The class of the trademark class, what is a trademark .

A trademark class refers to the classification of a trademark. The classification includes a total of 45 categories, including 34 categories of goods and 11 categories of service items, including more than 10,000 goods and service items; It is precisely for the needs of trademark search, examination and management that certain goods with common attributes are grouped together into a class, and all goods and services are divided into 45 classes to form a trademark classification. Therefore, for trademark registrants, when registering a trademark, it is necessary to apply for the class according to the classification of the trademark.

Trademarks approved and registered by the Trademark Office are registered trademarks, including commodity trademarks, service trademarks, collective trademarks, and certification trademarks; The trademark registrant enjoys the exclusive right to use the trademark and is protected by law.

Trademark is used by the producer or operator of goods in the goods they produce, manufacture, process, select or distribute or the provider of services in the services they provide, and is used to distinguish the goods or services, including words, graphics, letters, numbers, three-dimensional signs, color combinations and sounds, etc., as well as the combination of the above elements, signs with distinctive characteristics, and is a product of the modern economy.

Article 3 of the Trademark Law of the People's Republic of China is a registered trademark approved by the Trademark Office, including commodity trademarks, service trademarks, collective trademarks and certification trademarks; The trademark registrant enjoys the exclusive right to use the trademark and is protected by law.

For the purposes of this Law, the term "collective trademark" refers to a sign registered in the name of a group, association or other organization for use by the members of the organization in commercial activities to indicate the user's membership in the organization.

For the purposes of this Law, the term "certification mark" refers to a sign controlled by an organization that has the ability to supervise a certain kind of goods or services, and is used by an entity or individual other than the organization for its goods or services to prove the origin, raw materials, manufacturing methods, quality or other specific qualities of the goods or services.

Special matters concerning the registration and management of collective trademarks and certification marks shall be prescribed by the administrative department for industry and commerce.

The trademark category refers to the category divided according to the goods or services, and the trademark registration is divided into 45 categories, such as the cherry blossom eye.

A trademark is a sign with distinctive features and is a product of modern economic development. Trademarks are also mainly divided into the following types:

1.Word trademarks: Trademarks limited to the composition of words, Chinese characters and minority characters, foreign characters and Arabic numerals, as well as trademarks composed of different words.

2.Figurative trademark: refers to a trademark composed of only figurative figures. Among them, it can also be divided into marking trademarks and geometric figure trademarks.

3.Natural figurative trademark: refers to a figurative trademark composed of natural objects such as people, animals and plants, and natural landscapes.

4.Alphabetic trademark: refers to the smallest writing unit of pinyin characters or phonetic symbols, including pinyin characters, foreign letters, English letters, Aladdin letters, etc.

5.Numerals and dead trademarks: Trademarks composed of Arabic numerals, Roman numerals or Chinese capital numbers.

6.Three-dimensional trademark: also known as three-dimensional trademark, refers to a trademark sign composed of three-dimensional three-dimensional object signs with three measures of length, width and height.

7.Color combination trademark: refers to a trademark composed of two or more colors arranged or combined. The trademark composed of words, patterns and colors is not a color combination trademark, but a general combination trademark;

8.Overall combination trademark: refers to a trademark composed of two or more components, also known as a composite trademark.

9.Audio trademark: refers to a group of ** composed of musical notes, or a trademark with a special sound as goods or services, that is, a sound trademark. At present, audio trademarks are only recognized in a few countries such as the United States, and cannot be registered as trademarks in China.

10.Smell trademark: refers to a special smell as a trademark to distinguish different goods and different services. At present, this kind of trademark is only recognized as a trademark in a few countries, and cannot be registered as a trademark in China.