Trademark Class 35 – Advertising; business management, office functions

Trademark Class 35: Advertising; business management, office functions

Class Description of Products:

Advertising; business management, organization and administration; office functions.

Explanatory Note

Class 35 includes mainly services involving business management, operation, organization and administration of a commercial or industrial enterprise, as well as advertising, marketing and promotional services. For the purposes of classification, the sale of goods is not considered to be a service.

This Class includes, in particular:

• the bringing together, for the benefit of others, of a variety of goods, excluding the transport thereof, enabling customers to conveniently view and purchase those goods; such services may be provided by retail stores, wholesale outlets, through vending machines, mail order catalogues or by means of electronic media, for example, through websites or television shopping programmes;
• advertising, marketing and promotional services, for example, distribution of samples, development of advertising concepts, writing and publication of publicity texts;
• shop window dressing;
• public relations services;
• production of teleshopping programmes;
• organization of trade fairs and exhibitions for commercial or advertising purposes;
• search engine optimization for sales promotion;
• commercial assistance services, for example, personnel recruitment, negotiation of business contracts for others, cost price analysis, import-export agency services;
• 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;
• commercial administration of the licensing of the goods and services of others;
• services consisting of the registration, transcription, composition, compilation or systematization of written communications and registrations, and also the compilation of mathematical or statistical data;
• office functions, for example, appointment scheduling and reminder services, data search in computer files for others, computerized file management, telephone switchboard services.

This Class does not include, in particular:

• financial services, for example, financial analysis, financial management, financial sponsorship (Cl. 36);
• real estate management (Cl. 36);
• stock brokerage services (Cl. 36);
• transportation logistics (Cl. 39);
• energy auditing (Cl. 42);
• graphic design of promotional materials (Cl. 42);
• legal services in relation to the negotiation of contracts for others (Cl. 45);
• licensing of intellectual property, legal administration of licences, copyright management (Cl. 45);
• registration of domain names (Cl. 45).

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 35 as per NICE Classification: