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C14B 9/00

Making driving belts or other leather belts or strips

Introduced: September 1968

Last revised: January 2006

Classification Context

Section:
CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
Class:
SKINS; HIDES; PELTS OR LEATHER
Subclass:
MECHANICAL TREATMENT OR PROCESSING OF SKINS, HIDES, OR LEATHER IN GENERAL; PELT-SHEARING MACHINES; INTESTINE-SPLITTING MACHINES

Filing statistics

IPC C14B 9/00 belongs to the parent subclass C14B, which recorded 9,850 patent applications worldwide between 2013 and 2023. Annual filings grew from 403 in 2013 to 1,064 in 2023 (+164%), peaking at 1,451 applications in 2020. The most active applicants in class C14 are SHAANXI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (236 applications), SICHUAN UNIVERSITY (186 applications) and XINGYE LEATHER TECHNOLOGY COMPANY (118 applications).

Source: EPO PATSTAT, worldwide filings

Related Keywords

making leather BELT(S)making DRIVING -belts of leatherSCARFING leathermaking leather STRAP(S)

Top Applicants

Top 10 applicants by patent filingsfor class C14, 2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT

  1. SHAANXI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 236
  2. SICHUAN UNIVERSITY 186
  3. XINGYE LEATHER TECHNOLOGY COMPANY 118
  4. NANTONG SIRUI ENGINEERING COMPANY 104
  5. HENAN PROSPER SKINS & LEATHER ENTERPRISE COMPANY 93
  6. LIAONING FUXIN NEW MATERIAL COMPANY 90
  7. FENGAN LEATHER COMPANY 70
  8. ZHANGZHOU XIANGZHOU LEATHER COMPANY 70
  9. STAHL INTERNATIONAL NL 68
  10. ZHEJIANG FUBANG GROUP COMPANY 61