IP Rights Trademark Registration

Brief Classification of Trademark Class 12 to 20

Trademark classification is a platform by which documents pertaining to Trademark registration like trademark and service mark applications are arranged by trademark examiners. Trademark class list explains the description and scope of the types of goods or services to the marks apply. So, before filing the trademark registration application, it is necessary to identify the classes in which you want to seek the protection.

A trademark is a sign, symbol or mark used to differentiate between the goods sold by two or more market competitor or manufacturer. Once you get the trademark registration, you are the owner of the mark and have the right to protect the trademark. The manufacturers of the goods or services are apportioned into different classes and each class requires a different trademark registration. There are around 80000 goods and services classified in 45 classes.

Read our article on Trademark Class 1 to 5 or Trademark class 6 to 11.

Trademark Class 12 – Vehicles, devices or Machines

It details about the vehicles, devices, machine, and apparatus for locomotion by land, air or water. The Trademark class 12 also includes the particulars of the motors and the engines for a land vehicle, coupling and transmission components for land vehicles and air cushion vehicles eventually.

List of Trademark Class 12 that includes-

The following item is included in the Trademark class list-

• Vehicles and Conveyances for land like railways, chairlifts, and car cable transport installation, air eater or rail, aerial conveyors etc.
• Land Vehicles and Conveyance, wheelbarrows, wagons, handcars, scooters, remote control, automobiles, ambulances, caravans etc.
• Air and Space Vehicles, seaplanes, parachutes, amphibious, air vehicles, air balloons, aeronautical apparatus, space vehicles, casting carriage, cyclecars, etc
• Human Power Trolley and carts, handling carts and tilt trucks
• Mobile Conveyance, funiculars, dining cars, refrigerated wagons, sleeping cars, locomotives, rail vehicles and wheelchairs etc
• Water Vehicles, ships, yards, ferry boats, barges, pontoons, launches, stern oars etc.
• Parts and fittings for vehicles, vehicle suspension springs, vehicle covers, vehicle bumpers, upholstery for vehicles, torsions bars for vehicles, etc
• Wheels, tires and continuous tracks, wheels for bicycles vehicle, tubeless tires, mine cartwheel vehicles,
• Antitheft, security and safety devices and equipment for vehicles, anti-theft devices for vehicles, anti-theft alarms for vehicles, ejectors seats for aircraft, airbags, reversing alarms for vehicles safety belts for vehicle seats etc
• Parts and Fitting for air, land and space vehicles and water vehicles,
• Powertrains including engines and motors for land vehicles, traction engines, land vehicles, a motor for the cycle, jet engines for a land vehicle, driving motors for land vehicles etc

Trademark Class 12 that doesn’t include-

• Railway material of metals – ( Class 6- Common Metals)
• Motors, engines, coupling and transmission components other for land vehicles ( Class 7)
• Parts of motors and engines ( Class 7)

Related classes to  Trademark class 12

Related trademark classes are the one that is related to another class. The following are the related items in the Related Trademark Class list-

• Common metals – Class 6
• Computers and Scientific Devices- Class 9
• Machines- Class 7
• Furniture- Class 20
• Building Materials – Class 19,
• Advertising and Business Service – Class 35
• Material Treatment Services- Class 40
• Construction and Repair Services- Class 37
• Science and Technology Services- Class 42

The trademark registration fees vary on the basis of the class system. A separate Registration fee for each class of goods and service is paid at the time of registering the trademark. It is advisable to choose the correct class at the time of Trademark Registration; if you register a trademark in the incorrect class then you may have to pay extra bucks for no use.

Hence, for a complete list of Trademark Class 12 kindly contact us or go to the government website at https://ipindiaonline.gov.in/tmrpublicsearch/frmmain.aspx. With Enterslice register any class of goods or service trademark.

Trademark Class 13 – Firearms, fireworks

It includes firearms, projectiles, explosives, ammunition, and fireworks.

When to use Trademark Class 13?

You will choose Trademark class 13 if you are registering in any of the goods-

• Air pistols
• Flare pistol
• Artillery guns (cannons)
• Cleaning brushes for firearms
• Explosive Cartridge
• Gun Carriage

Trademark Class 13 includes-

The following item is included in the Trademark class list-

• Firearms, air pistols [weapons], artillery guns, ballistic weapons or ballistic missiles, cannons, ammunition for firearms, breaches of firearms, cartridge cases, cartridge pouches, cartridges, cleaning brushes for firearms, cartridge loading apparatus etc,
•  Explosive, acetyl-nitrocellulose, ammonium nitrate explosives or nitrate of ammonia explosives, detonating plugs, detonating fuses for explosives or firing lanyards for explosives, detonating caps mines [explosives], powder horns, pyrotechnic products, revolvers, rifles or carbines, rocket launchers, rockets [projectiles], shells [projectiles], signal rockets etc,

Hence, for a complete list of Trademark Class 13 kindly contact us or go to the government official website^[1]. With Enterslice register any class of goods or service trademark.

