Trademark Class 16

Overview of Trademark Class 16

Trademark Class 16 includes Paper and cardboard, Printed matter, Bookbinding material, Photographs, Paintbrushes, Instructional and teaching materials. Moreover, the Stationery and office requisites, Adhesives for stationery or household purposes, Drawing materials and materials for artists, Plastic sheets, films and bags for wrapping and packaging; Printers' type, printing blocks are also included in this Trademark Class 16.

Concept of Trademark Classification

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Goods classified under Trademark Class 16

• Plastic sheets, sacks and bags for wrapping and packaging.
• Paper knives;
• Duplicators;

Trademark Class 16 mainly consists of paper, goods made from that material and office requisites.

Goods NOT classified under Trademark Class 16

• Paints;
• Hand tools for artists (for example, spatulas, and sculptors’ chisels);
• Certain goods made of paper and cardboard;
• Colors

List of Related (Coordinated) Classes for Trademark Class 16

If in case the company or individual not sure whether to go for Trademark Registration under Class 16, in that case, following ‘coordinated’ classes may be considered.Those are as follows:-

List of Goods Classified under Trademark Class 16

• Xuan paper for Chinese painting and calligraphy
• Writing slates
• Writing paper
• Writing or drawing books
• Writing materials
• Writing instruments
• Writing chalk
• Writing cases [stationery]
• Writing cases [sets]
• Writing brushes
• Writing board erasers
• Wristbands for the retention of writing instruments
• Wrapping paper / packing paper
• Wood pulp paper
• Wood pulp board [stationery]
• Waxed paper
• Viscose sheets for wrapping
• Vignetting apparatus
• Typewriters, electric or non-electric
• Typewriter ribbons
• Typewriter keys
• Type [numerals and letters] / letters [type]
• Trays for sorting and counting money
• Transparencies [stationery]
• Transfers [decalcomanias] / decalcomanias
• Trading cards other than for games
• Tracing patterns
• Tracing paper
• Tracing needles for drawing purposes
• Tracing cloth
• Towels of paper
• Toilet paper / hygienic paper
• Tissues of paper for removing make-up
• Tickets
• Terrestrial globes
• Teaching materials [except apparatus]
• Tailors’ chalk
• Tags for index cards
• Tablemats of paper
• Tablecloths of paper
• Table napkins of paper
• Table linen of paper
• Stuffing of paper or cardboard
• Stickers [stationery]
• Stencils [stationery]
• Stencils
• Stencil plates
• Stencil cases
• Steel pens
• Steel letters
• Steatite [tailor’s chalk]
• Stationery
• Starch paste [adhesive] for stationery or household purposes
• Stapling presses [office requisites]
• Stands for pens and pencils
• Stamps [seals]
• Stamp stands
• Stamp pads
• Square rulers
• Spools for inking ribbons
• Song books
• Slate pencils
• Silver paper
• Signboards of paper or cardboard
• Shields [paper seals]
• Sheets of reclaimed cellulose for wrapping
• Sewing patterns
• Self-adhesive tapes for stationery or household purposes
• Seals [stamps]
• Sealing wax
• Sealing wafers
• Sealing stamps
• Sealing machines for offices
• Sealing compounds for stationery purposes
• Scrapers [erasers] for offices
• School supplies [stationery]
• Rubber erasers
• Rosaries / chaplets
• Rollers for typewriters
• Punches [office requisites]
• Prospectuses
• Prints [engravings]
• Printing type
• Printing sets, portable [office requisites]
• Printing blocks
• Printers’ reglets
• Printers’ blankets, not of textile
• Printed timetables
• Printed publications
• Printed matter
• Posters
• Postcards
• Postage stamps
• Portraits
• Polymer modeling clay
• Plastics for modeling
• Plastic film for wrapping
• Plastic cling film, extensible, for palletization
• Plastic bubble packs for wrapping or packaging
• Place mats of paper
• Placards of paper or cardboard
• Pictures
• Photographs [printed]
• Photograph stands
• Photo-engravings
• Periodicals
• Perforated cards for jacquard looms
• Pens [office requisites]
• Penholders
• Pencils
• Pencil sharpening machines, electric or non-electric
• Pencil sharpeners, electric or non-electric
• Pencil leads
• Pencil lead holders
• Pencil holders
• Pen wipers
• Pen clips
• Pen cases / boxes for pens
• Pastels [crayons]
• Passport holders
• Parchment paper
• Paper mâché
• Paperweights
• Paper-clips
• Paper tapes and cards for the recordable computer programmers
• Paper shredders for office use
• Paper sheets [stationery]
• Paper ribbons
• Paper knives [cutters] [office requisites] / paper cutters [office requisites] / paper knives [office requisites]
• Paper for recording machines
• Paper for radiograms
• Paper coffee filters
• Paper clasps
• Paper bows
• Paper
• Pantographs [drawing instruments]
• Pamphlets
• Palettes for painters
• Painters’ easels
• Painters’ brushes
• Paintbrushes
• Paint trays
• Paint boxes [articles for use in school]
• Page holders
• Pads [stationery]
• Packing [cushioning, stuffing] materials of paper or cardboard
• Packaging material made of starches
• Oleographs
• Office requisites, except furniture
• Office perforators
• Obliterating stamps
• Numbers [type]
