Trademark is a sign, symbol or mark used to differentiate between the goods sold by two or more manufacturers. A trademark protects your company’s identifying marks so that no other company can use them. The manufacture of goods and services are grouped into different classes. Each class requires a different registration.
Trademark is segregated in 45 different classes according to the NICE classification which is also known as International Certification of Goods and Services. Among those 45 classes, 34 classes come under Goods section and 11 classes come under Services section. Each class shows a specific category of Goods and Services.
Trademark Class 28 generally covers all forms of branding related to games, sporting goods, and gymnastic equipment. It also includes most equipment used for indoor sports as well.
Types of goods come under Trademark Class 28:
- Mountaineering equipment
- Track and field equipment (starting blocks, pole vaulting poles, shot put, etc.)
- Cricket, baseball, tennis, and hockey equipment
- Knee pads, elbow pads, shin guards, and men’s athletic supporters
- Hang gliders, sailboards, and masts
- Trampolines
- Swimming equipment
Types of goods that do not come under Trademark Class 28:
- Christmas tree candles
- Diving equipment
- Electrical lamps (garlands) for Christmas tree
- Fishing nets
- Clothing for gymnastics and sports
- Confectionery and chocolate decorations for Christmas trees
List of Good under Trademark Class 28:
- air pistols [toys]
- amusement machines, automatic and coin-operated
- arcade video game machines
- archery implements
- artificial fishing bait
- artificial snow for Christmas trees
- ascenders [mountaineering equipment]
- backgammon games
- bags especially designed for skis and surfboards
- ball pitching machines
- balls for games
- bar-bells
- baseball gloves
- batting gloves [accessories for games]
- bells for Christmas trees
- billiard table cushions
- billiard balls
- billiard markers
- billiard cues
- billiard cue tips
- billiard tables
- coin-operated billiard tables
- bingo cards
- bite indicators [fishing tackle]
- bite sensors [fishing tackle]
- bladders of balls for games
- board games
- bob-sleighs
- body-building apparatus / body rehabilitation apparatus / body-training apparatus
- bodyboards
- bowling apparatus and machinery
- bows for archery
- boxing gloves
- building blocks [toys]
- building games
- butterfly nets
- camouflage screens [sports articles]
- candle holders for Christmas trees
- caps for pistols [toys]
- carnival masks
- chalk for billiard cues
- chess games
- chessboards
- chest expanders [exercisers] / exercisers [expanders]
- chips for gambling
- Christmas trees of synthetic material
- Christmas tree stands
- clay pigeon traps
- clay pigeons [targets]
- climbers’ harness
- confetti
- conjuring apparatus
- controllers for game consoles
- controllers for toys
- counters [discs] for games
- creels [fishing traps]
- cricket bags
- cups for dice
- darts
- decoys for hunting or fishing / lures for hunting or fishing
- dice
- discuses for sports
- divot repair tools [golf accessories] / pitch mark repair tools [golf accessories]
- dolls
- dolls’ feeding bottles
- dolls’ beds
- dolls’ houses
- dolls’ clothes
- dolls’ rooms
- dominoes
- draughtboards / checkerboards
- draughts [games] / checkers [games]
- dumb-bells
- edges of skis
- elbow guards [sports articles]
- electronic targets
- explosive bonbons [Christmas crackers] / cosaques [toy fireworks]
- fairground ride apparatus
- fencing weapons
- fencing masks
- fencing gauntlets / fencing gloves
- fish hooks
- fishing tackle
- flippers for swimming / swimming webs [flippers]
- floats for fishing
- flying discs [toys]
- foosball tables
- games*
- apparatus for games
- gaming machines for gambling
- gloves for games
- golf clubs
- golf bags, with or without wheels
- golf gloves
- golf bag trolleys / golf bag carts
- gut for rackets
- gut for fishing
- appliances for gymnastics
- hang gliders
- harness for sailboards
- harpoon guns [sports articles]
- hockey sticks
- horseshoe games
- hunting game calls
- ice skates
- jigsaw puzzles
- kaleidoscopes
- kite reels
- kites
- knee guards [sports articles]
- landing nets for anglers
- in-line roller skates
- lines for fishing
- mah-jong
- marbles for games
- masks [playthings]
- masts for sailboards
- matryoshka dolls [wooden nested Russian dolls]
- men’s athletic supporters [sports articles]
- mobiles [toys]
- nets for sports
- novelties for parties, dances [party favors, favours]
- ornaments for Christmas trees, except illumination articles and confectionery
- pachinkos
- paintball guns [sports apparatus]
- paintballs [ammunition for paintball guns] [sports apparatus]
- paper party hats
- paragliders
- parlour games / parlor games
- percussion caps [toys] / detonating caps [toys]
- machines for physical exercises
- piñatas
- play balloons
- playing balls
- playing cards
- plush toys
- poles for pole vaulting
- portable games with liquid crystal displays
- practical jokes [novelties]
- protective paddings [parts of sports suits]
- punching bags
- puppets / marionettes
- quoits
- rackets / bats for games
- radio-controlled toy vehicles
- rattles [playthings]
- reels for fishing
- ring games
- rocking horses
- rods for fishing
- roller skates
- rollers for stationary exercise bicycles
- rosin used by athletes
- roulette wheels
- sailboards
- scale model vehicles
- scale model kits [toys]
- scent lures for hunting or fishing
- scooters [toys]
- scrapers for skis
- scratch cards for playing lottery games
- seal skins [coverings for skis]
- shin guards [sports articles]
- shuttlecocks
- skateboards
- skating boots with skates attached
- ski bindings
- skis
- skittles
- skittles [games] / ninepins
- sleds [sports articles]
- slides [playthings]
- sling shots [sports articles]
- slot machines [gaming machines]
- snow globes
- snowboards
- snowshoes
- soap bubbles [toys]
- sole coverings for skis
- spinning tops [toys]
- spring boards [sports articles]
- starting blocks for sports
- stationary exercise bicycles
- strings for rackets
- stuffed toys
- surf skis
- surfboard leashes
- surfboards
- swimming pools [play articles]
- swimming kick boards
- swimming belts
- swimming jackets
- swings
- tables for table tennis
- targets
- teddy bears
- tennis nets
- tennis ball throwing apparatus
- theatrical masks
- toy pistols
- toy vehicles
- toy models
- toy figures
- toys for domestic pets
- toys
- trampolines
- twirling batons
- video game machines
- water wings
- waterskis
- wax for skis
- weight lifting belts [sports articles]
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Note: This Post was last updated on January 19, 2023
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