On the 20^th October 2014, the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM) reported that the Icelandic Patent Office (ELS) and the Intellectual Property Office of Montenegro (IPOM) have both joined TMclass.

TMclass, a ‘Classification of Goods and Services tool’ developed by OHIM, assists trademark applicants to search for and classify Goods and Services (terms) and also facilitates the translation, into all EU languages, of the full list of Goods and Services and verifies if those terms appear in the classification databases of the relative Participating Offices.

The TMclass tool now comprises a total of 41 national and regional IP Offices, including OHIM, and offers users the opportunity to search and translate terms to and from Icelandic and Montenegrin, in addition to any of the other 29 available languages.