• Numbering apparatus
• Note books
• Nibs of gold
• Nibs
• Newspapers
• Newsletters
• Musical greeting cards
• Moulds for modeling clays [artists’ materials] / molds for modelling clays [artists’ materials]
• Money clips
• Moisteners for gummed surfaces [office requisites]
• Moisteners [office requisites]
• Modeling wax, not for dental purposes
• Modeling paste
• Modeling materials
• Modeling clay
• Mimeograph apparatus and machines
• Mats for beer glasses
• Marking pens [stationery]
• Marking chalk
• Manuals [handbooks] / handbooks [manuals]
• Manifolds [stationery]
• Magazines [periodicals]
• Luminous paper
• Loose-leaf binders
• Lithographs
• Lithographic works of art
• Lithographic stones
• Letter trays
• Ledgers [books]
• Labels, not of textile
• Isinglass for stationery or household purposes
• Inkwells
• Inkstands
• Inking sheets for duplicators
• Inking sheets for Document reproducing machines
• Inking ribbons for computer printers
• Inking ribbons
• Inking pads
• Ink stones [ink reservoirs]
• Ink sticks
• Ink
• Indian inks
• Indexes
• Index cards [stationery]
• Humidity control sheets of paper or plastic for foodstuff packaging
• House painters’ rollers
• Holders for stamps [seals]
• Holders for checkbooks [cheque books]
• Histological sections for teaching purposes
• Hectographs
• Hat boxes of cardboard
• Handwriting specimens for copying
• Hand-rests for painters
• Handkerchiefs of paper
• Hand labeling appliances
• Gums [adhesives] for stationery or household purposes
• Gummed tape [stationery]
• Gummed cloth for stationery purposes
• Greeting cards
• Graphic reproductions
• Graphic representations
• Graphic prints
• Graining combs
• Gluten [glue] for stationery or household purposes
• Glue for stationery or household purposes / pastes for stationery or household purposes
• Geographical maps
• Garbage bags of paper or of plastics
• Galley racks [printing]
• French curves
• Franking machines for office use / postage meters for office use
• Fountain pens
• Forms, printed
• Folders for papers / jackets for papers
• Folders [stationery]
• Flyers
• Flower-pot covers of paper / covers of paper for flower pots
• Flags of paper
• Finger-stalls [office requisites]
• Filtering materials [paper]
• Filter paper
• Files [office requisites]
• Figurines [statuettes] of paper Mache
• Face towels of paper
• Fabrics for bookbinding
• Etchings
• Etching needles
• Erasing shields
• Erasing products
• Envelopes [stationery]
• Envelope sealing machines, for offices
• Engravings
• Engraving plates
• Embroidery designs [patterns]
• Electrotypes
• Electrocardiograph paper
• Elastic bands for offices
• Duplicators
• Drawing t-squares
• Drawing squares
• Drawing sets
• Drawing rulers
• Drawing pins / thumbtacks
• Drawing pens
• Drawing pads
• Drawing materials
• Drawing instruments
• Drawing boards
• Drawer liners of paper, perfumed or not
• Document laminators for office use
• Document holders [stationery]
• Document files [stationery]
• Diagrams
• Desk mats
• Credit card imprinters, non-electric
• Cream containers of paper
• Covers [stationery] / wrappers [stationery]
• Correcting tapes [office requisites]
• Correcting ink [heliography]
• Correcting fluids [office requisites]
• Cords for bookbinding / bookbinding cords
• Copying paper [stationery]
• Conical paper bags
• Composing sticks
• Composing frames [printing]
• Compasses for drawing
• Comic books
• Coasters of paper
• Cloth for bookbinding / bookbinding cloth
• Clips for offices / staples for offices
• Clipboards
• Cigar bands
• Chromolithographs [chromos] / chromos
• Chart pointers, non-electronic
• Charcoal pencils
• Chalk holders
• Chalk for lithography
• Catalogues
• Cases for stamps [seals]
• Cards / charts
• Cardboard tubes
• Cardboard
• Carbon paper
• Canvas for painting
• Calendars
• Cabinets for stationery [office requisites]
• Boxes of cardboard or paper
• Bottle wrappers of cardboard or paper
• Bottle envelopes of cardboard or paper
• Books
• Bookmarkers
• Booklets
• Bookends
• Bookbindings
• Bookbinding material
• Bookbinding apparatus and machines [office equipment]
• Blueprints / plans
• Blotters
• Blackboards
• Biological samples for use in microscopy [teaching materials]
• Binding strips [bookbinding]
• Bibs of paper
• Balls for ball-point pens
• Bags for microwave cooking
• Bags [envelopes, pouches] of paper or plastics, for packaging
• Atlases
• Artists’ watercolor [watercolour] saucers / artists’ watercolor saucers / artists’ watercolour saucers / watercolor [watercolour] saucers for artists
• Arithmetical tables / calculating tables
• Architects’ models
• Aquarelles / watercolors [paintings] / watercolours [paintings]
• Apparatus for mounting photographs
• Announcement cards [stationery]
• Almanacs
• Albums / scrapbooks
• Advertisement boards of paper or cardboard
• Adhesives [glues] for stationery or household purposes
• Adhesive tapes for stationery or household purposes
• Adhesive tape dispensers [office requisites]
• Adhesive bands for stationery or household purposes
• Addressing machines
• Address stamps
• Address plates for addressing machines
• Absorbent sheets of paper or plastic for foodstuff packaging