Argentina joins TMclass

By Estudio Chaloupka

As of 4 November 2019, the National Institute of Industrial Property of Argentina (INPI) is part of TMclass. TMclass is a search tool for classification of Goods and Services for trademark protection purposes. It is the interface that provides access to the Harmonised Database (HDB), the European Union common list of Goods and Services terms. It is also a portal that brings together the classification databases of all European and international participating offices, the names of which are displayed on the TMclass website.

TMclass offers a user-friendly environment with advanced features for browsing and searching terms, the possibility of verifying terms between the classification databases of Participating Offices, and multilingual functions for term translation. INPI will use and accept the list of terms from the harmonised database (HDB) in TMclass.

Following INPI’s decision to use HDB there are now seven non-EU IP offices that use and accept terms from HDB. The last addition of INPI in TMclass brings the total number of participating national and regional IP Offices, including ARIPO, OAPI, WIPO and EUIPO, to 76.