All About Trademark Class 8

All About Trademark Class 8

Trademark Class 8 is a classification used by the USPTO and WIPO to categorize and register trademarks for hand tools and manual implements. It encompasses a wide range of products, including cutting, carving, and gardening tools, as well as razors, kitchen utensils, and personal grooming tools. Registering a trademark in Class 8 is vital for businesses in this sector to safeguard their brand identity and gain exclusive rights to use their mark in connection with these goods. Careful classification and conducting thorough trademark searches are essential to ensuring the uniqueness of the mark and avoiding potential conflicts with existing trademarks.

Important goods included in Trademark Class 8

The class 8 of trademarks is globally well-known for being related with hand tools & implements; hand-operated; cutlery; side arms, except firearms; razors. In general, the class 8 hand tools & implements are as follow:

• Hand-operating agricultural, gardening and landscaping tools.
• Hand-operated tools for carpenters, artists and other craft persons, for instance, hammers, chisel, and gravers
• Handles for hand-operated hand tools, such as knives and scythes.
• Electric and non-electric hand implements for personal grooming and body art, for example, razors, implements for hair curling, tattooing, and for manicure & pedicure.
• Hand-operated pumps
• Table cutlery, such as knives, forks, and spoons, including those made of precious metals.

Goods not included in Trademark Class 8

• Machine tools and implements driven by a motor: It has been included in class 7.
• Surgical cutlery: It included in class 10.
• Pumps for bicycle tyres: These have been included in class 12.
• Pumps specially adapted for use with ball or games: They have been classified under class 28.
• Side arms being firearms: These have been covered by trademark class 13
• Paper knives & paper shredders for office use: These are included in class 16.
• Handles for different objects: Handles for objects that are classified in various classes according to their function or purpose, for instance, walking stick handles, umbrella handles (include in class 18), broom handles (include in class 21).
• Serving utensils & kitchen utensils: Serving utensils like sugar tongs, ice tongs, pie servers & serving ladles and kitchen utensils like mixing spoons, pestles & mortars, nutcrackers & spatulas have been classified under trademark class 21.
• Fencing weapons: They have been covered under class 28.

List of popular Trademark Class 8 examples

• Gillette: Razors and razor blades, shaving instruments
• Bosch: Hand tools
• Dewalt: Hand tools, clamps, screwdrivers, etc.
• Hitachi: Hand tools and instruments
• Bajaj: Hand tools and instruments, cutlery, forks and spoons
• Tupperware: Cutlery, including forks & spoons, etc.

List of goods classified under Trademark Class 8

A

• Abrading instruments [hand instruments]
• Adzes [tools]
• Agricultural forks (hand tools)
• Agricultural implements, hand-operated
• Air pumps, hand-operated
• Annular screw plates
• Apparatus for destroying plant parasites, hand-operated
• Augers [hand tools]
• Awls
• Axes

B

• Bayonets
• Beard clippers
• Bench vices [hand implements]
• Bill-hooks
• Bits [parts of hand tools]
• Bits [hand tools]
• Blade sharpening instruments
• Blades for planes
• Blades [hand tools]
• Blades [weapons]
• Border shears
• Borers
• Bow saws
• Box cutters
• Braiders [hand tools]
• Branding irons
• Breast drills
• Budding knives

C

• Carpenters’ augers
• Carving folks
• Carving knives
• Cattle shearers
• Caulking irons
• Centre punches [hand tools]
• Ceramic knives
• Cheese slicers, non-electric
• Chisels
• Choppers being knives
• Clamps for carpenters or coopers
• Cleavers
• Clothes irons
• Crimping irons
• Crow-bars
• Curling tongs
• Cuticle tweezers/ cuticle nippers
• Cutlery
• Cutter bars [hand tools]
• Cutters
• Cutting tools [hand tools]

D

• Daggers
• Depilation appliances, electric and non-electric
• Dies [hand tools]/ screw stocks [hand tools]/ screw-thread cutters [hand tools]
• Diggers [hand tools]
• Ditchers [hand tools]
• Drawing knives
• Drill holders [hand tools]

E

• Ear-piercing apparatus
• Earth rammers [hand tools]
• Edge tools [hand tools]
• Egg slicers, non-electric
• Embossers [hand tools]
• Emergency hammers
• Emery grinding wheels
• Emery files
• Engraving needles
• Expanders [hand tools]
• Extension pieces for braces for screw taps
• Eyelash curlers

F

• Farriers’ knives
• Files [tools]
• Fingernail polishers, electric or non-electric/ nail buffers, electric or non-electric
• Fire irons
• Fireplace bellows [hand tools]
• Fish tapes [hand tools]/ draw wires [hand tools]
• Food processors, hand-operated
• Foundry ladles [hand tools]
• Frames for handsaws
• Fruit pickers [hand tools]
• Fullers [hand tools]
• Fulling tools [hand tools]

