Trademark Class 20: Furniture, mirrors, picture frames

Class 20 includes mainly furniture and parts therefor, as well as certain goods made of wood, cork, reed, cane, wicker, horn, bone, whalebone, shell, amber, mother-of-pearl, meerschaum and substitutes for all these materials, or of plastic.

This class includes, in particular

• metal furniture, furniture for camping, gun racks, newspaper display stands
• indoor window blinds and shades
• bedding, for example, mattresses, bed bases, pillows
• looking glasses, furniture and toilet mirrors
• registration plates, not of metal
• small items of hardware, not of metal, for example, bolts, screws, dowels, furniture casters, collars for fastening pipes
• letter boxes, not of metal or masonry
• certain dispensing apparatus, not of metal, automatic or non-automatic, for example, towel dispensers, queue ticket dispensers, dispensers for dog waste bags, toilet paper dispensers

These look close to Class 20 but are classified elsewhere. Filing them here draws an objection, so pick the class named in brackets.

• outdoor blinds of metal (Class 6), not of metal and not of textile (Class 19), of textile (Class 22)
• certain dispensing apparatus that are classified according to their function or purpose, for example, fluid dispensing machines for industrial use (Class 7), electronic ticket dispensing terminals (Class 9), dosage dispensers for medical use (Class 10), adhesive tape dispensers (Class 16)
• certain mirrors for specific uses, for example, mirrors used in optical goods (Class 9), mirrors used in surgery or dentistry (Class 10), rearview mirrors (Class 12), sighting mirrors for guns (Class 13)
• special furniture for laboratories (Class 9) or for medical use (Class 10)
• certain goods made of wood, cork, reed, cane, wicker, horn, bone, whalebone, shell, amber, mother-of-pearl, meerschaum and substitutes for all these materials, or of plastic, that are classified according to their function or purpose, for example, beads for making jewellery (Class 14), wooden floor boards (Class 19), baskets for domestic use (Class 21), plastic cups (Class 21), reed mats (Class 27)
• bed linen, eiderdowns and sleeping bags (Class 24)

Use these wordings in the specification of your application. Each carries its basic number in the Nice list. A description outside the list is allowed, but it must be specific enough for the Registry to classify.

The Trade Marks Registry classifies goods and services by the current edition of the Nice Classification (rule 20, Trade Marks Rules, 2017). One application in Form TM-A can cover Class 20 alone or several classes together; the fee is charged for each class.

• Search the mark in Class 20 and in the related classes before filing.
• Describe the goods in the words of the list wherever they fit.
• File in every class you trade in; protection does not extend to a class you left out.