1. Select Language: Choose the language from the drop-down menu.
2. Enter Search term: Enter the description of your Goods and Services in the text box.
3. Search: Press the search button.

When you enter the description of Good and Services:

• You must only use alphanumeric characters (this is not case sensitive).
• You may only search for one term at a time.
• If multiple search words are entered such as 'babies napkins', the search engine looks for occurrences of both 'babies' and 'napkins' in any order. It will not look for classification descriptions that contain either just 'babies' or just 'napkins'.

You may also limit your results by selecting a specific class or classes and/or a particular office or offices:

Select Nice Class

The Nice classification is divided into 45 classes of Goods (Classes 1 to 34) and Services (Classes 35 to 45). You can limit the search to one or more of these classes by entering the relevant class number(s) in the Nice Class box, or by clicking on the Nice Class box icon and selecting the relevant class number(s).

You can select all classes by clicking on the Select all options. You can deselect individual classes by re-clicking on the class you want to remove, or you can clear all selected classes at once by deselecting the Select all boxes.

Select Office

All participating offices that have supplied data to TMclass and whose working language coincides with the selected language will automatically appear on the screen under Office Databases. If the selected language is also a language included in the HDB, then the HDB (Harmonised Database) option will also appear. For example, if you select English as your chosen language the HDB option will appear alongside all offices whose database is in English but who do not use the HDB.

You can limit the search to one or more of these offices by clicking on the tick box in front of the office initials or on the HDB (Harmonised Database). See Contact for full information on each office.

2.1.2 Search using Advanced Criteria

You also have the option of limiting your search results further by using Advanced criteria:

Click on Advanced criteria to open out the advanced search criteria.

The image below shows the search box with the additional options:

Search mode

Using the drop-down menu, select in which mode you wish to search for Goods and Services terms:

• Word prefix: Selecting this option means that the search will find all terms that contain a word that has the selected text at the beginning of that word.
• Full phrase: This finds terms that include the selected text exactly as shown.
• Exact match: This finds terms that consist exclusively of the selected text.
• Word suffix: Selecting this option means that the search will find all terms that contain a word that has the selected text at the end of that word.

Sort by

This gives the option of displaying results by relevance, class or alphabetical order.

Master term

Within the HDB there may be a number of terms that represent the same Goods or Services. If this is the case, these terms are grouped together into concepts with each concept having a master term representing that particular concept.

The other terms within the concept are called variants. These variants have the same meaning and scope as the master term, but are expressed in a different way.

TERM	TYPE
Automobile body fillers	Master term
Fillers for automobile bodies	Variant
Car body fillers	Variant

If you wish to limit your search to master terms only, click on the tick box in front of "Show only master terms".

After modifying the advanced search criteria, you may click on the "Close Advanced Search" button (optional). You can maintain or adjust the criteria throughout your search.

2.1.3 Results of the term search

After you click the Search button, the results of your search will appear below the search field.

The following example shows the results following a search for the term Mustard:

On the left hand side you will see the Taxonomy structure displayed. This will show in which class(es) and groups the resulting term(s) belong. By clicking on a class or group, the search result can be filtered to show only the term(s) belonging to this specific class or group. In the “Result” column you can see how many terms you have in each class.

On the right hand side you will see information concerning:

Class

This shows the class number for each classification term.

Term

This shows the term itself. In this example, all terms containing the word “mustard” are displayed.

Office

In the search results, you will see a column for each office you selected for the chosen language, including a column called “Harmonised” which represents those offices using the HDB. A green tick will appear under those offices who have accepted the term in question. If no green tick appears under the office name, this means that this term cannot be found in the respective database. It does not necessarily mean however that the term will be rejected by that office.

Source

In the remaining columns you will see information regarding the source for each term:

• Harm = Harmonised Database (HDB)
• Nice = Nice Alphabetical List
• IDli = ID list
• Grou = Group Title
• MGS = Madrid Goods and Services

Where a green dot is shown in a particular column, this means that the term in question is included in the indicated source. For instance, in the above example we can see that “Mustard pots” is included in both the Harmonised Database (Harm) and in the ID list (IDli), but that it is not a Nice term. Hovering over the green dot will show the related code for that term in the relevant source, and in the case of the Harmonised Database, it will also indicate the master term to which the term is associated.

Select

To select a term, click on the tick box on the left of the class number. This will add the term to My List (top right) for future use.

See selected terms - My List

Clicking on the My List label will give you an overview of the selection results showing the Nice Class, the term selected and all participating offices that include the term in their classification database.

In this window, you will be able to edit your list by either clicking on the corresponding waste bin to delete an individual term, or by clicking on Clear My List to delete the whole list.

By clicking on the Actions button, you will be given the option of downloading your list as either an XLS file, a DOC file, a PDF file, an RTF file, or a TXT file.

2.2.1 How to verify a list of terms

In the Classification Tools drop-down menu you will find the Verify list of terms option:

When you open the Verify list of terms option, you will see the following:

1. Laguage: Choose the language from the drop-down menu.
2. Office: Choose the office database in which you wish to verify your Goods and Services. Only offices that use the same language as the language you selected will appear.
3. Source: Select the option of the Official Alphabetical List of Nice Classification if you wish to verify your Goods and Services terms in this source.
4. Enter your list of Goods and Services in the text box by either of the following methods:
   1. Choosing the class number and copy/pasting from your own source, or typing in your Goods and Services terms.
   2. Directly importing your My List content.

