Ghana joins TMclass

As of 13 May 2024, the Registrar General’s Department of Ghana (GHIPO) will use and accept the terms from the harmonised database of goods and services (HDB) in TMclass.

Following GHIPO’s decision to use the HDB, there are now 34 IP offices outside the EU that use and accept terms from this database.

The new incorporation of GHIPO in TMclass brings the total number of participating national and regional IP offices, including ARIPO, OAPI, WIPO and the EUIPO, to 93.

TMclass offers users the opportunity to search for and translate goods and services to and from any of the 44 languages available as well as verifying the terms’ correct classification under the Nice classification.

The integration of GHIPO in TMclass is a concrete result of the EU funded project called Intellectual Property Rights Action for Africa (AfrIPI), which is implemented by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)

You can find out more at www.euipn.org and http://euipo.europa.eu/ec2 and https://internationalipcooperation.eu/en/afripi