A comprehensive guide to Class 42 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 42 of trademark classification.
Trademark Class 42 pertains to scientific and technological services and research and design relating thereto; industrial analysis and research services; design and development of computer hardware and software.
The following services are also classified under Class 42:
Therefore, Trademark Class 42 includes services provided by persons, individually or collectively, in relation to the theoretical and practical aspects of complex fields of activities; such services are provided by members of professions such as chemists, physicists, engineers, computer programmers, etc.
The following services are NOT classified under Class 42:
88 goods listed under Class 42.
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.