G

• Garden tools, hand-operated
• Gimlets [hand tools]
• Glaziers’ diamonds [parts of hand tools]
• Goffering irons
• Gouges [hand tools]
• Grafting tools [hand tools]
• Graving tools [hand tools]
• Grindstones [hand tools]/ sharpening wheels [hand tools]
• Guns [hand tools]
• Guns, hand-operated, for the extrusion of mastics

H

• Hackles [hand tools]
• Hainault scythes
• Hair braiders, electric
• Hair clippers for personal use, electric and non-electric
• Hair clippers for animals [hand instruments]
• Hair straightening irons
• Hair-removing tweezers
• Hammers [hand tools]
• Hand drills, hand-operated
• Hand tools, hand-operated
• Hand implements for hair curling
• Hand pumps
• Hand tools, hand-operated
• Hand-operated corn cob strippers
• Hand-operated fruit slicers
• Handles for hand-operated hand tools
• Harpoons
• Hatchets
• Hobby knives [scalpels]
• Hoes [hand tools]
• Holing axes/ mortise axes
• Hollowing bits [parts of hand tools]
• Hoop cutters [hand tools]
• Hunting knives

I

• Ice picks
• Implements for decanting liquids (hand tools)
• Insecticide vaporizers [hand tools]/ insecticide atomizers [hand tools]/ insecticide sprayers [hand tools]
• Instruments and tools for skinning animals
• Instruments for punching tickets
• Irons [non-electric hand tools]

J

• Jig-saws

K

• Kitchen mandolins
• Knife handles
• Knives

L

• Ladles [hand tools]
• Laser hair removal apparatus, other than for medical purposes
• Lasts [shoemakers’ hand tools]
• Lawn clippers [hand instruments]
• Leather strops
• Levers
• Lifting jacks, hand-operated
• Livestock marking tools/ cattle marking tools
• Long reach loppers

M

• Machetes
• Mallets [hand instruments]
• Manicure sets
• Manicure sets, electric
• Marline spikes
• Masons’ hammers
• Mattocks
• Meat claws
• Metal band stretchers (hand tools)
• Metal wire stretchers (hand tools)
• Milling cutters [hand tools]
• Mincing knives/ fleshing knives/ meat choppers
• Mitre boxes [hand tools]
• Money scoops
• Mortars for pounding (hand tools)
• Mortise chisels
• Moulding irons/ molding irons
• Multi-tool knives

N

• Nail clippers, electric or non-electric
• Nail drawers (hand tools)
• Nail extractors/ nail pullers, hand-operated
• Nail drawers [hand tools]
• Nail punches
• Nail nippers
• Nail files
• Nail files, electric
• Needle files
• Non-electric caulking guns
• Numbering punches

O

• Oyster openers

P

• Palette knives
• Paring irons [hand tools]
• Paring knives
• Pedicure sets
• Penknives
• Perforating tools [hand tools]
• Pickaxes
• Pickhammers / bushhammers
• Picks [hand tools]
• Pin punches
• Pincers/ nippers/ tongs
• Pizza cutters, non-electric
• Plane irons
• Planes
• Pliers
• Polishing irons [glazing tools]/ glazing irons
• Priming irons [hand tools]
• Pruning scissors/ secateurs
• Pruning knives
• Punch rings [knuckle dusters]/ knuckle dusters
• Punch pliers [hand tools]
• Punches [hand tools]

R

• Rabbeting planes
• Rakes [hand tools]
• Rammers [hand tools]/ pestles for pounding (hand tools)
• Rams [hand tools]
• Rasps [hand tools]
• Ratchets [hand tools]
• Razor strops
• Razor cases
• Razor blades
• Razors, electric or non-electric
• Reamer sockets
• Reamers
• Riveters [hand tools]
• Riveting hammers [hand tools]

S

• Sabres
• Sand trap rakes
• Saw blades [parts of hand tools]
• Saw holders
• Saws [hand tools]
• Scaling knives
• Scissors
• Scrapers [hand tools]
• Scraper for skis
• Scraping tools [hand tools]
• Screwdrivers, non-electric
• Sculptures’ chisels
• Scythe handles
• Scythe rings
• Scythe stones/ whetstones
• Scythes
• Sharpening stones
• Sharpening steels/ knife steels
• Sharpening instruments
• Shaving cases
• Shear blades
• Shearers [hand instruments]
• Shears
• Shovels [hand tools]
• Sickles
• Side arms, other than firearms
• Silver plate [knives, forks and spoons]
• Sledgehammers
• Spades [hand tools]
• Spanners [hand tools]/ wrenches [hand tools]
• Spatulas [hand tools]
• Spoons
• Squares [hand tools]
• Stamping-out tools [hand tools]/ stamps [hand tools]
• Stone hammers
• Stropping instruments
• Sword scabbards
• Swords
• Syringes for spraying insecticides

