As of 13 June 2022, the Industrial Property Service of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry of Haiti (SPIMCI) will use and accept the list of terms from the harmonised database of goods and services (HDB) in TMclass.

Following SPIMCI’s decision to use the HDB, there are now 24 IP offices outside the EU that use and accept terms from this database.

The inclusion of SPIMCI in TMclass brings the total number of participating national and regional IP offices, including ARIPO, OAPI, WIPO and the EUIPO, to 90.

As of 13 June 2022, the Patents and Companies Registration Agency of Zambia (PACRA) has made its trade mark data available to the TMview search tool.

With PACRA on board of TMview, the tool now contains data from 77 participating offices.

With the addition of more than 60.000 trade marks from PACRA, TMview now provides information and access to more than 106,5 million trade marks in total.

The second edition of the Africa-GI training took place in Yaounde, Cameroon, from May 9 to May 19, 2022.

The program, which brought together European, OAPI and AfrIPI professionals, benefited local animators and authorities from the OAPI region. Among the countries represented were Benin, Cameroon, Chad, Comoros, Ivory Coast, Mali, Mauritania, Niger and Togo.