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updated uspc comment - staying with cpcs
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* There needs to be an environmental variable PATENTSVIEW_API_KEY set to the value of your API key.
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* The endpoints of the new version of the API are at <https://search.patentsview.org>, they had last been at <https://api.patentsview.org/>.
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* The API team produced a [Swagger UI page](https://search.patentsview.org/swagger-ui/) for the new version of the API. Your API key can be entered by pressing the Authorize button.
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* The new version of the API does not seem to return USPC classifications, the code was switched to use CPC classifications.
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* The new version of the API now returns USPC classifications, but we'll use CPC classifications. After May 2015 the patent office stopped assigning USPCs to utility patents.
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## Remarks about the data
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