T

• Table cutlery [knives, forks and spoons]/ tableware [knives, forks and spoons]
• Table forks
• Table knives, forks, and spoons for babies
• Table knives, forks, and spoons of plastic
• Tap wrenches
• Taps [hand tools]
• Tattoo needles
• Thistle extractors [hand tools]
• Tin openers/ can openers, non-electric
• Tool belts [holders]
• Tree pruners
• Trowels [gardening]
• Trowels
• Truncheons/ bludgeons/ police batons
• Tube cutters [hand tools]
• Tube cutting instruments
• Tweezers

V

• Vegetable choppers
• Vegetable knives
• Vegetable peelers, hand-operated
• Vegetable slicers/ shredders, hand-operated
• Vegetable spiralizers, hand-operated
• Vices

W

• Weeding forks [hand tools]
• Whetstone holders
• Wick trimmers [scissors]
• Wine bottle foil cutters, hand-operated
• Wire strippers [hand tools]

Conclusion

This Trademark Class is a critical category within the trademark classification system that pertains to hand tools and various manual implements. It serves as a vital tool for businesses involved in the manufacturing or sale of these products to protect their brand identity and gain exclusive rights to use their trademarks in connection with Class 8 goods. Proper classification and conducting comprehensive trademark searches are fundamental steps in the trademark registration process, helping to ensure uniqueness and prevent potential conflicts with existing trademarks. Whether in the construction, gardening, grooming, or kitchen tool industries, registering a trademark in Class 8 is a key strategy for brand protection and recognition.

LegalPillers is here to help you to reduce the complications of classification & registration of the trademark, making sure that your brand has been safeguarded within this trademark class.

 

(FAQs) about Trademark Class 8

 

What is Trademark Class 8?

• Trademark Class 8 is one of the 45 classes used for trademark classification, primarily covering hand tools and manual implements.

What types of products are included in Class 8?

• Class 8 includes goods like hand-operated tools for cutting, carving, drilling, gardening tools, razors, and kitchen utensils.

Do I need to register my trademark in Class 8 if I sell hand tools online?

• Registering your trademark in Class 8 can provide brand protection if your business involves selling hand tools and related products.

Can I trademark a slogan related to hand tools in Class 8?

• Yes, slogans or taglines related to hand tools can be registered in Class 8.

Is trademark registration in Class 8 limited to the United States only?

• No, you can register trademarks in Class 8 internationally, as well, through processes like the Madrid Protocol.

Can I register a trademark in multiple classes, including Class 8?

• Yes, you can register a trademark in multiple classes to cover a broader range of goods or services.

What is the process for registering a trademark in Class 8?

• The process generally involves filing an application, conducting a trademark search, and paying the required fees.

What happens if someone else uses a similar trademark in Class 8?

• You may have legal grounds to challenge their use if it creates confusion with your registered mark.

Are there any common mistakes to avoid when registering a trademark in Class 8?

• Common mistakes include incomplete applications, inadequate trademark searches, and incorrect classification.

How long does a trademark registration in Class 8 last?

• Trademark registrations typically last ten years but can be renewed indefinitely.

Can I use my trademark internationally if it is registered in Class 8?

• A trademark registered in one country’s Class 8 does not automatically provide international protection. You should consider international trademark registration.

Can I apply for a trademark in Class 8 if I am not yet using it?

• Some jurisdictions allow you to file an intent-to-use application, but actual use may be required for full registration.

Is it necessary to hire an attorney for trademark registration in Class 8?

• While not mandatory, consulting with a trademark attorney can provide valuable guidance through the registration process.

What is the cost of trademark registration in Class 8?

• Registration fees vary by jurisdiction and depend on factors like the number of classes and the application method.

Can a trademark in Class 8 be transferred to another entity?

• Yes, trademark rights can typically be assigned or licensed to another entity.

How long does it take to get a trademark registered in Class 8?

• The duration varies by jurisdiction, but it can take several months to several years.

Can I register a trademark in Class 8 if my business is not based in the United States?

• Yes, businesses from other countries can also register trademarks in Class 8 in the United States.

What happens if I don’t renew my trademark in Class 8?

• If you don’t renew your trademark, you may lose the exclusive rights associated with it.

Can I cancel or invalidate a trademark in Class 8?

• Yes, trademarks can be canceled or invalidated in certain circumstances, such as improper registration or becoming generic.

Are there any specific regulations for trademarks in Class 8?

• Trademarks in Class 8 are subject to general trademark regulations and guidelines applicable to all classes.