Trademark Class 16 – Paper and Paper products, stationery, teaching materials

Trademark Class 16: Paper and Paper products, stationery and office requisites, teaching materials

Class Description of Products:

“Paper and cardboard; printed matter; bookbinding material; photographs; stationery and office requisites, except furniture; adhesives for stationery or household purposes; drawing materials and materials for artists; paintbrushes; instructional and teaching materials; plastic sheets, films and bags for wrapping and packaging; printers’ type, printing blocks.”

Explanatory Note

Class 16 includes mainly paper, cardboard and certain goods made of those materials, as well as office requisites

This Class includes, in particular:

• paper knives and paper cutters;
• cases, covers and devices for holding or securing paper, for example, document files, money clips, holders for cheque books,
• paper-clips, passport holders, scrapbooks;
• certain office machines, for example, typewriters, duplicators, franking machines for office use, pencil sharpeners;
• painting articles for use by artists and interior and exterior painters, for example, artists’ watercolour saucers, painters’ easels and palettes, paint rollers and trays;
• certain disposable paper products, for example, bibs, handkerchiefs and table linen of paper;
• certain goods made of paper or cardboard not otherwise classified by function or purpose, for example, paper bags, envelopes and containers for packaging, statues, figurines and works of art of paper or cardboard, such as figurines of papier mâché,framed or unframed lithographs, paintings and watercolours.

This Class does not include, in particular:

• paints (Cl. 2);
• hand tools for artists, for example, spatulas, sculptors’ chisels (Cl. 8);
• teaching apparatus, for example, audiovisual teaching apparatus, resuscitation mannequins (Cl. 9), and toy models (Cl. 28);
• certain goods made of paper or cardboard that are classified according to their function or purpose, for example, photographic paper (Cl. 1), abrasive paper (Cl. 3), paper blinds (Cl. 20), table cups and plates of paper (Cl. 21), bed linen of paper (Cl. 24),paper clothing (Cl. 25), cigarette paper (Cl. 34).

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 16 as per NICE Classification: