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January 2016
Trademark Division
The Japan Patent Office (JPO) and the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) are working on a cooperative project to compile concordance lists that indicate the corresponding relationships between the respective, similar group codes used for trademark examination at the JPO and the KIPO, based on a bilateral agreement the two offices signed.
Similar group codes are the codes assigned to goods and services that are presumed to be similar to each other in trademark examination. The project aims to improve the predictability of examination results, by encouraging users who file trademark applications with the JPO or the KIPO to utilize the concordance lists when searching for the existence of already registered trademarks.
As a result of the JPO-KIPO cooperation, the JPO is pleased to publish the Japan-Korea Concordance List of Similar Group Codes corresponding to Nice Classification, 10th edition, Version 2016 (NCL(10-2016)), which came into effect on January 1, 2016.
Japan-Korea Concordance List of Similar Group Codes (corresponding to Nice Classification, 10th edition, version 2016 (NCL (10-2016)) (PDF:1,757KB) (Excel:829KB)
“Similar Group Codes” used at the JPO
[Last updated 15 January 2016]
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