Trademark Class 43: Hotels and Restaurants

A comprehensive guide to Class 43 of the Trademark 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 43 of trademark classification.

Trademark Class 43

Services for providing food, drink and temporary accommodation mainly fall under Trademark Class 43 for trademark registration.

Trademark Class 43 includes mainly

  • Services provided by persons or establishments whose aim is to prepare food and drink for consumption and services provided to obtain bed and board in hotels, boarding houses or other establishments providing temporary accommodation.
  • Reservation services for travellers’ accommodation, particularly through travel agencies or brokers.
  • Boarding for animals.

What Class 43 does not cover

The following services must NOT be classified under Trademark Class 43:

  • Rental services for real estate such as houses, flats, etc., for permanent use
  • Arranging travel by tourist agencies
  • Preservation services for food and drink
  • Discotheque services
  • Boarding schools
  • Rest and convalescent homes
Nice Classification

List of services classified under Trademark Class 43

30 services listed under Class 43.

  • accommodation bureaux [hotels, boarding houses]
  • bar services
  • boarding for animals
  • boarding house bookings
  • boarding houses
  • cafeterias
  • cafés
  • canteens
  • day-nurseries [crèches]
  • food and drink catering
  • food sculpting
  • holiday camp services [lodging]
  • hotel reservations
  • hotels
  • motels
  • providing campground facilities
  • rental of chairs, tables, table linen, glassware
  • rental of cooking apparatus
  • rental of drinking water dispensers
  • rental of lighting apparatus*
  • rental of meeting rooms
  • rental of temporary accommodation
  • rental of tents
  • rental of transportable buildings*
  • restaurants
  • retirement homes
  • self-service restaurants
  • snack-bars
  • temporary accommodation reservations
  • tourist homes

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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