Trademark Class 22: Ropes,Sacks & Bags

According to NICE Classification, Trademark Class 22 is opted to register a trademark for ropes, string, nets, tents and awnings.

The NICE Classification was established in 1957 by NICE Agreement, and it divides marks into 45 different classes by Goods and Services (Classes 1-34 for Goods and Classes 35-45 for Services). The purpose of these classifications is to allow users to seek trademark goods or services into classes most appropriate to their business.

TM Class 22 includes ropes, string, nets, tents, awnings, tarpaulins, sails, sacks and bags (not included in other classes); padding and stuffing materials (except rubber or plastics); raw fibrous textile materials. It also includes cords and twines in natural or artificial textile fibres, paper or plastics.

Why Should We Opt For TM Class 22?

You would choose Trademark Class 22 if you were registering any of these types of goods:

• Animal hair
• Body bags
• Brattice cloth
• Fleece Wool

You would not use Trademark Class 22 if you were registering for:

• If you were registering: strings for musical instruments (Class 15 - Musical Instruments)

Related Classes

A related trademark class is one that is related to another class; this is due to the Indian Trademark Office (ITO) has determined that applicants registering within Class 22 may register in these other classes too.

If you are not sure while choosing Class 22 for your product, you also consider the following “Related Classes”: Class 44- Medical and Beauty Services, Class 3- Soaps, Perfumes and Cosmetics, Class 8- Hand Tools and Implements, Class 24- Textile and Textile Goods, Class 27- Carpets, Rugs and Mats, Class 23- Yarns and Threads, and Class 40- Printing and Treatments of Materials.

Trademark Registration fees also vary on bases of the Class system. You must pay a separate registration fee for each class of goods and services that you want to register. For instance, if you are going to register a trademark for Pharmaceuticals in Class 5 and Dental Instruments and Apparatus for Class 10, you should pay two separate fees.

It is necessary to choose the correct class at the time of registering a trademark, if you register a trademark in the wrong class, you must start the registration process from the beginning.

List of All Goods Covered Under TM Class 22

• Raw textile fibers and substitutes,animal hair, carbon fibers [fibers] for textile use, camel hair, carded wool, cocoons, coconut fiber [fiber]/coconut fiber/coconut fiber, combed wool, cotton tow, fleece wool, esparto grass, glass fibers [fibers] for textile use, fibrous gaskets for ships, hemp, hemp bands, jute, liber, horsehair, plastic fibers [fibers] for textile use, liners, raffia, ramie fiber, raw linen [flax], raw or treated wool, raw fibrous textile, shorn wool, raw cotton, raw silk, schappe [raw silk waste]/silk waste, silk flock, textile fibers [fibers]/textile fibers/textile fibers, tow, wool flock, vitreous silica fibers [fibers] for textile use, covers for camouflage, Goods made of textile and fibers, tarred brattice cloth.

• Slings and bands, bands, not of metal, braces, not of metal, for wrapping or binding, for handling loads/harness, not of metal, hammocks, ladder tapes for Venetian blinds/ladder tapes or webbing for Venetian blinds, for handling loads, slings, not of metal, for handling loads, straps, not of metal, strips for tying-up vines, for handling loads/belts, not of metal, for handling loads, wrapping or binding bands, not of metal.

• Bags and sacks for packages, storage and transport, bags for washing hosiery, body bags, mail bags, bags [sacks] for the transport and storage of materials in bulk, pouches] of textile, for packaging, sacks [bags] of textile, for packaging/bags [envelopes.

• Tarpaulins, awnings, tents, and unfitted, awnings of textile, tents/awnings, vehicle covers, not fitted, awnings of synthetic materials, tarpaulins.

• Sails, canvas for sails, sails for ski sailing, sails.

• Ropes and strings, binding thread, not of metal, cables, not of metal, for agricultural purposes, car towing ropes, cords for hanging pictures, packing rope, rope ladders, ropes, ropes, not of metal, packing string, sash cords, sheaf-binding yarns, string, thread, twine made of paper, wax ends, not of metal, for wrapping or binding, whipcord.

• Nets, nets for camouflage, fishing nets, nets, network, net pens for fish farming, purse seines, twine for nets, snares [nets].

• Padding and stuffing materials, cotton waste [flock] for padding and stuffing, down [feathers], feathers for bedding, eiderdown, feathers for stuffing upholstery, kapok, packing [cushioning, stuffing] materials, flock [stuffing], grasses for upholstering, not of rubber or plastics, padding materials, sawdust, seaweed for stuffing/sea wrack, not of rubber or plastics/stuffing, not of rubber or plastic, sisal, straw for stuffing upholstery, of straw, for bottles, straw wrappers for bottles/bottle envelopes of straw/packing, upholstery wool [stuffing], wadding for padding and stuffing upholstery, wadding for filtering, wood wool, wood shavings.