# Patents already have fairly rich classifications (IPC and CPC) — did you lean on these hierarchical… * * * Patents already have fairly rich classifications (IPC and CPC) — did you lean on these hierarchical classification tags when training your categorization model? By [John Ohno](https://medium.com/@enkiv2) on [January 5, 2020](https://medium.com/p/eba28918354f). [Canonical link](https://medium.com/@enkiv2/patents-already-have-fairly-rich- classifications-ipc-and-cpc-did-you-lean-on-these-hierarchical-eba28918354f) Exported from [Medium](https://medium.com) on September 18, 2020.