Trademark Class 13 doesn’t include –

• Medicines (Class- 5- pharmaceuticals)
• Beverages- (class 33-Alcoholic Beverages)
• Matches – (Class- 34- tobacco products

Related Classes to Trademark class 13 –

A Related trademark Class 13 includes-

• Hand Tools and Implements – Class 8
• Machines and Machines tools – Class 7
• Surgical and Medical Instruments – Class 10
• Vehicles and Vehicle Components – Class 12
• Games, Toys and Sporting Games – Class 28

Trademark class 14 – Precious Metal like gold metals

It details about the precious metals, goods in precious metals not included in other classes and in any general jewellery, clocks, and watches. It also includes precious metals and their alloys and goods in precious metals or coated, jewellery not included in other classes; precious stones; hierological and chronometric instruments.

Trademark class 14 includes –

The following item is included in the Trademark class list-

• Precious metals and stones, agates, alloys of precious metal, badges of precious metal, boxes of precious metal, coins, copper tokens, chronometers, chronometric instruments, busts of precious metal chronoscopes, cuff links, figurine statues of precious metal, statues of precious metal, gold,
• Jewellery, amulets, jewellery, jewellery, beads for making jewellery, bracelets jewellery, Brooches chain, charms jewellery,  trinkets jewellery, clasps for jewellery or cloisonné jewellery, diamonds, earrings, gold thread
• Clock and Watches, alarm clocks, anchors clock- and watchmaking, atomic clocks, barrels (clock- and watchmaking), and cases for clock- and watchmaking, cases for watches (presentation), chronographs watches, clock hands, clock cases, clocks.

Hence, for a complete list of Trademark Class 14 kindly contact us or go to the government official website at https://ipindiaonline.gov.in. With Enterslice register any class of goods or service trademark.

Trademark class 14 doesn’t include –

• Goods in precious metals classified according to their function or purpose, for example, metals in foil and powder form for painters, decorators, printers, and artists (class 2 – paints)
• The amalgam of gold for dentists (class 5 – pharmaceuticals)
• Cutlery (class 8 – hand tools)
• Electric contacts (class 9 – computers and scientific devices)
• Gold Pin Nibs (class 16 – paper goods)
• Teapots (class 21 – household utensils)
• Silver and Gold embroidery (class 26 – lace and embroidery)
• Cigar boxes (class 34 – tobacco products)

Related Classes to Trademark class 14

• Chemicals – Class 1
• Common Metals and Alloys- Class 6
• Furniture and Plastic Goods – Class 20
• Lace, Button, and Embroidery – Class 26 and
• Insurance and Financial Services- Class 3

Trademark Class 15- Musical Instrument

It includes all musical instrument and in particular mechanical pianos and their accessories and musical boxes, electrical and electronic musical instrument.

Trademark class 15 it includes-

The following item is included in the Trademark class list-

• Musical instruments,accordions, musical instruments, bagpipes, carillons , balalaikas stringed musical instruments, bamboo flutes, bandoneons, banjos, barrel organs, basses musical instruments, bellows for musical instruments, bow nuts for musical instruments, bows for musical instruments, bridges for musical instruments, vaccines [trumpets], , cases for musical instruments etc.

Hence, for a complete list of Trademark Class 15 kindly contact us or go to the government official website at https://ipindiaonline.gov.in. With Enterslice register any class of goods or service trademark.

Classes under Trademark 15 doesn’t include-

• Apparatus for the recording, transmission, amplification, and reproduction of sound under Class 9 – computer and scientific devices

Related Classes to Trademark Class 15–

• Common Metals and Alloys- Class 6
• Hand Tools and Implements – Class 8
• Games and Sporting Games- Class 28
• Ropes, Sacks, and Bags – Class 2

Trademark Class 16- Paper, Cardboard, books

It includes paper, clipboard, and goods made from these materials and not included in other.

Trademark class 16 includes-

The following item is included in the Trademark class list-

• Cardboard, paper, and goods made from this material but does not include in other classes or printed matter, photographs, stationery, and bookbinding material
• Typewriters and office requisites (except furniture), paint brushes, artists material, adhesives and office requisites (except furniture), stationery, photographs, booking materials, printed matter, not included in other classes, absorbent sheets of paper or plastic for foodstuff packaging, advertisement boards of paper or cardboard, bags (envelopes, pouches) of paper or plastics, for packaging, bibs of paper, bottle envelopes of cardboard or paper Artists material or paint brushes
• Adhesive for stationery or household purposes or Typewriters and office requisites, Instructional and teaching the material, correcting tapes for office requisite, covers or wrappers stationery, credit card imprinters, non-electric, desk mats, diagrams, document files stationery, document laminators for office use, document holders stationery, drawing pads, drawing pins

Hence, for a complete list of Trademark Class 16 kindly contact us or go to the government official website at https://ipindiaonline.gov.in/. With Enterslice register any class of goods or service trademark.

