Trademark Class 26: Lace and Embroidery

According to NICE Classification, Trademark Class 26 is opted to register a trademark for lace and Embroidery.

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 to trademark a goods or services into classes most appropriate to their business.

TM Class 26 include lace and embroidery, ribbons and braid; buttons, hooks and eyes, pins and needles; artificial flowers.

You would not use Trademark Class 26 if you were registering for:

• Jewellery (Class 14-  Jewellery, Precious Stones and Metals)

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 26 may register in these other classes too.

If you are not sure while choosing Class 26 for your product, you also consider the following “Related Classes”: Class 23- Yarns and Threads, Class 24- Textile and Textile Goods, Class 35- Advertising and Business Services, and Class 42- Science and Technology Services.

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 Chemicals in Class 1 and Rubber in Class 17, 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 26

• Accessories for apparel, sewing articles and decorative textile articles, appliqués [haberdashery], badges for wear, beads other than for making jewelry, not of precious metal, belt clasps, birds' feathers [clothing accessories], binding needles, bobbins for retaining embroidery floss or wool [not parts of machines], blouse fasteners/dress body fasteners, bodkins, boxes for needles, brassards/arm bands [clothing accessories], braids, brooches [clothing accessories], buckles [clothing accessories], buttons, chenille [passementerie], competitors' numbers, collar supports, cords for clothing, cords for rimming, corset busks/whalebones for corsets, for clothing, darning needles, darning lasts, edgings for clothing, embroidering crochet hooks, elastic ribbons, embroidery/fancy goods [embroidery], expanding bands for holding sleeves, fastenings for suspenders/fastenings for braces, eyelets for clothing, false hems, fastenings for clothing/dress fastenings, feathers [clothing accessories], festoons [embroidery], fringes, gold embroidery, haberdashery, except thread, frills [lacework], frills for clothing, hat ornaments, not of precious metal, heat adhesive patches for repairing textile articles, hooks for corsets, hooks [haberdashery], knitting needles, hook and pile fastening tapes, lace for edgings, lace trimmings/passementerie, mica spangles, letters for marking linen, monogram tabs for marking linen/numerals or letters for marking linen, needle cushions, needle cases, needles, numerals for marking linen, needles for wool combing machines, ornamental novelty badges [buttons], heat adhesive patches for decoration of textile articles [haberdashery], ostrich feathers [clothing accessories], picot [lace], pin cushions, pins, reins for guiding children, other than jewelry [jewelry (Am.)], prize ribbons, ribbons [haberdashery], rosettes [haberdashery], saddlers' needles, rug hooks, sewing boxes, sewing thimbles, sewing needles, shoe ornaments, not of precious metal, shoe eyelets, shoe fasteners, shoe hooks, shoemakers' needles, shoe buckles, shoe laces, shoulder pads for clothing, shuttles for making fishing nets, silver embroidery, skirt flounces, spangles for clothing, snap fasteners, tapes for curtain headings, tassels [haberdashery], tinsels [trimmings for clothing]/orsedew [trimmings for clothing], trimmings for clothing, top-knots [pompoms], trouser clips for cyclists, zip fasteners/slide fasteners [zippers]/zippers, woolen laces, zippers for bags/zip fasteners for bags.

• Artificial fruit, flowers and vegetables, artificial fruit, artificial flowers, artificial plants, artificial garlands, wreaths of artificial flowers.

• Hair ornaments, hair rollers, hair fastening articles, and false hair, barrettes [hair-slides], bows for the hair, false moustaches, false beards, false hair, hair bands, hair pins, hair grips [slides]/slides [hair grips], hair ornaments, hair curling pins, hair nets, hair coloring caps/hair coloring caps, hair curlers, hair curling papers, hair extensions, other than hand implements, human hair, toupees, wigs, plaited hair/tresses of hair.