Saint Lucia joins TMclass

As of 25 October 2021, the Registry of Companies & Intellectual Property of Saint Lucia (ROCIP) will use and accept the list of terms from the harmonised database of goods and services (HDB) in TMclass.

Following ROCIP’s decision to use the HDB, there are now 20 IP offices outside the EU that use and accept terms from this database.

The inclusion of ROCIP in TMclass brings the total number of participating national and regional IP offices, including ARIPO, OAPI, WIPO and the EUIPO, to 88.

TMclass offers users the opportunity to search for and translate goods and services to and from any of the 44 languages available as well as verifying the terms’ correct classification under the Nice classification.

The adoption of the HDB by ROCIP is a concrete result of the CARIFORUM Intellectual Property and Innovation Project (CarIPI) funded under the 11th European Development Fund and implemented by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO).

You can find out more at www.euipn.org and https://euipo.europa.eu/ec2 and https://internationalipcooperation.eu/en/caripi