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Nov 01, 2012 (Newsletter Issue 16/12)
Finland
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Use of Class Headings


The Finnish Office announced that if the list of goods and services of a trade mark applied for before October 1, 2012 includes an entire class heading, the National Board of Patents and Registration of Finland interprets the list of goods and services as covering all goods or services in that class at the time of the application.

From October 1, 2012, the applicants must indicate in the trade mark application whether by using a class heading, the applicant wants the application to cover all goods or services included in the Nice Alphabetical List of that class at the time of the application. This can be done by indicating after the class heading that the application also covers all other goods, or all other services, in that class in the Nice Alphabetical List.

If not clarified, the application will only cover goods or services included in the literal meaning of the individual terms in the class heading.

The Nice Alphabetical List only includes some of the goods or services that are classified in a particular class. If you seek protection for any goods or services not clearly included in any class heading, you should write what the goods or services are, to make it clear that those goods or services are included in the list.

Source: www.prh.fi