Suriname joins TMclass

As of 16 December 2024, the Intellectual Property Office of Suriname (BIE) will accept the terms from the harmonised database of goods and services (HDB) in the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) TMclass search and classification tool.

Following BIE’s decision to use the HDB, there are now 36 IP offices outside the EU that use and accept terms from this database.

The new incorporation of BIE in TMclass brings the total number of participating national and regional IP offices, including the African Regional Intellectual Property Organization (ARIPO), the African Intellectual Property Organization (OAPI), the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the EUIPO, to 96.

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

EUIPO pioneered providing free IP quality data to promote market openness and transparency. The integration of BIE in TMclass is a concrete result of the EUIPO’s collaboration efforts in the Caribbean through the EU-funded IP cooperation ‘CarIPI’ project.

More information is available at https://euipo.europa.eu/ec2 and https://internationalipcooperation.eu/en/caripi