Trademark class 16 doesn’t include-

• Colours
• Hand tools for artists

Related classes to trademark class 16

• Computer Scientific Devices- Class 9
• Educational and Entertainment Services- Class 41
• Advertisement and Business Services- Class 35
• And Science and Technology services- class 42

Trademark class 17 – Rubber products, thermals

It clarifies and includes mainly electrical, thermal and acoustic insulating materials and plastics being for use in manufacturer in the form of sheets, blocks, and rods.

When you opt for Trademark class 17-

• Rubber
• Gum
• Gutta-percha
• Asbestos
• Mica and Goods from these materials and not included in other classes
• Flexible pipes or not the metals

Trademark class 17 includes–

The following item is included in the Trademark class list-

• Electrical, dielectrics (insulators), insulators for electric mains, paper for electrical capacitors, compressed air pipe fittings, non- metallic, connecting hose for vehicle radiators, cords of rubber
• Thermal, boiler composition to prevent the radiation of heat, brake lining materials, partly processed, canvas hose pipes, carbon fibres, semi-processed other than for textile use, caulking materials, cellulose acetate for repairing leaks, clack valves of rubber, chemical compositions clutch linings
• Acoustic insulating material, acrylic resins semi-finished products, adhesive bands, other than stationery and not for medical or household purposes / adhesive tapes, other than stationery and not for medical or household purposes, anti-dazzle films for windows
• Plastics, filtering materials [semi-processed foams or films of plastic, gaskets or  joint packing’s or seals, gum, raw or semi-worked, gutta-percha, hoses of textile material, packing or cushioning, stuffing materials of rubber or plastics, padding materials of rubber or plastics

Hence, for a complete list of Trademark Class 17 kindly contact us or go to the government official website at https://ipindiaonline.gov.in/.With Enterslice register any class of goods or service trademark.

Related Classes to Trademark class 17 –

• Chemicals- Class 1
• Tobacco and Smoking Products- Class 34
• Textile and Textile Goods- class24
• Racks and Sacks and Bags- Class 22
• Household Utensils – Class 21

Trademark class 18 – Leather Goods or travelling bag

It mainly includes leather, leather imitations, travel bags and not included in other class and saddler.

When to opt Trademark Class 18

The following item is included in the Trademark class list-

• Leather and imitations of leather, and goods made of these materials and not included in other classes animal skins, hides
• Walking sticks
• Whips, harness, and saddler
• Umbrellas and parasols
• Trunks and traveling bags

Trademark class includes-

The following item is included in the Trademark class list-

• Sausage skins, imitations thereof, and gut for making sausages.
• Umbrellas and parasols, umbrellas handles, umbrellas covers, umbrellas sticks, umbrellas or parasol ribs, umbrella rings, parasols, frames for umbrellas or parasols.
• Walking sticks, mountaineering sticks or alpenstocks, walking stick seats, canes or walking sticks, walking stick handles or walking canes handles.
• Luggage, bags, wallets and other carriers, wheeled shopping bags, vanity cases, valises, trunks, travelling trunks, travelling sets travelling bags, tool bags of leather, suitcases, suitcase handles, slings for carrying infants, sling bags for carrying infants, shopping bags, school bags or school satchels, rucksacks or backpacks, purses, pouches

Hence, for a complete list of Trademark Class 18 kindly contact us or go to the government official website at https://ipindiaonline.gov.in/.With Enterslice register any class of goods or service trademark.

Trademark class 18 doesn’t include –

• Clothing
• Footwear
• Headgear

Related classes to Trademark Class 18 –

• Clothing – Class 25
• Precious Metals- Class 14
• Advertising and Business Service- Class 35
• Medical and Vet Service – Class 44
• Science and Technology – Class 42

Trademark class 19 – Building material

It includes the non- metallic building material, semi-worked woods, building glasses, veneers.

When to opt Trademark class 19

The following item is included in the Trademark class list-

• Building materials (non-metallic); non-metallic rigid pipes for building; asphalt, pitch, and bitumen; non-metallic transportable buildings; monuments, non- metallic
• Semi-worked woods (for example, beams, planks, panels)
• Veneers
• Letterboxes of masonry
• Building glass (for example, floor slabs, glass tiles)
• Glass granules for marking out roads

