Tanzania joins TMclass

As of 11 March 2024, the Business Registrations and Licensing Agency of Tanzania (BRELA) will use and accept the terms from the harmonised database of goods and services (HDB) in TMclass.

Following BRELA’s decision to use the HDB, there are now 33 IP offices outside the EU that use and accept terms from this database.

The new incorporation of BRELA in TMclass brings the total number of participating national and regional IP offices, including ARIPO, OAPI, WIPO and the EUIPO, to 92.

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 BRELA 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