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Okt 20, 2022 (Newsletter Issue 15/22)
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12th Edition of Nice Classification Enters into Force Soon


WIPO announces that the twelfth edition of the International Classification of Goods and Services for the Purposes of the Registration of Marks (Nice Classification) will enter into force on January 1, 2023. It includes a number of changes compared to the previous edition.

WIPO will apply the twelfth edition of the Nice Classification to any application for international registration that is received by the Office of origin on or after January 1, 2023; and to any application for international registration that is received by WIPO on or after January 1, 2023, when the said application is received by WIPO after the two-month time limit referred to in Article 3(4) of the Protocol Relating to the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks.

In conformity with its standing practice, WIPO will not reclassify, in accordance with the twelfth edition of the Nice Classification, the list of goods and services in international registrations with a date earlier than January 1, 2023.

This new edition is available on WIPO’s website here

Source: www.wipo.int