Trademark class 19 includes –

The following item is included in the Trademark class list-

• Semi-worked woods, agglomerated bagasse of cane, building material, alabaster, aquaria structures, aquarium gravel, aquarium sand, artificial stone, asbestos cement, asbestos mortar, asphalt, asphalt paving, balustrading, binding agents for making briquettes or binding agents for making stones,
• binding material for road repair, bitumen, bituminous products for building, bituminous coatings for roofing, bricks, building timber or lumber, building cardboard [asphalted], building paper, building stone, busts of stone, concrete or marble, caissons for construction work under water etc
• Building glasses, alabaster glass, building glass, glass granules for road marking/glass granules for marking out roads, insulating glass or building, plate glass or windows, for building, safety glass, stained-glass windows, window glass, except glass for vehicle windows, window glass, for the building etc
• Non-metallic building materials, advertisement columns, angle irons, arbors structures non- metallic ], armored doors, non- metallic armored doors, nonmetallic aviaries, nonmetallic structures, beacons, non- metallic, non-luminous, beams, non- metallic or girders, non- metallic bicycle parking installations etc.

Hence, for a complete list of Trademark Class 19 kindly contact us or go to the government official website at https://ipindiaonline.gov.in/.With Enterslice register any class of goods or service trademark.

Trademark class 19 doesn’t include-

• Cement preservatives and cement waterproofing preparations
• Fireproofing preparations

Related Classes to Trademark class 19

• Common Metals and Alloys – class 6
• Furniture and Plastic Goods- Class 20
• Household Utensils – Class 21
• Hand Tools and Implements – Class 8
• Building Construction and Repair – Class 37

Trademark class 20 – Furniture, mirror, pictures

It mainly includes furniture, picture frames, mirror, and goods of wood, corks, reed and cane wicker, horn, bone, ivory, whalebone, shell.

When to opt for Trademark class 20

The following item is included in the Trademark class list-

• Bedding
• Looking glass and furnishing or toilet mirrors
• Registration number plates non- metallic
• Letterboxes non- metallic or masonry.

Trademark Class 20 includes-

The following item is included in the Trademark class list-

• Mooring buoys, mooring buoys, non- metallic.
• Locks and keys, locks, other than electric, non- metallic , plastic key cards, not encoded, Door, gate and window fittings, locks, door bolts , non- metallic for vehicles, door knockers, non- metallic  doorbells, non- metallic , non-electric, door handles, non- metallic , door fittings, non- metallic , indoor window shades
• Non-metallic hardware, broom handles, non- metallic flagpoles, hinges, non- metallic fans for personal use, non-electric, identification bracelets, non- metallic, for hospitals/identification bracelets, knife handles, non- metallic for hospital purposes, mats, removable, for sinks/removable mats or covers for sinks, loading gauge rods,
• Valvesdrain traps [valves] of plastic, valves, non- metallic, other than parts of machines, water-pipe valves of plastic.
• Fastener, bolts, non- metallic , dowels, non- metallic /pegs [pins], brush mountings, non- metallic or pins or pegs, nuts, non- metallic , plugs [dowels], wall plugs, plugs, non- metallic /bungs, non- metallic , non- metallic , rivets, non- metallic , screws, Cable fasteners, non- metallic , cable clips
• Frames, embroidery frames, picture frames, moulding for picture frames or mouldings for picture frames or mouldings for picture frames, picture frame brackets/picture rods
• Clothes hangers and clothes hooks, coat hooks, non- metallic hooks, non- metallic, for clothes rails, clothes hooks, non- metallic coat hangers/clothes hangers.
• Animal housing and beds, beds for household pets, comb foundations for beehives, beehives, dog kennels, honeycombs, fodder racks, nesting boxes, kennels for household pets, scratching posts for cats, nesting boxes for household pets, sections of wood for beehives.
• Unprocessed and semi-processed materials included in the class, not specified for use, ambroid bars, animal horns, animal hooves, bamboo, coral, animal claws, horn, corozo, unworked or semi-worked, unworked or semi-worked, ivory
• Coffins and funerary urns, coffin fittings, non- metallic, coffins, funerary urns.
• Letterboxes, letter boxes, non- metallic or masonry
• Mannequins and tailors’ dummies, dressmakers’ dummies, tailors’ dummies, mannequins.\

Trademark class 20 doesn’t include-

• Special furniture for laboratories (Class 9 – Computers and Scientific Devices)
• Special furniture for medical use (Class 10 – Medical Supplies)
• Bedding linen (Class 24 – Textiles)
• Eiderdowns (Class 24 )
• Certain special types of mirrors, classified according to their function or purpose (consult the Alphabetical List of Goods)

Related Classes to Trademark Class 20

• Hand Tools and Implements – Class 8
• Lighting Heating, Cooking – Class 11
• Vehicles and Components- Class 12
• Rubber Asbestos and Mica – Class 17
• Furniture and Plastic Goods – Class 20
• And Grains and Agriculture – Class 31

Hence, for a complete list of Trademark Class 20 kindly contact us or go to the government official website at https://ipindiaonline.gov.in/.With Enterslice register any class of goods or service trademark.