Trademark Class 5: Pharmaceuticals, medical and veterinary preparations

Class 5 includes mainly pharmaceuticals and other preparations for medical or veterinary purposes.

This class includes, in particular

• sanitary preparations for personal hygiene, other than toiletries
• diapers for babies and for incontinence
• deodorants, other than for human beings or for animals
• medicated shampoos, soaps, lotions and dentifrices
• dietary supplements intended to supplement a normal diet or to have health benefits
• meal replacements and dietetic foods and beverages adapted for medical or veterinary purposes

These look close to Class 5 but are classified elsewhere. Filing them here draws an objection, so pick the class named in brackets.

• ingredients for use in the manufacture of pharmaceuticals, for example, vitamins, preservatives and antioxidants (Class 1)
• sanitary preparations being non-medicated toiletries (Class 3)
• deodorants for human beings or for animals (Class 3)
• support bandages, orthopaedic bandages (Class 10)
• meal replacements and dietetic foods and beverages not specified as being for medical or veterinary purposes, which should be classified in the appropriate food or beverage classes, for example, low-fat potato crisps (Class 29), high-protein cereal bars (Class 30), isotonic beverages (Class 32)

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

• Search the mark in Class 5 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.