Over the last few years, there has been increasing debate surrounding the appropriate trademark classification for digital assets. The most recent edition of the Nice Classification (the 12th Edition) ...

Last week, the Canadian Trademarks Office began issuing “pre-assessment letters” for certain trademark registrations which have never been classified under the Nice Classification system. The Nice ...

The scope of trademark applications is crucial when it comes to protection and enforcement. Consequently, accurately analysing, identifying and classifying the goods and services designed to be ...

In an action for cancellation involving the trademark PRYMUS, the Warsaw District Administrative Court has held that the Nice Classification must be used only as an auxiliary tool to decide whether ...

According to the Minerals Council South Africa, the country's electricity costs have risen by more than 900% since 2008 ...

The UKIPO has also published guidelines relating to the classification of NFTs, virtual goods and services provided in the metaverse. Unlike their physical counterparts, virtual goods are classified ...

The International Nice Classification allows all entities which are part of the Nice Convention to unify under one criteria the classification of goods and services to be protected with a trade mark.

Under the Nice Agreement and the Singapore Treaty, Nice classification is not the criterion, merely the reference for determining whether two goods or services are similar or not. In China, an ...

In the digital landscape, virtual goods and services, such as video games, music, virtual currencies, clothing, and avatars, also require intellectual property protection. Trade marks, which ...