Trademark Class 31: Grains, Fresh Fruits and Vegetables

A comprehensive guide to Class 31 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 31 of trademark classification.

Trademark Class 31

Trademark Class 31 pertains to grains and agricultural, horticultural and forestry products not included in other classes; live animals; fresh fruits and vegetables; seeds; natural plants and flowers; foodstuffs for animals; malt.

The following goods are also classified under Class 31:

  • Raw woods
  • Raw cereals
  • Fertilised eggs for hatching
  • Mollusca and crustacea (live).

Therefore, Trademark Class 31 mainly includes land products not having been subjected to any form of preparation for consumption, live animals and plants as well as foodstuffs for animals.

What Class 31 does not cover

The following goods must NOT be classified under Class 31:

  • Cultures of micro-organisms and leeches for medical purposes
  • Dietary supplements for animals
  • Semi-worked woods
  • Artificial fishing bait
  • Rice
  • Tobacco.
Nice Classification

List of goods classified under Trademark Class 31

167 goods listed under Class 31.

  • algae for human or animal consumption
  • algarovilla for animal consumption
  • almonds [fruits]
  • aloe vera plants
  • animal fattening preparations
  • animal foodstuffs
  • aromatic sand for pets [litter]
  • artichokes, fresh
  • bagasses of cane [raw material]
  • barley*
  • beans, fresh
  • beet, fresh
  • berries, fresh fruits
  • beverages for pets
  • bird food
  • bran
  • bran mash for animal consumption
  • bred stock
  • bulbs
  • bushes
  • by-products of the processing of cereals, for animal consumption
  • cattle cake
  • cattle food
  • cereal seeds, unprocessed
  • chestnuts, fresh
  • chicory roots
  • chicory, fresh
  • Christmas trees*
  • citrus fruit, fresh
  • cocoa beans, raw
  • coconut shell
  • coconuts
  • cola nuts
  • copra
  • crayfish, live
  • crustaceans, live
  • cucumbers, fresh
  • cuttle bone for birds
  • distillery waste for animal consumption
  • dog biscuits
  • draff
  • edible chews for animals
  • edible sesame, unprocessed
  • eggs for hatching, fertilised
  • fish meal for animal consumption
  • fish spawn
  • fish, live
  • fishing bait, live
  • flax meal [fodder]
  • flaxseed for animal consumption
  • flaxseed meal for animal consumption
  • flower bulbs
  • flowers, dried, for decoration
  • flowers, natural
  • fodder
  • forage
  • fruit residue [marc]
  • fruit, fresh
  • garden herbs, fresh
  • garlic, fresh
  • grains [cereals]
  • grains for animal consumption
  • grapes, fresh
  • groats for poultry
  • hay
  • hazelnuts
  • herrings, live
  • hop cones
  • hops
  • juniper berries
  • kola nuts
  • leeks, fresh
  • lemons, fresh
  • lentils, fresh
  • lettuce, fresh
  • lime for animal forage
  • linseed for animal consumption
  • linseed meal for animal consumption
  • litter peat
  • live animals
  • livestock fattening preparations
  • lobsters, live
  • locust beans, raw
  • maize
  • maize cake for cattle
  • malt for brewing and distilling
  • marc
  • marrows, fresh
  • mash for fattening livestock
  • meal for animals
  • menagerie animals
  • mushroom spawn for propagation
  • mushrooms, fresh
  • mussels, live
  • nettles
  • nuts [fruits]
  • oats
  • oil cake
  • olives, fresh
  • onions, fresh vegetables
  • oranges, fresh
  • oysters, live
  • palm trees
  • palms [leaves of the palm tree]
  • peanut cake for animals
  • peanut meal for animals
  • peanuts, fresh
  • peas, fresh
  • peppers [plants]
  • pet food
  • pine cones
  • plant seeds
  • plants
  • plants, dried, for decoration
  • pollen [raw material]
  • potatoes, fresh
  • poultry, live
  • preparations for egg laying poultry
  • products for animal litter
  • rape cake for cattle
  • raw barks
  • residual products of cereals for animal consumption
  • residue in a still after distillation
  • rhubarb, fresh
  • rice meal for forage
  • rice, unprocessed
  • roots for food
  • rose bushes
  • rough cork
  • rye
  • salmon, live
  • salt for cattle
  • sanded paper for pets [litter]
  • sardines, live
  • sea-cucumbers, live
  • seaweed for human or animal consumption
  • seed germ for botanical purposes
  • seedlings
  • seeds for planting
  • shellfish, live
  • shrubs
  • silkworm eggs
  • silkworms
  • sod
  • spinach, fresh
  • spiny lobsters, live
  • squashes, fresh
  • stall food for animals
  • straw [forage]
  • straw litter
  • straw mulch
  • strengthening animal forage
  • sugarcane
  • trees
  • truffles, fresh
  • trunks of trees
  • tuna, live
  • turf, natural
  • undressed timber
  • unsawn timber
  • vegetables, fresh
  • vine plants
  • wheat
  • wheat germ for animal consumption
  • wood chips for the manufacture of wood pulp
  • wreaths of natural flowers
  • yeast for animal consumption

Source: the Nice Classification (NCL) list of indications published by WIPO. The list guides the class you file in; the Registry decides the class on the facts of your mark.

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