Trademark Class 38: Telecommunications

A comprehensive guide to Class 38 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 services which fall under Class 38 of trademark classification.

Trademark Class 38

Trademark Class 38 pertains to services allowing at least one person to communicate with another by a sensory means. Such services include those which: 1. allow one person to talk to another, 2. transmit messages from one person to another, and 3. place a person in oral or visual communication with another (radio and television).

The following services are also classified under Class 38:

  • Services which consist essentially of the diffusion of radio or television programmes.

What Class 38 does not cover

The following services must NOT be classified under Class 38:

  • Radio advertising services
  • Telephone marketing (telemarketing) services
Nice Classification

List of services classified under Trademark Class 38

44 goods listed under Class 38.

  • cable television broadcasting
  • communications by cellular phones
  • communications by computer terminals
  • communications by fiber optic networks
  • communications by fibre optic networks
  • communications by telegrams
  • communications by telephone
  • computer aided transmission of messages and images
  • electronic bulletin board services [telecommunications services]
  • electronic mail
  • facsimile transmission
  • information about telecommunication
  • message sending
  • news agencies
  • paging services [radio, telephone or other means of electronic communication]
  • providing access to databases
  • providing internet chatrooms
  • providing online forums
  • providing telecommunication channels for teleshopping services
  • providing telecommunications connections to a global computer network
  • providing user access to global computer networks
  • radio broadcasting
  • radio communications
  • rental of access time to global computer networks
  • rental of facsimile apparatus
  • rental of message sending apparatus
  • rental of modems
  • rental of telecommunication equipment
  • rental of telephones
  • satellite transmission
  • streaming of data
  • telecommunications routing and junction services
  • teleconferencing services
  • telegraph services
  • telephone services
  • television broadcasting
  • telex services
  • transmission of digital files
  • transmission of greeting cards online
  • transmission of telegrams
  • videoconferencing services
  • voice mail services
  • wire service
  • wireless broadcasting

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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