PART 2Amendments to the 1994 Act

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At the end of Part 2 insert—

Nice Classification

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1

For the purposes of this Act goods and services—

a

are not to be regarded as being similar to each other on the ground that they appear in the same class under the Nice Classification;

b

are not to be regarded as being dissimilar from each other on the ground that they appear in different classes under the Nice Classification.

2

In subsection (1), the “Nice Classification” means the system of classification under the Nice Agreement Concerning the International Classification of Goods and Services for the Purposes of the Registration of Marks of 15 June 1957, which was last amended on 28 September 1979 M1.