INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF GOODS AND SERVICES

[Pages:56]INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF GOODS AND SERVICES

FOR THE PURPOSES OF THE REGISTRATION OF MARKS

(NICE CLASSIFICATION)

SEVENTH EDITION

PART I LIST OF GOODS AND SERVICES

IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER

WORLD INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ORGANIZATION GENEVA 1996

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WIPO PUBLICATION No. 500.1(E)

______________________________ ISBN 92-805-0661-7

CONTENTS

Page Preface ...................................................................................................................... (v) Nice Agreement

Concerning the International Classification of Goods and Services for the Purposes of the Registration of Marks ................................................ (ix) Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks (extracts) ....................... (xix) Protocol Relating to the Madrid Agreement (extracts) ............................................ (xxiii) Nice Classification: Guidance for the User ..................................................................................... 1 General Remarks ............................................................................................. 3 Class Headings ................................................................................................ 4 List of Classes, with Explanatory Notes:

Goods ..................................................................................................... 7 Services ................................................................................................. 25 Alphabetical List: Goods ..................................................................................................... 31 Services ................................................................................................. 141

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PREFACE

HISTORY AND PURPOSE OF THE NICE CLASSIFICATION

The International (Nice) Classification of Goods and Services for the Purposes of the Registration of Marks was established by an Agreement concluded at the Nice Diplomatic Conference, on June 15, 1957, and was revised at Stockholm, in 1967, and at Geneva, in 1977.

The countries party to the Nice Agreement constitute a Special Union within the framework of the Paris Union for the Protection of Industrial Property. They have adopted and apply the Nice Classification for the purposes of the registration of marks.

Each of the countries party to the Nice Agreement is obliged to apply the Nice Classification in connection with the registration of marks, either as the principal classification or as a subsidiary classification, and has to include in the official documents and publications relating to its registrations of marks the numbers of the classes of the Classification to which the goods or services for which the marks are registered belong.

Use of the Nice Classification is mandatory not only for the national registration of marks in countries party to the Nice Agreement, but also for the international registration of marks effected by the International Bureau of WIPO, under the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks and under the Protocol Relating to the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks, and for the registration of marks by the African Intellectual Property Organization (OAPI) and by the Benelux Trademark Office.

The Nice Classification is also applied in a number of countries not party to the Nice Agreement (see list on page (viii)).

REVISIONS OF THE NICE CLASSIFICATION

The Nice Classification is based on the Classification prepared by the United International Bureaux for the Protection of Intellectual Property (BIRPI)--predecessor of WIPO--in 1935. It was that Classification, consisting of a list of 34 classes and an alphabetical list of goods, that was adopted under the Nice Agreement and later expanded to embrace also eight classes covering services and an alphabetical list of those services.

The Nice Agreement provides for the setting up of a Committee of Experts in which all countries party to the Agreement are represented. The Committee of Experts decides on all changes in the Classification, in particular the transfer of goods and services between various classes, the updating of the alphabetical list and the introduction of necessary explanatory notes.

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The Committee of Experts has, since the entry into force of the Nice Agreement, on April 8, 1961, held 17 sessions and has, amongst its most noticeable achievements, undertaken a general review of the Alphabetical List of goods and services from the point of view of form (in the late 1970s), substantially modified the General Remarks, the Class headings and the Explanatory Notes (in 1982) and introduced a "basic number" for each single product or service in the Alphabetical List (in 1990), which number enables the user to find the equivalent product or service in the alphabetical lists of other language versions of the Classification; a task facilitated by consulting the Reference List.

At its seventeenth session, held in November 1995, the Committee of Experts adopted changes to the sixth edition of the Nice Classification. Announcements concerning these changes were published in the review Industrial Property and Copyright, pursuant to Article 4(2) of the Nice Agreement.

EDITIONS OF THE NICE CLASSIFICATION

The first edition of the Nice Classification was published in 1963, the second in 1971, the third in 1981, the fourth in 1983, the fifth in 1987 and the sixth in 1992. This edition (the seventh) was published in 1996, in the authentic languages English and French, and entered into force on January 1, 1997.

TRANSLATIONS OF THE NICE CLASSIFICATION

Translations of the seventh edition of the Nice Classification, some of them constituting official texts in conformity with Article 1(6) of the Nice Agreement, are being prepared in Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, German, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovene, Spanish and Swedish.

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The authentic versions of the Nice Classification (English and French) are published in two parts. Part I (this volume) lists, in alphabetical order, all the goods in one list and all the services in another list. Part II lists, in alphabetical order for each class, the goods or services belonging to that class. There is also a version with a bilingual (English/French) alphabetical list.

The seventh edition of the Nice Classification, both the authentic versions and most of the other language versions, may be ordered from the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), 34, chemin des Colombettes, 1211 Geneva 20 (Switzerland).

Geneva, October 1996

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