TRADEMARK Registration in CLASS TWELVE (12)

INTRODUCTION:

Trademark Classification aids for the purpose of easy registration of all trademarks and service marks in various fields, under the National and International Trademark Offices worldwide. Different goods and services have been classified by the International (Nice) Classification of Goods and Services into 45 Trademark Classes (1 to 34 cover goods, and 35 to 45 cover services). This classification is used by Indian Trademark Registry to classify the trademarks. Every class requires a different registration and while applying for the Trademark registration, it is necessary to choose the right class. Trademark search is done while selecting an appropriate class for your goods and services. This is a classification of almost 80,000 products and services.

CLASS TWELVE OF TRADEMARK ACT:

The classification in Trademark Class 12 incorporates the entire Trademark registration identified with vehicles, devices, machines and equipment for locomotion by land, air or water. This class specifically includes Motors and engines as well as other additional parts used for land vehicles; Couplings and components for transmission for land vehicles; Land automobile and transportations; Human power-driven Trolleys and rickshaws; Mobility transportations; Air cushion vehicles; Water vehicles; Parts and fittings for Air and Space crafts and automobiles; Security, Anti-theft, and Safety Devices and gear for Vehicles.

The class specifically does not include few special automobiles not for transportation use; Convinced parts of vehicles; Railway material of metal; Motors, engines, pairing and transportation items other than for land vehicles; Parts of motors and engines.

If applicant is not sure whether to register in Class 12, then he might also consider the following “coordinated” classes: Class 7 - Machines, Class 35 - Advertising and Business Services, Class 37 - Construction and Repair Services, Class 42 - Science and Technology Services. A coordinated class is one that is related to another class, usually because the PTO has determined that applicants filing within Class 12 often file in these other classes, too.

List of goods under class 12: Air Vehicles; Airplane; Ambulances; Automobile bodies; Bicycle Bells; Bogies for railway cars; Brake shoes for vehicles; Bumpers; Automobile; Carriage; Cars; Cycle Car; Dining Car; Driving motors for land automobiles; Funnels for diesel; Hydroplanes; Lifting Cars; Motorcycles; Bicycles pumps; Polling Stock for railways; Vehicles Safety belts; Sleeping cars; Vehicle bumpers; Water vehicles; Electronic vehicles; Yachts; chairlifts, electric vehicles; military vehicles for transport; ski lifts; telpher railways [cable cars]/cable cars; vehicles for locomotion by land; air; water or rail; ambulances; automobiles; bicycles/cycles; caissons [vehicles]; camping cars/motor homes; caravans; carts; sports cars; sprinkling trucks; tilting-carts; tractors; trailers [vehicles]; tricycles; trolleys/hand cars, two-wheeled trolleys/luggage trucks/sack-barrows; vans [vehicles]; wagons; handling carts; tilt trucks etc,.

REGISTRED GOODS UNDER TRADEMARK CLASS 12:

• NAVY

Trademark Description: Bicycle and Parts thereof including Tyres and Tubes

• GENUINE STIFF

Trademark Description: Automobile Parts, Fittings & Daccessories, Auto Parts & Spare Parts

• KROSS

Trademark Description: Bicycles, Tricycles, all Parts, Fittings And Accessories thereof (Including Bicycle And Tricycles Tyres And Tubes).

• PARTECH

Trademark Description: Manufacturing of Vehicles; Apparatus for Locomotion by Land, Air or Water, Head Light and Horns

• JOY

Trademark Description: Bearings For Vehicles, Apparatus For Locomotion By Land Air Or Water, Silencer Auto Parts Auto Accessories, Wheel Balance Weight Bearings Used In Machinery, Speed Boats Semi Rigids, Yatchs, Vehicles; Motor Land Vehicles And Parts And Accessories.

• SURI KING

Trademark Description: Autombile Parts And Fittings Including Auto Electrical Parts And Accessories

REGISTRATIONS OF TRADEMARK CLASS TWELVE FOR METALS:

Trademark Search

Search for any identical or similar mark that is already available with Trademark Registry. Trademark Search has to be directed by the Trademark Registry Online Website.

Trademark Application Filing

After completion of the Trademark search, the Application for Trademark Registration will be filed with the Trademark Registrar. When the application is ready with the required details, the owner will file the Trademark Registering Application online or offline. For online application, Digital Signature Certificate is required, while, instead, for offline filing, an application has to be sent to the Trademark Registry office. Later the application is filed, the Registrar will review the application for any disagreements in it. 

Application for Allotment of Trademark

The application filed with the Trademark Registrar, then a Trademark Application Allotment Number, has to be provided within 2-3 working days. The Trademark Application can be traced online. After attaining the Trademark Application Allocation Number, the owner can use a TM symbol next to its logo.

Trademark Examination

The Trademark Application is sent to the Trademark Officer in the Trademark Registry Office to review the Trademark Application and check for the accuracy and issue of the Trademark Examination Report.

Publication of Trademark in a Trademark Journal

The anticipated Trademark is circulated in the Trademark Journal. The Trademark Journal contains all Trademarks that are accepted by the Trademark Registrar. The public has the chance to oppose the Trademark Registration if they consider that there will be damaged if the Trademark gets registered. If no objections are filed within 90 days, then the Trademark will be recorded permanently for the entity registering for Trademark.

Registration of Trademark

If there is no objection filed with the Trademark Registrar regarding the Trademark Application and Trademark Journal, a Trademark Certificate will be issued.

- Sameeksha Skukla