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Article 3

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

For rule 7 (classification of goods and services), there shall be substituted the following:

“7
(1)

For the purposes of trade mark registrations dated before 1st January 2002, goods and services shall be classified in accordance with Schedule 3f1, except where a specification is reclassified under rule 46 below to Schedule 4.

(2)

For the purposes of trade mark registrations dated on or after 1st January 2002, goods and services shall be classified in accordance with Schedule 4, which sets out the latest version of the classes of the International Classification of Goods and Servicesf2.”

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Footnotes

f1

Schedule 3 sets out the classes of the Seventh Edition of the International Classification of Goods and Services (the International Classification is referred to in the following footnote).

f2

The International Classification is drawn up under the Nice Agreement concerning the International Classification of Goods and Services for the purposes of the Registration of Marks of 15th June 1957 (as last revised on 13th May 1977) (Cmnd 7671). The latest version of the International Classification is the Eighth Edition which has a coming into force date of 1st January 2002.