Singapore uses the Nice Classification as prescribed by the Nice Agreement to classify goods and services for trade mark applications. There are 45 classes of goods and services, and the Nice Classification assigns goods to Classes 1 to 34, and services to Classes 35 to 45. You may refer to the
Class Headings for general information about the types of goods and services belonging to each class. You may also wish to conduct a classification search on the goods and services that you intend to use in respect of your trade mark using
IPOS' Classification Search.
For the registration of your trade mark, you are required to specify the class number and the appropriate specification according to the Nice Classification. You are strongly encouraged to use the pre-approved list of goods and services in our database to specify your goods and/or services as this would avoid objection(s) pertaining to the specification. If the specification of goods and/or services are found to be in the worded too broadly or wrongly classified, we would raise objection(s). Consequently, this would delay the application process and would likely incur additional cost for the amendment of the specification.
You may wish to take note of our
Circulars and Practice Directions pertaining to specification of goods/services.