{"id":3408,"date":"2026-01-20T14:06:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T14:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cgmatute.com.ar\/?p=3408"},"modified":"2026-01-20T14:24:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T14:24:50","slug":"trademarks-upcoming-important-changes-to-the-nice-classification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cgmatute.com.ar\/?p=3408","title":{"rendered":"Trademarks: upcoming important changes to the Nice Classification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We would like to kindly inform you of upcoming important changes to the classification of certain goods and services.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As of <strong>January 1<sup>st<\/sup>, 2026<\/strong>, a few modifications to the classes of goods and services will take effect, according to the preview of the <strong>13<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0edition of the Nice Classification<\/strong>\u00a0(NCL 13\u20132026) published by WIPO. The reclassifications are as follows:<\/p>\n<ol style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Contact lenses, corrective spectacles, sunglasses, and other medical and therapeutic optical products, will move <u>from class 9 to class 10<\/u>.<\/li>\n<li>Emergency vehicles will be transferred <u>from class 9 to class 12<\/u>.<\/li>\n<li>Electric toothbrushes and other personal care products will move <u>from class 10 to class 21<\/u>.<\/li>\n<li>Heated garments and accessories will be transferred <u>from class 11 to class 25.<\/u><\/li>\n<li>Retail optician services <u>will move to class 35<\/u>, while maintenance services <u>will move to class 37<\/u>.<\/li>\n<li>Essential oils for medical purposes <u>will belong to class 5<\/u>. On the other hand, those intended for cosmetic use <u>will move to class 3<\/u>, meanwhile oils intended for food purposes <u>will be transferred to class 30<\/u>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If any of your clients\u2019 trademarks are included within the above-mentioned scope, we kindly recommend registering them in the corresponding classes to obtain the correct legal protection for your product\/service.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>We remain at your disposal for any other information you may need on the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We would like to kindly inform you of upcoming important changes to the classification of certain goods and services. As of January 1st, 2026, a few modifications to the classes of goods and services will take effect, according to the preview of the 13th\u00a0edition of the Nice Classification\u00a0(NCL 13\u20132026) published by WIPO. The reclassifications are&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cgmatute.com.ar\/?p=3408\" rel=\"bookmark\">Leer m\u00e1s &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trademarks: upcoming important changes to the Nice Classification<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"off","neve_meta_content_width":70,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sin-categoria-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cgmatute.com.ar\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cgmatute.com.ar\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cgmatute.com.ar\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cgmatute.com.ar\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cgmatute.com.ar\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cgmatute.com.ar\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cgmatute.com.ar\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cgmatute.com.ar\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cgmatute.com.ar\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cgmatute.com.ar\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}