{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-marks-rules-2008/rule-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-marks-rules-2008/rule-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/1797",
  "legislation_title": "The Trade Marks Rules 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-marks-rules-2008",
  "path": "rule/7",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Classification of goods and services; section 34",
  "text": "(1) The prescribed system of classification for the purposes of the registration of trade marks is the Nice Classification.\n(2) When a trade mark is registered it shall be classified according to the version of the Nice Classification that had effect on the date of application for registration.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 7 in force at 1.10.2008, see rule 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/1797/rule/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:28:07.429295+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}