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1 INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATIONOF GOODS AND SERVICESFOR THE PURPOSESOF THE REGISTRATION OF MARKS(NICE CLASSIFICATION )EIGHTH EDITIONPART IIWITH LIST OF GOODS AND SERVICESIN CLASS ORDERWORLD INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ORGANIZATIONGENEVA 2001 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any formor by any means (electronically, mechanically, by photocopying, recording orotherwise) without the prior permission of the copyright PUBLICATIONNo. (E)_____ISBN 92-805-0938-1(iii)CONTENTSPagePreface ..(v)Nice AgreementConcerning the INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION of GOODS and Servicesfor the Purposes of the Registration of Marks ..(ix)Madrid AgreementConcerning the INTERNATIONAL Registration of Marks (extracts).

2 (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* * *(v)PREFACEHISTORY AND PURPOSE OF THE NICE CLASSIFICATIONThe INTERNATIONAL (Nice) CLASSIFICATION of GOODS and services for the Purposes of theRegistration of Marks was established by an Agreement concluded at the Nice DiplomaticConference, on June 15, 1957, and was revised at Stockholm, in 1967, and at Geneva, countries party to the Nice Agreement constitute a Special Union within theframework of the Paris Union for the Protection of Industrial Property.

3 They have adoptedand apply the Nice CLASSIFICATION for the purposes of the registration of of the countries party to the Nice Agreement is obliged to apply the NiceClassification in connection with the registration of marks, either as the principalclassification or as a subsidiary CLASSIFICATION , and has to include in the official documents andpublications relating to its registrations of marks the numbers of the classes of theClassification to which the GOODS or services for which the marks are registered of the Nice CLASSIFICATION is mandatory not only for the national registration ofmarks in countries party to the Nice Agreement, but also for the INTERNATIONAL registration ofmarks effected by the INTERNATIONAL Bureau of WIPO, under the Madrid AgreementConcerning the INTERNATIONAL Registration of Marks and under the Protocol Relating to theMadrid Agreement Concerning the INTERNATIONAL Registration of Marks, and for theregistration of marks by the African Intellectual Property Organization (OAPI), by theBenelux Trademark Office and by the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (TradeMarks and Designs) (OHIM).

4 The Nice CLASSIFICATION is also applied in a number of countries not party to the NiceAgreement (see list on page (viii)).REVISIONS OF THE NICE CLASSIFICATIONThe Nice CLASSIFICATION is based on the CLASSIFICATION prepared by the UnitedInternational Bureaux for the Protection of Intellectual Property (BIRPI) predecessor ofWIPO in 1935. It was that CLASSIFICATION , consisting of a list of 34 classes and analphabetical list of GOODS , that was adopted under the Nice Agreement and later expanded toembrace also eleven classes covering services and an alphabetical list of those Nice Agreement provides for the setting up of a Committee of Experts in which allcountries party to the Agreement are represented.

5 The Committee of Experts decides on allchanges in the CLASSIFICATION , in particular the transfer of GOODS and services between variousclasses, the updating of the alphabetical list and the introduction of necessary explanatorynotes.(vi)The Committee of Experts has, since the entry into force of the Nice Agreement, onApril 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 ofview of form (in the late 1970s); substantially modified the General Remarks, the ClassHeadings and the Explanatory Notes (in 1982); introduced a basic number for each singleproduct or service in the Alphabetical List (in 1990), which number enables the user to findthe equivalent product or service in the alphabetical lists of other language versions of theClassification.

6 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 adoptedchanges to the seventh edition of the Nice OF THE NICE CLASSIFICATIONThe 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 seventhin 1996. This edition (the eighth), published in June 2001, will enter into force onJanuary 1, 2002.* * *The authentic versions of the Nice CLASSIFICATION (English and French) are published intwo parts. Part I lists, in alphabetical order, all the GOODS in one list and all the services inanother list.

