Trademark Class 15: Musical Instruments

A comprehensive guide to Class 15 of the Trademark Filing Classification. Trademarks must be applied or registered under classes and each class represents a distinct class of goods or services. In this post, we comprehensively cover the goods which fall under Class 15 of trademark classification.

Trademark Class 15

Trademark Class 15 pertains to musical instruments. The following goods are also classified under Class 15:
  • Mechanical pianos and their accessories;
  • Musical boxes;
  • Electrical and electronic musical instruments.
The following goods must NOT be classified under Class 15:
  • Apparatus for the recording, transmission, amplification and reproduction of sound.

List of goods classified under Trademark Class 15

  • Accordions
  • Acoustic bass guitars
  • Acoustic basses
  • Acoustic guitars
  • Autoplaying electric pianos
  • Autoplaying electronic pianos
  • Bagpipes
  • Bags specially adapted for holding musical instruments
  • Balalaikas [stringed musical instruments]
  • Bamboo flutes
  • Bamboo vertical pipes (hichiriki)
  • Bamboo vertical pipes (shoh)
  • Bandonians
  • Bandonions
  • Banjos
  • Barrel organs
  • Bass drum sticks
  • Bass drums
  • Bass drumsticks
  • Bass guitars
  • Basses [musical instruments]
  • Bassoon
  • Bassoons
  • Batons (Conductors' -)
  • Bellows for musical instruments
  • Bongo drums
  • Bow nuts for musical instruments
  • Bows for musical instruments
  • Brass instruments
  • Bridges for musical instruments
  • Buccins
  • Buccins [trumpets]
  • Bugles
  • Capos
  • Carillons [musical instruments]
  • Carrying cases for musical instruments
  • Cases adapted for musical instruments
  • Cases for musical instruments
  • Castanets
  • Catgut for musical instruments
  • Celestes
  • Cello endpin stoppers
  • Cellos
  • Chimes [musical instruments]
  • Chin rests for violins
  • Chinese flute membranes
  • Chinese flutes
  • Chinese ocarinas (Xun)
  • Chinese vertical bamboo flutes (Xiao)
  • Chinese zither stands
  • Chinese zithers
  • Clarinets
  • Clarionets
  • Clarions
  • Clavicymbals
  • Colophony for stringed musical instruments
  • Computer controlled musical instruments
  • Concertinas
  • Conductors' batons
  • Conga drums
  • Contrabasses
  • Cornets
  • Cornets [musical instruments]
  • Covers adapted for guitars
  • Covers (Shaped -) for musical instruments
  • Cowbells being musical instruments
  • Cymbals
  • Dampers for musical instruments
  • Devices for tuning musical instruments
  • Didgeridoos
  • Djembes
  • Double basses
  • Double bassoons
  • Drum kits
  • Drum machines
  • Drum pedals
  • Drum pedals [musical instruments]
  • Drum practice pads
  • Drum sticks
  • Drumheads
  • Drums
  • Drums [musical instrument]
  • Drums [musical instruments]
  • Drumsticks
  • Dulcimers
  • Ebonite mouth pieces for musical instruments
  • Electric and electronic musical instruments
  • Electric bass guitars
  • Electric basses
  • Electric carillons
  • Electric carillons [musical instruments]
  • Electric guitars
  • Electric keyboards [musical instruments]
  • Electric musical instruments
  • Electric pianos
  • Electrical musical instruments
  • Electronic apparatus for synthesising music [musical instrument]
  • Electronic automatically controlled rhythm machines
  • Electronic background music machines
  • Electronic drum pads
  • Electronic drums
  • Electronic keyboards [musical instruments]
  • Electronic melody instruments
  • Electronic musical apparatus for instruction
  • Electronic musical apparatus and instruments
  • Electronic musical apparatus for accompaniment
  • Electronic musical apparatus for practice
  • Electronic musical instruments
  • Electronic musical instrument tuners
  • Electronic musical keyboards
