How to respond to
a “Notification of Provisional Refusal”
issued by the JPO under the Madrid System
The JPO does not accept the indications of goods and services in the left column of the following table. Because The JPO thinks that the scope of the indication of goods and services is too vague.
The indications in the right column of the following table are examples of acceptable indications proposed by the JPO.
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Class |
Unacceptable indications of the class headings |
Examples of acceptable indications of goods and services |
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18 |
Goods (not included in other classes) of wood, cork, reed, cane, wicker, horn, bone, ivory, whalebone, shell, amber, mother-of-pearl, meerschaum and substitutes for all these materials, or of plastics |
Furniture made from wood or substitutes for wood; corks; screens of reed or substitutes for reed; chairs of cane and wicker or substitutes therefor; statuettes of wood, wax, plaster or plastic; boxes of plastic; packing boxes and containers made of plastic; plastic and wooden sculptures |
