Trademark Class 39: Transport and Travel Arrangement

A comprehensive guide to Class 39 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 36 of trademark classification.

Trademark Class 39

Trademark Class 39 pertains to transport; packaging and storage of goods; travel arrangement.

The following services are also classified under Class 39:

  • Services rendered by companies exploiting stations, bridges, rail-road ferries, etc., used by the transporter
  • Services connected with the hiring of transport vehicles
  • Services connected with maritime tugs, unloading, the functioning of ports and docks and the salvaging of wrecked ships and their cargoes
  • Services connected with the packaging and parcelling of goods before dispatch
  • Services consisting of information about journeys or the transport of goods by brokers and tourist agencies, information relating to tariffs, timetables and methods of transport
  • Services relating to the inspection of vehicles or goods before transport.

Therefore, Trademark Class 39 includes services for the transport of people, animals or goods from one place to another (by rail, road, water, air or pipeline) and services necessarily connected with such transport, as well as services relating to the storing of goods in a warehouse or other building for their preservation or guarding.

The following services are NOT classified under Class 39:

  • Services relating to advertising transport undertakings such as the distribution of prospectuses or advertising on the radio
  • Services relating to the issuing of travellers’ cheques or letters of credit by brokers or travel agents
  • Services relating to insurances (commercial, fire or life) during the transport of persons or goods
  • Services rendered by the maintenance and repair of vehicles, nor the maintenance or repair of objects connected with the transport of persons or goods
  • Services relating to reservation of rooms in a hotel by travel agents or brokers.
Nice Classification

List of services classified under Trademark Class 39

106 services listed under Class 39.

  • air transport
  • aircraft rental
  • ambulance transport
  • armored-car transport
  • arranging of cruises
  • arranging of travel tours
  • barge transport
  • boat rental
  • boat storage
  • boat transport
  • booking of seats for travel
  • bottling services
  • bus transport
  • car parking
  • car rental
  • car transport
  • carting
  • chauffeur services
  • courier services [messages or merchandise]
  • delivery of goods
  • delivery of goods by mail order
  • delivery of newspapers
  • distribution of energy
  • electricity distribution
  • escorting of travellers
  • ferry-boat transport
  • flower delivery
  • franking of mail
  • freight [shipping of goods]
  • freight brokerage
  • freight brokerage [forwarding (Am.)]
  • freight forwarding
  • freighting
  • frozen-food locker rental
  • garage rental
  • gift wrapping
  • guarded transport of valuables
  • hauling
  • horse rental
  • ice-breaking
  • launching of satellites for others
  • lighterage services
  • marine transport
  • message delivery
  • motor coach rental
  • newspaper delivery
  • operating canal locks
  • packaging of goods
  • parcel delivery
  • parking place rental
  • passenger transport
  • physical storage of electronically-stored data or documents
  • piloting
  • pleasure boat transport
  • porterage
  • providing driving directions for travel purposes
  • railway coach rental
  • railway transport
  • railway truck rental
  • refloating of ships
  • refrigerator rental
  • removal services
  • rental of aircraft engines
  • rental of diving bells
  • rental of diving suits
  • rental of freezers
  • rental of motor racing cars
  • rental of navigational systems
  • rental of storage containers
  • rental of vehicle roof racks
  • rental of warehouses
  • rental of wheelchairs
  • rescue operations [transport]
  • river transport
  • salvage of ships
  • salvaging
  • shipbrokerage
  • sightseeing [tourism]
  • stevedoring
  • storage
  • storage information
  • storage of goods
  • streetcar transport
  • taxi transport
  • towing
  • traffic information
  • tram transport
  • transport
  • transport and storage of trash
  • transport and storage of waste
  • transport brokerage
  • transport by pipeline
  • transport of travellers
  • transport reservation
  • transportation information
  • transportation logistics
  • transporting furniture
  • travel reservation
  • underwater salvage
  • unloading cargo
  • vehicle breakdown assistance [towing]
  • vehicle rental
  • warehousing
  • water distribution
  • water supplying
  • wrapping of goods

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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