Earlier this year, the trademark system in Canada was modernized
to bring in the Nice classification system. The Nice
classification system is an international classification system
that is used to classify goods or services into 34 classes for
goods and 11 classes for services for the purposes of registering
trademarks. As part of this modernization, the Canadian
Trademarks Act was amended to add section 44.1, which
provides the following:
44.1 (1) The Registrar may give notice to the registered owner
of a trademark requiring the owner to furnish the Registrar, in the
prescribed time and manner, with a statement of the goods or
services in respect of which the trademark is registered, in which
those goods or services are grouped in the manner described in
subsection 30(3).
