IPC Main Group
B44D 3/00 Accessories or implements for use in connection with painting or artistic drawing, not otherwise provided for; Methods or devices for colour determination, selection, or synthesis, e.g. use of colour tables
Introduced: September 1968
Last revised: January 2006
Classification Context
- Section:
- PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- Class:
- DECORATIVE ARTS
- Subclass:
- PAINTING OR ARTISTIC DRAWING, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; PRESERVING PAINTINGS; SURFACE TREATMENT TO OBTAIN SPECIAL ARTISTIC SURFACE EFFECTS OR FINISHES
Related Keywords
palettes or canvases for ARTISTSPALETTE(S) knives
9 direct subcodes
Child Classifications
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- B44D 3/02 Palettes
- B44D 3/04 Paint boxes
- B44D 3/06 Implements for stirring or mixing paints
- B44D 3/12 Paint cans; Brush holders; Containers for storing residual paint
- B44D 3/16 Implements or apparatus for removing dry paint from surfaces, e.g. by scraping, by burning
- B44D 3/18 Boards or sheets with surfaces prepared for painting or drawing pictures; Stretching frames for canvases
- B44D 3/22 Implements or apparatus for special techniques, e.g. for painting lines, for pouring varnish; Batik pencils
- B44D 3/24 Lamps for baking lacquers; Painters' belts; Apparatus for dissolving dried paints, for heating paints
- B44D 3/38 Cord line chalkers
Top Applicants
Top 10 applicants by patent filingsfor class B44, 2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT
- FLOORING TECHNOLOGIES MT 248
- UNILIN BE 248
- DNP (DAINIPPON PRINTING COMPANY) 244
- FLOORING INDUSTRIES LIMITED LU 196
- VAELINGE INNOVATION SE 188
- XINXIANG UNIVERSITY 174
- AKZENTA PANEELE + PROFILE DE 171
- LEONHARD KURZ STIFTUNG & COMPANY DE 169
- DNP (DAINIPPON PRINTING COMPANY) JP 163
- 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY (MINNESOTA MINING AND MANUFACTURING INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY) US 149