With the long awaited changes to the Canadian Trademarks Act and Regulations just around the corner, brand owners should be excited about Canada’s alignment with international trademark standards and ...

Over the last few years, there has been increasing debate surrounding the appropriate trademark classification for digital assets. The most recent edition of the Nice Classification (the 12th Edition) ...

Major amendments to Canadian trademark law took effect on 17 June 2019. Although five years had elapsed between when the amendments were first passed and the date that they came into force, many ...

Under the Nice Agreement and the Singapore Treaty, Nice classification is not the criterion, merely the reference for determining whether two goods or services are similar or not. In China, an ...

South Africa has officially adopted the 13th Edition of the Nice Classification (NCL 13-26) with effect from 1 January 2026, following its implementation by the World Intellectual Property Office on ...