Angola and Zambia join TMclass
As of 19 December 2022, the Angolan Institute of Industrial Property (IAPI) and the Patents and Companies Registration Agency of Zambia (PACRA) will use and accept the terms from the alphabetical list of Nice and the harmonised database of goods and services (HDB) in TMclass respectively.
Following PACRA’s decision to use the HDB, there are now 29 IP offices outside the EU that use and accept terms from this database.