Why Did the United States Move to the Cooperative Patent

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Essay

Why did the United States move to the Cooperative Patent Classification system and abandon its prior U.S. Classification System for classifying patents?

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Definitions:

Development Of Language

The process through which humans acquire the ability to perceive, produce, and use words to understand and communicate.

Retrieval

The process of accessing and bringing into consciousness information stored in memory.

Recall

A process in memory that involves the retrieval of information previously learned or experienced.

Encoding

The initial stage of memory formation where perceived inputs are transformed into a format that can be stored in the brain.