7 Part II (this volume) lists, in alphabetical order for each class, the GOODS orservices belonging to that class. There is also a version with a bilingual (English/French)alphabetical eighth edition of the Nice CLASSIFICATION may be ordered from the WorldIntellectual Property Organization (WIPO), 34, chemin des Colombettes, Box 18,CH-1211 Geneva , June 2001(vii)COUNTRIES PARTY TO THE NICE AGREEMENT(December 2000)AlgeriaAustraliaAustriaBarbadosBela rusBelgiumBeninBosnia and HerzegovinaBulgariaChinaCroatiaCubaCzech RepublicDemocratic People's Republic of KoreaDenmarkDominicaEstoniaFinlandFrance GermanyGreeceGuineaHungaryIcelandIreland IsraelItalyJapanKyrgyzstanLatviaLebanonL iechtensteinLithuaniaLuxembourgMalawiMex icoMonacoMoroccoNetherlandsNorwayPolandP ortugalRepublic of KoreaRepublic of MoldovaRomaniaRussian FederationSaint LuciaSingaporeSlovakiaSloveniaSpainSurin ameSwedenSwitzerlandTajikistanThe former Yugoslav Republic of MacedoniaTrinidad and TobagoTunisiaTurkeyUkraineUnited KingdomUnited Republic of TanzaniaUnited States of AmericaUruguayYugoslavia(Total.)

8 65 countries)(viii)OTHER COUNTRIES AND ORGANIZATIONS USING THENICE 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 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, CentralAfrican Republic, Chad, Congo, C te d Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Guinea (also party to theNice Agreement), Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Togo (16).AlbaniaAngolaArgentinaBahrainBangla deshBoliviaBotswanaBrazilBurundiChileCol ombiaCosta RicaCyprusDjiboutiEcuadorEgyptEl SalvadorEthiopiaGhanaGuatemalaGuyanaHait iHondurasIndiaIndonesiaIran (Islamic Republic of)IraqJamaicaJordanKazakhstanKenyaKuwai tLesothoLibyaMadagascarMalaysiaMaltaMaur itiusMongoliaNamibiaNetherlands AntillesNew ZealandNicaraguaNigeriaPakistanPanamaPar aguayPeruPhilippinesQatarRwandaSamoaSan MarinoSaudi ArabiaSeychellesSierra LeoneSolomon IslandsSouth AfricaSri LankaSudanSwazilandThailandTongaUgandaUn ited Arab EmiratesVenezuelaViet NamYemenZaireZambiaZimbabweAfrican Intellectual Property Organization (OAPI)1 Benelux Trademark Office (BBM)

9 Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM)Nice Agreement_____(ix)NICE AGREEMENTCONCERNING THE INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OFGOODS AND services FOR THE PURPOSES OF THEREGISTRATION OF MARKSof June 15, 1957,as revised at Stockholm on July 14, 1967, and at Geneva on May 13, 1977,and as amended at Geneva on September 28, 1979 Article 1 Establishment of a Special Union; Adoption of an INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION ;Definition and Languages of the CLASSIFICATION (1)The countries to which this Agreement applies constitute a Special Union and adopt acommon CLASSIFICATION of GOODS and services for the purposes of the registration of marks (hereinafterdesignated as the CLASSIFICATION ).

10 (2)The CLASSIFICATION consists of:(i)a list of classes, together with, as the case may be, explanatory notes;(ii)an alphabetical list of GOODS and services (hereinafter designated as the alphabeticallist ) with an indication of the class into which each of the GOODS or services falls.(3)The CLASSIFICATION comprises:(i)the CLASSIFICATION published in 1971 by the INTERNATIONAL Bureau of Intellectual Property(hereinafter designated as the INTERNATIONAL Bureau ) referred to in the ConventionEstablishing the World Intellectual Property Organization, it being understood,however, that the explanatory notes to the list of classes included in that publicationshall be regarded as provisional and as recommendations until such time as explanatorynotes to the list of classes are established by the Committee of Experts referred to inArticle 3.