If the class number is

• Bold: It contains terms to be verified.
• Followed by an asterisk: it has terms contained in My list.
• Highlighted: The class is selected, you are in that class at the moment.
• Normal: None of the above.

If you include more than one description, each must be separated by a semicolon. If you do not do this the list will be searched as a single description. If you import from My List the semicolons will be inserted for you.

You can verify terms one class at a time by selecting the class in which you want to verify your terms. If you want to display all classes that contain terms inserted by you, select Show all classes.

2.2.2 Results of Verify list of terms

Clicking on the verify button displays the results as follows:

Result
	Term found in the same class / Identical term found in a different format.
	Synonym found in the same class / Synonym found in a different class / Input term partially found / Similar term found.
	Term found in a different class.
	Did not find matching term.

Class

The class chosen for the terms to be verified.

Input term

The terms you have entered using one of the above options, A or B.

Class

The class the input term has been found in.

Matched term

The term as it has been found in the selected database.

Select term

A ticked box on the far right indicates that the term is added to My List.

Just above the results table, you can choose to: Show all results, Show only “ok” results or Show only “not ok” results.

2.3.1 How to translate a term

When you open the Translate term window, you will see the following fields:

1. Source language: Choose the language you want to translate from, from the first drop down menu.
2. Target language: Choose the language you want to translate into, from the second drop down menu.
3. Translate: Enter the term you would like to translate and find classification terms for.
4. Click Translate.

2.3.2 Advanced criteria for Translate term

Clicking on the Advanced search button available in the right hand corner will open the advanced search criteria.

If you wish to close the Advance search, you can click on the Close advanced search button.

You can maintain or adjust these criteria throughout your search.

Search mode

Using the drop-down menu, select in which mode you wish to search for Goods and Services descriptions (terms):

• Word prefix: Selecting this option means that the search will find all terms that contain a word that has the selected text at the beginning of that word.
• Full phrase: This finds terms that include the selected text exactly as shown.
• Exact match: This finds terms that consist exclusively of the selected text.
• Word suffix: Selecting this option means that the search will find all terms that contain a word that has the selected text at the end of that word.

Translations

As well as searching the accepted terminology from each National Office, the translation functionality will also search the translation memory that stores translations from previous trademarks. Make sure that this box is ticked if you wish the search to also cover terms in the translation memory.

Select Nice Class

The Nice classification is divided into 45 classes of Goods (Classes 1 to 34) and Services (Classes 35 to 45). You can limit the search to one or more of these classes by entering the class number in the Nice Class box or selecting the class number from the icon next to it.

You can select all classes by clicking the Select all options. You can deselect individual classes by re-clicking on the class you want to remove, or you can clear all selected classes at once by deselecting the Select all boxes.

2.3.3 Results of Translate term

The following example shows the results for the term Mustard translated from English to Norwegian. After you click the translate button, the results will appear as follows:

Under class you will see the class number of each classification term.

Source term

Here you will see all classification terms containing the word/words you entered.

Target term

Here you will see the corresponding translation for the source term in the specified language.

Office

Here you will see the initials of the office that supplied the data for the language you chose. A green tick will appear under those offices who have accepted the classification term. If there is no green tick under the office name, this means that the term is not in their classification database. It does not necessarily mean that the term will be rejected by that office.

Select

To select a classification term, click on the tick box on the far right. This will add the term to My List (top right) for future use.

Clicking on a target term will display the details for that term.

2.4.1 How to Translate a List of terms

When you open the Translate list of terms window, you will see the following fields:

1. Source language: From the first drop-down menu, choose the language you want to translate from.
2. Target language: Choose the language you want to translate into from the second drop-down menu.
3. Enter your list of Goods and Services in the text box by either of the following methods:
   1. Choosing the class number and copy/paste from your own source, or typing in your Goods and Services terms.
   2. Directly importing your My List content.

If the class number is:

• Bold: It contains terms to be translated.
• Followed by an asterix: It has terms contained in My List.
• Highlighted: The class is selected. You are in that class at the moment.
• Normal: None of the above.

If you include more than one description, each one must be separated by a semicolon. If you do not do this the list will be searched as a single description. If you import from My List, the semicolons will be inserted for you.

You can translate terms one class at a time by selecting the class from the class list. If you want to display all classes that contain terms inserted by you, select Show all classes.

2.4.2 Results of Translate list of terms

The results of the Translate list of terms are displayed as follows:

Result
	Translation of found in same class.
	Translation found in the same class and in a different class / Translation found in a different class / Translation partially found in different class / Translation partially found the same class and in a different class / Translation partially found.
	Matching term not found / Term found but no translation for target language available.

Class

The class chosen for the terms to be translated.

Input Term

The terms you have entered using one of the above options, A or B.

Class

The class the translated term has been found in.

Translation

The translation of the input term.

Select

Clicking on the tick box on the far right will add the translated term to My List (top right) for future use. The translated term can be seen in My List in a separate tab specific to the target language.