Product and service classifications: Difference between revisions

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Product classifications are hierarchical structures to find a class for a products or to find the products in a class with certain data properties.

Product classifications have various uses:

Finding unique trade marks within a product class in order to avoid conflicts in the future from same business or product name within the same class so that there is risk of confusion by consumer or procurer.
Finding products matching consumer given criteria

In Consumerium parlance basically what Lowest Troll used to call Product Groups.

Nice Classification

Work on the Nice Classification was initiated in 1957, in w:Nice, France, hence the name.

Currently it is managed by WIPO.

NCL appears to be the abbreviation in industry parlance.

w:International (Nice) Classification of Goods and Services

EURONICE

EURONICE was a 10+ language Nice compliant database by the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM). In 2016 OHIM was named to EUIPO.

Surely the database didn't go to /dev/null.

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 In Consumerium parlance basically what [[Lowest Troll]] used to call [[Product Group]]s.
+== Nice Classification ==
+Work on the '''Nice Classification''' was initiated in 1957, in [[w:Nice, France]], hence the name.
+Currently it is managed by '''[[WIPO]]'''.
+'''NCL''' appears to be the abbreviation in industry parlance.
+* [[w:International (Nice) Classification of Goods and Services]]
+=== EURONICE ===
+'''EURONICE''' was a 10+ language Nice compliant database by the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM). In 2016 OHIM was named to '''[[European Union Intellectual Property Office|EUIPO]]'''.
+Surely the database didn't go to /dev/null.