INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF GOODS AND SERVICES …

[Pages:193]INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF GOODS AND SERVICES

FOR THE PURPOSES OF THE REGISTRATION OF MARKS

(NICE CLASSIFICATION)

EIGHTH EDITION

PART II WITH LIST OF GOODS AND SERVICES

IN CLASS ORDER

WORLD INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ORGANIZATION GENEVA 2001

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WIPO PUBLICATION No. 500.2(E)

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ISBN 92-805-0938-1

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 .................................................................................................. 26 Alphabetical List (in Class order): Goods ..................................................................................................... 35 Services .................................................................................................. 145

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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), by the Benelux Trademark Office and by the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM).

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 eleven 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 18 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); 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; and revised Class 42 with the creation of Classes 43 to 45 (in 2000).

At its eighteenth session, held in October 2000, the Committee of Experts adopted changes to the seventh edition of the Nice Classification.

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, the sixth in 1992 and the seventh in 1996. This edition (the eighth), published in June 2001, will enter into force on January 1, 2002.

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The authentic versions of the Nice Classification (English and French) are published in two parts. Part I lists, in alphabetical order, all the goods in one list and all the services in another list. Part II (this volume) 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 eighth edition of the Nice Classification may be ordered from the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), 34, chemin des Colombettes, P.O. Box 18, CH-1211 Geneva 20.

Geneva, June 2001

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COUNTRIES PARTY TO THE NICE AGREEMENT

(December 2000)

Algeria Australia Austria Barbados Belarus Belgium Benin Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria China Croatia Cuba Czech Republic Democratic People's Republic of Korea Denmark Dominica Estonia Finland France Germany Greece Guinea Hungary Iceland Ireland Israel Italy Japan Kyrgyzstan Latvia Lebanon Liechtenstein Lithuania

(Total: 65 countries)

Luxembourg Malawi Mexico Monaco Morocco Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Republic of Korea Republic of Moldova Romania Russian Federation Saint Lucia Singapore Slovakia Slovenia Spain Suriname Sweden Switzerland Tajikistan The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia Turkey Ukraine United Kingdom United Republic of Tanzania United States of America Uruguay Yugoslavia

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OTHER COUNTRIES AND ORGANIZATIONS USING THE NICE CLASSIFICATION

(December 2000)

In addition to the 65 countries party to the Nice Agreement, listed on the previous page, the following 71 countries and three organizations also use the Nice Classification:1

Albania Angola Argentina Bahrain Bangladesh Bolivia Botswana Brazil Burundi Chile Colombia Costa Rica Cyprus Djibouti Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Ethiopia Ghana Guatemala Guyana Haiti Honduras India Indonesia Iran (Islamic Republic of) Iraq

Jamaica Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kuwait Lesotho Libya Madagascar Malaysia Malta Mauritius Mongolia Namibia Netherlands Antilles New Zealand Nicaragua Nigeria Pakistan Panama Paraguay Peru Philippines Qatar Rwanda Samoa San Marino Saudi Arabia

Seychelles Sierra Leone Solomon Islands South Africa Sri Lanka Sudan Swaziland Thailand Tonga Uganda United Arab Emirates Venezuela Viet Nam Yemen Zaire Zambia Zimbabwe African Intellectual Property Organization (OAPI)1 Benelux Trademark

Office (BBM) Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM)

1 The following States are members of the African Intellectual Property Organization (OAPI) (December 2000): Benin (also party to the Nice Agreement), Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, C?te d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Guinea (also party to the Nice Agreement), Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Togo (16).

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