Trademark Class 8: Hand Tools and Implements

A comprehensive guide to Class 8 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 8 of trademark classification.

Trademark Class 8

Trademark Class 8 pertains to hand tools and implements (hand-operated); cutlery; side arms; razors.

The following goods are also classified under Class 8:

  • Cutlery of precious metals
  • Electric razors and clippers (hand instruments).

Therefore, Trademark Class 8 includes mainly hand-operated implements used as tools in the respective professions.

What Class 8 does not cover

The following goods must NOT be classified under Class 8:

  • Certain special instruments
  • Machine tools and implements driven by a motor
  • Surgical cutlery
  • Side arms being firearms
  • Paper knives
  • Fencing weapons.
Nice Classification

List of goods classified under Trademark Class 8

276 goods listed under Class 8.

  • abrading instruments [hand instruments]
  • adzes [tools]
  • agricultural implements, hand-operated
  • air pumps, hand-operated
  • annular screw plates
  • apparatus for destroying plant parasites, hand-operated
  • apparatus for tattooing
  • augers [hand tools]
  • awls
  • axes
  • bayonets
  • beard clippers
  • bench vices [hand implements]
  • bill-hooks
  • bits [hand tools]
  • bits [parts of hand tools]
  • blade sharpening instruments
  • blades [hand tools]
  • blades [weapons]
  • blades for planes
  • bludgeons
  • border shears
  • borers
  • bow saws
  • braiders [hand tools]
  • branding irons
  • breast drills
  • budding knives
  • bushhammers
  • can openers, non-electric
  • carpenters' augers
  • cattle marking tools
  • cattle shearers
  • caulking irons
  • centre punches [hand tools]
  • ceramic knives
  • cheese slicers, non-electric
  • chisels
  • choppers [knives]
  • clamps for carpenters or coopers
  • cleavers
  • crimping irons
  • crow bars
  • curling tongs
  • cuticle nippers
  • cuticle tweezers
  • cutlery*
  • cutter bars [hand tools]
  • cutters*
  • cutting tools [hand tools]
  • daggers
  • depilation appliances, electric and non-electric
  • dies [hand tools]
  • diggers [hand tools]
  • ditchers [hand tools]
  • draw wires [hand tools]
  • drawing knives
  • drill holders [hand tools]
  • drills
  • ear-piercing apparatus
  • earth rammers [hand tools]
  • edge tools [hand tools]
  • egg slicers, non-electric
  • embossers [hand tools]
  • emery files
  • emery grinding wheels
  • engraving needles
  • expanders [hand tools]
  • extension pieces for braces for screw taps
  • eyelash curlers
  • farriers' knives
  • files [tools]
  • fingernail polishers, electric or non-electric
  • fire irons
  • fireplace bellows [hand tools]
  • fish tapes [hand tools]
  • flat irons
  • fleshing knives [hand tools]
  • forks
  • foundry ladles [hand tools]
  • frames for handsaws
  • fruit pickers [hand tools]
  • fullers [hand tools]
  • fulling tools [hand tools]
  • garden tools, hand-operated
  • gimlets [hand tools]
  • glaziers' diamonds [parts of hand tools]
  • glazing irons
  • goffering irons
  • gouges [hand tools]
  • grafting tools [hand tools]
  • graving tools [hand tools]
  • grindstones [hand tools]
  • guns [hand tools]
  • guns, hand-operated, for the extrusion of mastics
  • hackles [hand tools]
  • hainault scythes
  • hair clippers for animals [hand instruments]
  • hair clippers for personal use, electric and non-electric
  • hair-removing tweezers
  • hammers [hand tools]
  • hand drills [hand tools]
  • hand implements for hair curling
  • hand pumps*
  • hand tools, hand-operated
  • harpoons
  • harpoons for fishing
  • hatchets
  • hobby knives [scalpels]
  • hoes [hand tools]
  • holing axes
  • hollowing bits [parts of hand tools]
  • hoop cutters [hand tools]
  • hunting knives
  • ice picks
  • implements for decanting liquids [hand tools]
