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Major Update to Turkish (Nice) Classifications After Eight Years 🔔 Today, the Communiqué on the Classification of Goods and Services for Trademark Applications, published in the Official Gazette and introduced significant updates to the classification of goods and services. With this new Communiqué, the previous regulation has been repealed, and the updated classification system is now in effect. The key amendments to the Communiqué are below: ▶️ Class 9: Now includes mobile applications, cryptocurrencies (software), non-fungible tokens (Qualified Intellectual Property Deeds), and humanoid robots with artificial intelligence, laboratory robots, teaching robots, security surveillance robots. ▶️ Class 35: Design services for promotional purposes have been excluded. ▶️ Class 37: Now includes services regarding charging electric vehicles and rental of portable charging stations for electric vehicles. ▶️ Class 38: The communication services are now detailed to cover the services via telephone, computer, and other means; transmission of visual and audio messages, images, and videos via computers, mobile phones, and smart wearable devices; rental of user access time to a global computer network; internet service provider (ISP) services; and rental of communication devices. ▶️ Class 39: Now includes travel arrangement and transfer services for patients and their companions as part of medical tourism, as well as services for arranging travel visas and documents. ▶️ Class 42: Now includes inspection/expertise services for land vehicles and consultancy services in the field of computer hardware. ▶️ Class 43: Now includes accommodation and accommodation reservation services for patients and their companions as part of medical tourism. ▶️ Class 44: Now includes dentistry services, services of a psychologist, massage services, and spa (thermal water) services. Much-needed amendments to the trademark classification system reflect a shift towards an approach that aligns with new technologies, as well as the emerging services in Turkey, such as health tourism.

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