
Top Applicants
Top Applicants (IPC)
2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT
- LYKHOVYD ANDRII LEONIDOVYCH UA 1
- ROOSE, MADELYN ZA 1
- J. ADAMS & ASSOCIATES TW 1
- PORCHER INDUSTRIES FR 1
Top Applicants (CPC)
2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT
- MILLIKEN & COMPANY US 11
- MILLIKEN & COMPANY 3
- 美利肯公司 1