Tuesday 31 March 2020
It’s been a pretty heavy week. Working from the hastily assembled trestle table in my makeshift home office, I can’t quite believe we’re only a few days into our month long New Zealand-wide lockdown. The last five days have passed in a blur of keeping up with colleagues, checking in with family, processing Covid-19 updates […]
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Wednesday 04 March 2020
The 2020 version of the 11th edition of the Nice Classification came into effect in January. A number of changes (some significant) were made to Nice 11 – which may have you passed you by. We mentioned them in our earlier blog, The Ghosts of Nice 11’s Past, Present & Future, but thought it was worth fleshing them out here. Since 2013, due […]
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Friday 28 February 2020
China is special when it comes to filing trademark applications because of its goods and services classification system. China uses the Nice classification system of 45 classes like much of the world, but China also has the overlay of its subclassification system.
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Friday 21 February 2020
Sortify.tm is pleased to announce the appointment of John Hackett as Brand Ambassador.
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Wednesday 19 February 2020
It’s long been thought that one weakness of this centralised system is “Central Attack”. This is where the home registration is attacked (within five years of the international application date), the whole house of cards, which is built upon that home registration, may come tumbling down.
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Thursday 19 December 2019
An attorney’s insight into the Nice 11 system, or as we like to call it a two-dimensional system in a three-dimensional world!
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