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Applications for national UK patents remained fairly static between 2016 and 2017, with 22,068 applications in 2016 and 22,072 in 2017. Of these, applications from UK residents decreased from 63% of applications in 2016 to 60% in 2017. The number of Patents granted increased from 5602 in 2016 to 6311 in 2017 (+13%).
Other matters and useful links (URLs): annual report of the Office, news page, statistics, etc.
Our website www.ipo.gov.uk moved in October 2014 to a new Government website GOV.UK and the new web address is now:
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https://www.ipo.gov.uk/p-ipsum.htm
Classification1, preclassification2 (if applicable), reclassification3 activities; classification systems used (e.g., International Patent Classification (IPC)); matters concerning indexing of patent information
All UK patent applications are classified in the IPC. In 2005 the IPO started classifying all UK patent applications in ECLA, which was replaced by CPC classification in October 2013. Pre-classification (i.e. allocation of applications to examining groups) is done manually at subclass level using the CPC. Clusters of CPC subclasses provide the basis for the structure of examining divisions and groups. The office does not reclassify documentation.
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