  • insecticide atomizers [hand tools]
  • insecticide sprayers [hand tools]
  • insecticide vaporizers [hand tools]
  • instruments and tools for skinning animals
  • instruments for punching tickets
  • irons [non-electric hand tools]
  • jig-saws
  • knife steels
  • knives*
  • knuckle dusters
  • ladles [hand tools]
  • ladles for wine
  • lasts [shoemakers' hand tools]
  • lawn clippers [hand instruments]
  • leather strops
  • levers
  • lifting jacks, hand-operated
  • livestock marking tools
  • machetes
  • mallets [hand instruments]
  • manicure sets
  • manicure sets, electric
  • marline spikes
  • masons' hammers
  • mattocks
  • meat choppers [hand tools]
  • metal band stretchers [hand tools]
  • metal wire stretchers [hand tools]
  • milling cutters [hand tools]
  • mincing knives [hand tools]
  • mitre [miter (Am.)] boxes [hand tools]
  • molding irons
  • money scoops
  • mortars for pounding
  • mortise axes
  • mortise chisels
  • moulding irons
  • nail buffers, electric or non-electric
  • nail clippers, electric or non-electric
  • nail drawers [hand tools]
  • nail extractors
  • nail files
  • nail files, electric
  • nail nippers
  • nail punches
  • needle files
  • needle-threaders
  • nippers
  • non-electric caulking guns
  • numbering punches
  • nutcrackers
  • oyster openers
  • palette knives
  • paring irons [hand tools]
  • paring knives
  • pedicure sets
  • penknives
  • perforating tools [hand tools]
  • pestles for pounding
  • pickaxes
  • pickhammers
  • picks [hand tools]
  • pin punches
  • pincers
  • pizza cutters, non-electric
  • plane irons
  • planes
  • pliers
  • police batons
  • polishing irons [glazing tools]
  • priming irons [hand tools]
  • pruning knives
  • pruning scissors
  • pruning shears
  • punch pliers [hand tools]
  • punch rings [knuckle dusters]
  • punches [hand tools]
  • rabbeting planes
  • rakes [hand tools]
  • rammers [hand tools]
  • rams [hand tools]
  • rasps [hand tools]
  • ratchets [hand tools]
  • razor blades
  • razor cases
  • razor strops
  • razors, electric or non-electric
  • reamer sockets
  • reamers
  • riveters [hand tools]
  • riveting hammers [hand tools]
  • sabres
  • sand trap rakes
  • saw blades [parts of hand tools]
  • saw holders
  • saws [hand tools]
  • scaling knives
  • scissors*
  • scrapers [hand tools]
  • scraping tools [hand tools]
  • screw stocks [hand tools]
  • screw-thread cutters [hand tools]
  • screwdrivers
  • scythe rings
  • scythe stones
  • scythes
  • secateurs
  • sharpening instruments
  • sharpening steels
  • sharpening stones
  • sharpening wheels [hand tools]
  • shaving cases
  • shear blades
  • shearers [hand instruments]
  • shears
  • shovels [hand tools]
  • sickles
  • side arms, other than firearms
  • silver plate [knives, forks and spoons]
  • sledgehammers
  • spades [hand tools]
  • spanners [hand tools]
  • spatulas [hand tools]
  • spoons*
  • squares [hand tools]
  • stamping-out tools [hand tools]
  • stamps [hand tools]
  • stone hammers
  • stropping instruments
  • sugar tongs
  • sword scabbards
  • swords
  • syringes for spraying insecticides
  • table cutlery [knives, forks and spoons]
  • table forks
  • tableware [knives, forks and spoons]
  • tap wrenches
  • taps [hand tools]
  • thistle extirpators [hand tools]
  • tin openers, non-electric
  • tongs
  • tool belts [holders]
  • tree pruners
  • trowels
  • trowels [gardening]
  • truncheons
  • tube cutters [hand tools]
  • tube cutting instruments
  • tweezers
  • vegetable choppers
  • vegetable knives
  • vegetable shredders
  • vegetable slicers
  • vices
  • weeding forks [hand tools]
  • whetstone holders
  • whetstones
  • wick trimmers [scissors]
  • wire strippers [hand tools]
  • wrenches [hand tools]

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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