Trademark Class 15 – Musical instruments; music stands

Trademark Class 15: Musical instruments; music stands.

Class Description of Products: 

“Musical instruments; music stands and stands for musical instruments; conductors’ batons.”

Explanatory Note

Class 15 includes mainly musical instruments, their parts and their accessories.

This Class includes, in particular:

• mechanical musical instruments and their accessories, for example, barrel organs, mechanical pianos, intensity regulators for
• mechanical pianos, robotic drums;
• musical boxes;
• electrical and electronic musical instruments;
• strings, reeds, pegs and pedals for musical instruments;
• tuning forks, tuning hammers;
• colophony (rosin) for stringed musical instruments.

This Class does not include, in particular:

• apparatus for the recording, transmission, amplification and reproduction of sound, for example, electric and electronic effects
• units for musical instruments, wah-wah pedals, audio interfaces, audio mixers, equalisers being audio apparatus, subwoofers
• (Cl. 9);
• downloadable music files (Cl. 9);
• downloadable electronic sheet music (Cl. 9), printed sheet music (Cl. 16);
• juke boxes, musical (Cl. 9);
• metronomes (Cl. 9);
• musical greeting cards (Cl. 16).

 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 15 as per NICE Classification: