Trademark Class 21: Household or kitchen utensils and containers

Class 21 includes mainly small, hand-operated utensils and apparatus for household and kitchen use, as well as cosmetic utensils, glassware and certain goods made of porcelain, ceramic, earthenware, terra-cotta, clay or glass.

This class includes, in particular

• household and kitchen utensils, for example, fly swatters, clothes-pegs, mixing spoons, basting spoons and corkscrews, as well as serving utensils, for example, sugar tongs, ice tongs, pie servers and serving ladles
• household, kitchen and cooking containers, for example, vases, bottles, piggy banks, pails, cocktail shakers, and non-electric kettles, pressure cookers, cooking pots and pans
• small hand-operated kitchen apparatus for mincing, grinding, pressing or crushing, for example, garlic presses, nutcrackers, pestles and mortars
• coasters and place mats, not of paper or textile
• trivets
• cosmetic utensils, for example, electric and non-electric combs and toothbrushes, dental floss, foam toe separators for use in pedicures, powder puffs, fitted vanity cases
• gardening articles, for example, gardening gloves, window-boxes, watering cans
• indoor aquaria, terrariums and vivariums

These look close to Class 21 but are classified elsewhere. Filing them here draws an objection, so pick the class named in brackets.

• cleaning preparations (Class 3)
• certain goods made of glass, porcelain and earthenware that are classified according to their function or purpose, for example, porcelain for dental prostheses (Class 5), spectacle lenses (Class 10), glass wool for insulation, semi-processed acrylic or organic glass (Class 17), earthenware tiles (Class 19), building glass (Class 19), glass fibres for textile use (Class 22)
• containers for storage and transport of goods, of metal (Class 6), not of metal (Class 20)
• small apparatus for mincing, grinding, pressing or crushing, which are driven by electricity (Class 7)
• razors and shaving apparatus, hair and nail clippers, electric and non-electric implements for manicure and pedicure, for example, manicure sets, emery boards, cuticle nippers (Class 8)
• table cutlery (Class 8) and hand-operated cutting tools for kitchen use, for example, vegetable shredders, pizza cutters, cheese slicers (Class 8)
• lice combs (Class 10)
• electric cooking utensils (Class 11)
• toilet mirrors (Class 20)

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 21 alone or several classes together; the fee is charged for each class.

• Search the mark in Class 21 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.