  • Electronic musical synthesizers
  • Electronic organs
  • Electronic pianos
  • Electronic practice mutes for musical instruments
  • Electronic rhythm machines
  • Electronic sound effects machines [synthesizers]
  • Electronic synthesizers
  • Electronic synthesizers being musical instruments
  • Electronically operated computer controlled musical apparatus
  • Electronically operated musical apparatus
  • Electronically operated musical instruments
  • End pins for cellos
  • End pins for double basses
  • English horns
  • Erhu (a two-stringed bowed musical instrument)
  • Erhu bows
  • Erhu strings
  • Euphoniums
  • Finger plectrums
  • Fingerboards for stringed musical instruments
  • Flutes
  • Flutes (Bamboo -)
  • Flutes being musical instruments
  • French horns
  • Glockenspiel
  • Glockenspiels
  • Gongs
  • Grand pianos
  • Guiros
  • Guitar armrests
  • Guitar capos
  • Guitar picks
  • Guitar saddles
  • Guitar shoulder straps
  • Guitar straps
  • Guitar strings
  • Guitar strings incorporating steel
  • Guitar strings made from steel
  • Guitar toggle switch tips
  • Guitar tuning cranks
  • Guitars
  • Handbells
  • Handbells [musical instruments]
  • Harmonicas
  • Harmoniums
  • Harp strings
  • Harps
  • Harpsichords
  • Hats with bells [musical instruments]
  • Hichiriki [Japanese vertical flutes]
  • Horns
  • Horns [musical instruments]
  • Horsehair for bows for musical instruments
  • Horsehair for violin bows
  • Huqin [Chinese violins]
  • Instrument mutes
  • Instruments (Musical -)
  • Intensity regulators for mechanical pianos
  • Iron xylophones
  • Japanese bamboo clarinets (shakuhachi)
  • Japanese drums (taiko)
  • Japanese flutes (yokobue)
  • Japanese hand drums (tsuzumi)
  • Japanese lutes [biwa]
  • Japanese picks [tsume]
  • Japanese plectrums [bachi]
  • Japanese traditional musical instruments
  • Jews' harps [musical instruments]
  • Kazoos
  • Kazoos [not being toys]
  • Kettledrum frames
  • Kettledrums
  • Keyboard instruments
  • Keyboard instruments [musical]
  • Keyboards for musical instruments
  • Keys for musical instruments
  • Korean zither with six strings [Geo-mun-go]
  • Korean zither with twelve strings [Ga-ya-geum]
  • Koto [Japanese stringed musical instruments]
  • Languets
  • Lutes
  • Lyres
  • Mallets for musical instruments
  • Mandolas
  • Mandolins
  • Maracas
  • Marimba
  • Marimbas
  • Mechanical, electric and electronic musical instruments
  • Mechanical musical instruments
  • Mechanical pianos
  • Melodicas
  • Metal bells [musical instruments]
  • Morin khuur [Mongolian bowed stringed instrument]
  • Mouthpiece caps for musical instruments
  • Mouthpieces for musical instruments
  • Movements for musical boxes
  • Music boxes
  • Music pitch pipes
  • Music rests for musical instruments
  • Music rolls [piano]
  • Music stands
  • Music stands adapted for use with musical instruments
  • Music synthesizers
  • Musical accessories
  • Musical boxes
  • Musical boxes in the form of porcelain bisque figurines
  • Musical boxes [not toys]
  • Musical instrument cases
  • Musical instrument harnesses
  • Musical instrument stands
  • Musical instrument straps
  • Musical instruments
  • Musical instruments controlled by microprocessor
  • Musical instruments controlled by computer
  • Musical instruments for children
  • Musical instruments in the nature of steel drums
  • Musical instruments incorporating apparatus for modifying audio signals
  • Musical instruments incorporating arrangements for modifying audio signals
  • Musical instruments incorporating apparatus for producing audio signals
  • Musical instruments incorporating arrangements for producing audio signals
  • Musical keyboard carrying cases
  • Musical synthesizers
