At the 32nd Session of the Nice Committee of Experts it was confirmed that the 12th Edition of the Nice Classification will come into force this January 1, 2023. This new Edition reflects changes to the Nice Classification Headings, a few transfers with respect to goods, but does not contain any transfers with respect to services. Most notably “dispensers” have been transferred and will now be classified according to material composition.

I had the honour to represent the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC) at the 29th session of the Nice Committee of Experts in Geneva from April 29 to May 3, 2019, where the Committee dealt with hundreds of remaining proposals from the 28th session, as well as the hundreds of proposals and 4 related projects presented this year. Not surprisingly, the Committee will be carrying over a few hundred proposals and a few projects into 2020.

I recently had the pleasure of representing IPIC at the 28th Session of the Committee of Experts of the Nice Union (the Committee) held in Geneva, Switzerland, from April 30 to May 4, 2018.