International Trademark Classification Changes

What it does

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issues this final rule to incorporate classification changes adopted by the Nice Agreement Concerning the International Classification of Goods and Services for the Purposes of the Registration of Marks (Nice Agreement). These changes are listed in the International Classification of Goods and Services for the Purposes of the Registration of Marks (13th ed., ver. 2027) (Nice Classification), which is published by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), and will become effective on January 1, 2027.

The Patent and Trademark Office's summary, as published in the Federal Register.

What changed in the regulation

1 part of Title 37 of the Code of Federal Regulations:

37 CFR 6

Compared with

The Patent and Trademark Office has published 4 final rules in 2026 so far, compared with 5 in all of 2025.

Counted by the Tribune from Federal Register records since Jan. 1, 2025.

Before this

No earlier Federal Register document under regulation identifier 0651-AD96 since Jan. 1, 2025.

What happens next and when

This rule is effective on January 1, 2027.

The agency's dates, word for word.

Check it yourself

• The document in the Federal Register
• Docket PTO-T-2026-0463 on Regulations.gov
• Title 37 on eCFR

The record as published

Source: the Federal Register (public domain). The document in the Federal Register