WIPO's ever useful email news list reports that there is an update to the 10th Edition of the Nice Classification which will come into effect on 1 January 2013. The Information Notice can be found here.
This is not quite so useful for practitioners in the Gulf. Only Bahrain is a party to the Nice Agreement. Kuwait, Oman and the UAE follow the Ninth edition, Saudi Arabia the Eighth and Qatar the Seventh.
This part of the Empty Quarter wonders what might be holding back the various Trade Mark Offices from adopting the current (or at least most recent) version of the Nice Classification. Uniformity in the classification system assists rights holders. This part of the Empty Quarter also wonders if the UAE Trade Mark Office will be better able to adapt to the newer classification now that they are using the WIPO IPAS system.
This is not quite so useful for practitioners in the Gulf. Only Bahrain is a party to the Nice Agreement. Kuwait, Oman and the UAE follow the Ninth edition, Saudi Arabia the Eighth and Qatar the Seventh.
This part of the Empty Quarter wonders what might be holding back the various Trade Mark Offices from adopting the current (or at least most recent) version of the Nice Classification. Uniformity in the classification system assists rights holders. This part of the Empty Quarter also wonders if the UAE Trade Mark Office will be better able to adapt to the newer classification now that they are using the WIPO IPAS system.
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