  • Musical wind instruments
  • Mutes for musical instruments
  • Oboes
  • Ocarinas
  • Organs
  • Organs [musical instruments]
  • Oriental fiddles [kokyu]
  • Oriental harps [koto]
  • Pedals for musical instruments
  • Pegs for musical instruments
  • Percussion instruments
  • Percussion instruments [musical]
  • Percussion musical instruments
  • Perforated music rolls
  • Perforated music rolls for use in player pianos
  • Piano covers [shaped]
  • Piano keyboards
  • Piano keys
  • Piano strings
  • Pianofortes
  • Pianos
  • Piccolos
  • Picks for stringed instruments
  • Picks for stringed musical instruments
  • Pipa [Chinese guitars]
  • Pipas (Chinese lutes)
  • Pitch pipes (Musical -)
  • Playable electronic sound synthesizers
  • Player pianos
  • Plectra
  • Plectrums
  • Plugs for converting open hole flutes to closed hole flutes
  • Protectors for Chinese flute membranes
  • Punched cards containing music for use with pianoforte
  • Punched disks containing music for use with pianoforte
  • Punched paper containing music for use with pianoforte
  • Punched paper tape rolls containing music for use with pianoforte
  • Punched paper tapes containing music for use with pianoforte
  • Punched tapes containing music for use with pianoforte
  • Racks adapted to hold musical instruments
  • Rainmaker [musical instruments]
  • Rattles being musical instruments
  • Rattles [musical instruments]
  • Recorders [musical instruments]
  • Reeds
  • Reeds being parts of musical instruments
  • Reeds for musical instruments
  • Reeds for use in woodwind mouthpieces
  • Reeds [musical instruments]
  • Reproducing pianos
  • Robotic drums
  • Rolls (Perforated music -)
  • Rosin for stringed musical instruments
  • Saxophones
  • Serpentines
  • Sheet music stands
  • Sheet music (Turning apparatus for -)
  • Sheng [Chinese musical wind instruments]
  • Shofars
  • Short bamboo flutes [Danso]
  • Singing bowls
  • Sistrums
  • Sitars
  • Skins for drums
  • Snare drums
  • Snare wires for use with snare drums
  • Snares
  • Sound boards
  • Sound effects machines being musical instruments
  • Sound effects pedals for musical instruments
  • Stands for musical instruments
  • Stands (Music -)
  • Steel drums [musical instruments]
  • Sticks (Drum -)
  • Sticks for bows for musical instruments
  • Straps for musical instruments
  • String instruments
  • Stringed instruments
  • Stringed musical instruments
  • Strings for japanese style stringed instruments
  • Strings for musical instruments
  • Strings for western musical instruments
  • Strings for Western style musical instruments
  • Struck stringed instruments
  • Suona [Chinese trumpets]
  • Synthesizers (Music -)
  • Synthesizers [musical instruments]
  • Synthetic music apparatus
  • Tambourines
  • Three-stringed japanese guitars (shamisen)
  • Timpani
  • Tom-toms
  • Tongues [parts of musical instruments]
  • Tongues [reeds]
  • Tonometers [tuning forks]
  • Traditional Japanese musical instruments
  • Triangles [musical instruments]
  • Tripods for musical instruments
  • Trombones
  • Trumpets
  • Tubas
  • Tubular bells
  • Tuners for electronic musical instruments
  • Tuners for musical instruments
  • Tuning apparatus for musical instruments
  • Tuning devices for musical instruments
  • Tuning forks
  • Tuning hammers
  • Turning apparatus for sheet music
  • Ukeleles
  • Ukuleles
  • Valves for musical instruments
  • Violas
  • Violin chin rests
  • Violins
  • Western style musical instruments
  • Whistles [musical instruments]
  • Wind instruments
  • Wind instruments [musical]
  • Wind pipes for organs
  • Woodwind instruments
  • Woodwind musical instruments
  • Xylophones
  • Zampognas [bagpipes]
  • Zithers

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