On the 21^st July 2014, the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM) reported that the graphical user interface (GUI) of TMclass, OHIM’s free classification tool, is available in Arabic.

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.

Accordingly, users can now avail of the Arabic interface when searching for terms in any of the other 27 available languages.

The Arabic GUI is a manifestation of OHIM’s International Cooperation programme, and has been facilitated by the strong collaboration with the Moroccan Industrial and Commercial Property Office (OMPIC).