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In Japanese patent law, F-term is a system for classifying Japanese patent documents according to the technical features of the inventions described in them. It is not a replacement for the International Patent Classification (IPC) or other patent classifications, but complements other systems by providing a means for searching documents from different viewpoints.^{[citation needed]} A symbol attached to a patent document, indicating that the invention disclosed in the document has a particular technical feature, is also called an F-term.^{[citation needed]}

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(in English) F-term lists and F-term search on the Industrial Property Digital Library (IPDL) by INPIT, a Japanese governmental agency
Japanese FI classification and F-terms now available in English (March 2001) by the European Patent Office on Japanese patent classifications (version archived by www.archive.org)
JPO patent search guidance (in Japanese) (Translate to English: Google, Bing, Yandex)

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-:''This article is about the patent classification used in Japan. For F-term in theoretical physics, see [[F-term]].''
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-In [[Japanese patent law]], '''F-term''' is a system for [[classification|classifying]] [[Japan]]ese [[patent]] documents according to the technical features of the [[invention]]s described in them.  It complements the [[International Patent Classification]] (IPC) system by providing a means for searching documents from a different viewpoint than that provided by the IPC system.
+In [[Japanese patent law]], '''F-term''' is a system for [[Categorization|classifying]] [[Japan]]ese [[patent]] documents according to the technical features of the [[invention]]s described in them.  It is not a replacement for the [[International Patent Classification]] (IPC) or other [[patent classification]]s, but complements other systems by providing a means for searching documents from different viewpoints.{{cn|date=May 2013}}  A symbol attached to a patent document, indicating that the invention disclosed in the document has a particular technical feature, is also called an F-term.{{cn|date=May 2013}}
-The F-term system was developed in [[1987]] by the [[Japan Patent Office]] (JPO) and it is maintained by the same body.  A symbol attached to a patent document, indicating that the invention disclosed in the document has a particular technical feature, is also called F-term.
-The F-term classification system consists of '''themes''' and '''terms'''.
-The coverage area of the IPC is divided into approximately 2900 categories, each of which is called a theme, and each theme spans a range of IPC subgroups.  A theme identified by the title describing the range or the '''theme-code''' which consists of five digits allocated uniquely to each theme; for example, a theme spanning IPC range A01K 87/00--87/06 is identified by its title "[[Fishing rod]]s" and its theme-code "2B019".
-Each theme has a number of viewpoints and each document is classified repeatedly for each viewpoint in the respective theme.  For example, Theme 2B019 "Fishing rods" has the following twelve viewpoints: structures, [[raw material]]s, surface processing and patterns, illumination, accessory implements, protective covers, plugs, fishing line guides, top guides, mounting cylinders, plate configurations and pipe elements.
-From each viewpoint, documents are classified into several groups and labeled with a four-digit code called the "term" or "F-term".  For example, from viewpoint "structures", all fishing rod documents are classified into fourteen groups such as AA01 "Cross-sectional configurations", AA03 "Built-in reels at the bottom of the rod", etc.; from viewpoint "raw materials", all fishing rod documents are classified into 23 groups such as AB01 "Rods of fiber-reinforced plastic (FRP)", AB41 "Natural materials combined with fiber-reinforced plastic (FRP)", etc.
-All terms concerning a theme are put into a tabular form called an "F-term list", which are available online, e.g., [http://www5.ipdl.ncipi.go.jp/pmgs1/pmgs1/!frame_E?hs=1&gb=2&dep=3&sec=2B&cls=019&scls=&mgrp=&idx=&sgrp=&sf=&bs=&dt=&wrd=&nm= 2B019].  (Some descriptions of F-terms may seem strange because of incorrect translation from the original [[Japanese language|Japanese]])
 == External links ==
-* [http://www5.ipdl.ncipi.go.jp/pmgs1/pmgs1/pmgs_E F-term lists] by Japanese governmental agency
+* {{in lang|en}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20070927092128/http://www5.ipdl.inpit.go.jp/pmgs1/pmgs1/!frame_E?hs=1&gb=2&dep=1&sec=&cls=&scls=&mgrp=&idx=&sgrp=&sf=&bs=&dt=0&wrd=&nm= F-term lists] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20070927092017/http://www4.ipdl.inpit.go.jp/Tokujitu/tjftermena.ipdl?N0000=114 F-term search] on the [[Industrial Property Digital Library]] (IPDL) by INPIT, a Japanese governmental agency
+* [https://web.archive.org/web/20051220004635/http://www.european-patent-office.org/news/epidosnews/source/epd_3_01/11_3_01_e.htm Japanese FI classification and F-terms now available in English (March 2001)] by the [[European Patent Organisation|European Patent Office]] on Japanese patent classifications (version archived by www.archive.org)
+* {{webtrans|http://www.jpo.go.jp/torikumi/searchportal/htdocs/search-portal/sea.html|JPO patent search guidance|ja}}
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