Trademark Class 36 – Financial, monetary and banking services

Trademark Class 36: Financial, monetary and banking services

Class Description of Products:

“Financial, monetary and banking services; insurance services; real estate services.”

Explanatory Note

Class 36 includes mainly services relating to banking and other financial transactions, financial valuation services, as well as insurance and real estate activities.

This Class includes, in particular:

• financial transaction and payment services, for example, exchanging money, electronic funds transfer, processing of credit card and debit card payments, issuance of travellers’ cheques;
• financial management and research;
• financial appraisals, for example, jewellery, art and real estate appraisal, repair costs evaluation;
• cheque verification;
• financing and credit services, for example, loans, issuance of credit cards, hire- or lease-purchase financing;
• crowdfunding;
• safe deposit services;
• financial sponsorship;
• real estate agency services, real estate management, rental of apartments, rent collection;
• insurance underwriting, actuarial services;
• brokerage services, for example, securities, insurance and real estate brokerage, brokerage of carbon credits, pawnbrokerage.

This Class does not include, in particular:

• administration services relating to business transactions and financial records, for example, book-keeping, drawing up of statements of accounts, business and financial auditing, business appraisals, tax preparation and filing services (Cl. 35);
• sponsorship search, promotion of goods and services through sponsorship of sports events (Cl. 35);
• cash replenishment of automated teller machines (Cl. 39);
• freight brokerage, transport brokerage (Cl. 39);
• quality evaluation of wool and standing timber (Cl. 42).

NICE Classification of Trademarks

Nice Classification of Trademarks is the internationally recognized system used for the classification of trademark applications specified by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and is recognized by all the 193 member couriers of WIPO.

Under the Nice Classification, the entire range of goods and services are categorized into 45 Classes. Class 1 to 34 defines GOODS and Class 35 to 45 defines SERVICES. Each class represents a distinct category of goods or services.

List of products covered under Trademark Class 36 as per NICE Classification: