CPC Definition - Subclass F16S
This place covers:
Sheets, panels, or other members of similar proportions, without an application covered by any other class; Constructions comprising assemblies of such members, without an application covered by any other class
This place does not cover:
Layered products | |
Railway vehicles | |
Motor vehicles | |
Ships or other waterborne vessels | |
Aircrafts; Cosmonautics | |
Structural elements for building construction, e.g. beams, columns, panels for buildings | |
Frames for doors, windows or the like | |
Devices for fastening or securing general constructional elements or machine parts together |
F16S is almost never used for classification.
The documents should be classified in the field(s) of application, even if the claims are drafted in a general way.
Almost all documents contain an indication of the field(s) of application in the description. Rarely this is not the case but the name of the applicant, e.g. a well-known automobile or aeronautical constructor, will suggest a field of application to which the document should be circulated.
F16S is used in the very exceptionally case when it is absolutely impossible to infer from the document the field(s) of application and the nature of the object.
This place covers:
Sheets, panels, or other members of similar proportions, without an application covered by any other class; Constructions comprising assemblies of such members, without an application covered by any other class
This place covers:
Elongated members, e.g. profiled members, without an application covered by any other class; Assemblies thereof, without an application covered by any other class; Gratings or grilles, without an application covered by any other class
This place does not cover:
This place covers:
Other constructional members, without an application covered by any other class and not being either a sheet, a panel, an elongated member or a grating