Trademark Class 26: Lace and embroidery, and haberdashery ribbons and bows

Class 26 includes mainly dressmakers' articles, natural or synthetic hair for wear, and hair adornments, as well as small decorative items intended to adorn a variety of objects, not included in other classes.

This class includes, in particular

• wigs, toupees, false beards
• barrettes, hair bands
• ribbons and bows being haberdashery or used as hair decorations, made of any material
• ribbons and bows for gift wrapping, not of paper
• hair nets
• buckles, zippers
• charms, other than for jewellery, key rings or key chains
• artificial garlands and wreaths, including those incorporating lights
• certain articles for curling hair, for example, electric and non-electric hair curlers, other than hand implements, hair curling pins, hair curling paper

These look close to Class 26 but are classified elsewhere. Filing them here draws an objection, so pick the class named in brackets.

• false eyelashes (Class 3)
• hooks being small items of metal hardware (Class 6) or hardware, not of metal (Class 20), curtain hooks (Class 20)
• certain special types of needles, for example, tattoo needles (Class 8), needles for surveying compasses (Class 9), needles for medical purposes (Class 10), needles for pumps for inflating balls for games (Class 28)
• hand implements for curling hair, for example, curling tongs, eyelash curlers (Class 8)
• hair prostheses (Class 10)
• jewellery charms, charms for key rings or key chains (Class 14)
• certain ribbons and bows, for example, paper ribbons and bows, other than haberdashery or hair decorations (Class 16), rhythmic gymnastics ribbons (Class 28)
• yarns and threads for textile use (Class 23)
• Christmas trees of synthetic material (Class 28)

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

• Search the mark in Class 26 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.