Introduction to Trademark Class 11
Trademark Class 11 acts as a guardian of comfort and well-being, playing a crucial role in shaping our living environment. This class is the intersection where technology and nature meet to create devices that regulate temperature, humidity, and air quality which helps in fostering comfortable and harmonious living and working environments.
From cooling our homes during hot weather with air conditioners to maintaining optimal air quality through air purifiers, these products are essential for creating a stable and favorable environment and cover a diverse range of products such as Apparatus and installations for lighting, heating, cooling, steam generating, cooking, drying, ventilating, water supply and sanitary purposes.
It primarily includes environmental control apparatus and installations, in particular, for the purposes of lighting, cooking, cooling, and sanitizing.
Let us discuss the products covered under Trademark Class 11 briefly:
a. Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) Systems: This includes HVAC systems that regulate temperature and air circulation in buildings, Electric heaters, heating elements, electric blankets, Electric fans, and air conditioning apparatus.
Example: Daikin Industries, Ltd. is the global leader in the HVAC&R (heating, ventilating, air conditioning,) industry and a well-known brand in India.
b. Apparatus for Cooking: This includes devices such as Electric cooking utensils, stoves, ovens, and microwave ovens.
Example: TTK Prestige is well known for its innovative and popular kitchen and home products.
c. Apparatus for Lighting: This includes devices such as Electric lighting fixtures, lamps, lanterns, and their parts, and electric fans.
Example: Bajaj Electricals is a popular and reliable electronics company in India offering a wide range of electronic products and services such as fans, lighting products, and other home appliances
d. Apparatus for Steam Generating: Electric steam generators
Example: Thermax is a well-known brand offering a comprehensive range of steam generators and allied products.
e. Apparatus for Refrigerating: This includes Electric refrigerators and freezers.
Example: LG is a famous brand in India for refrigerators
f. Apparatus for Water Supply and Sanitary Purposes: This includes Electric bidets, water heaters, and water purification apparatus.
Example: Kent is a well-known brand in India for its water purifiers, water treatment, and purification.
Inclusions and Exclusions under Trademark Class 11
Trademark Class 11 covers a wide range of products as discussed above. Below is a detailed breakdown of the specific items included and excluded from this classification.
Specific Inclusions in Trademark Class 11:
✔ Air-conditioning apparatus and installations.
✔ Ovens, other than for laboratory use, for example, dental ovens, microwave ovens, and bakers’ ovens.
✔ Stoves being heating apparatus.
✔ Solar thermal collectors.
✔ Chimney flues, chimney blowers, hearths, and domestic fireplaces.
✔ Sterilizers, and incinerators.
✔ Lighting apparatus and installations, for example, luminous tubes for lighting, searchlights, luminous house numbers, vehicle reflectors, and lights for vehicles.
✔ Lamps, for example, electric lamps, gas lamps, laboratory lamps, oil lamps, street lamps, and safety lamps.
✔ Tanning beds.
✔ Bath installations, bath fittings, and bath plumbing fixtures.
✔ Toilets, urinals.
✔ Fountains, chocolate fountains.
✔ Electrically heated pads, cushions, and blankets, not for medical purposes.
✔ Hot water bottles.
✔ Electrically heated clothing.
✔ Electric appliances for making yogurt, bread-making machines, coffee machines, ice-cream making machines.
✔ Ice machines and apparatus.
Specific Exclusions in Trademark Class 11:
✘ Steam-producing apparatus being parts of machines (Class 7).
✘ Air condensers (Class 7).
✘ Current generators, generators of electricity (Class 7).
✘ Soldering lamps (Class 7), optical lamps, darkroom lamps (Class 9), and lamps for medical purposes (Class 10).
✘ Ovens for laboratory use (Class 9).
✘ Photovoltaic cells (Class 9).
✘ Signalling lights (Class 9).
✘ Electrically heated pads, cushions, and blankets, for medical purposes (Class 10).
✘ Portable baby baths (Class 21).
✘ Non-electric portable coolers (Class 21).
✘ Cooking utensils that do not have an integrated heat source, for example, non-electric griddles and grills, non-electric waffle irons, and non-electric pressure cookers (Class 21).
✘ Footmuffs, not electrically heated (Class 25).
Steps involved in registering a Trademark under Class 11
Initial Trademark Search for Trademark Class 11
Before starting with the registration process under Trademark Class 11, a detailed Trademark Search is required to be conducted to ensure that the proposed trademark is unique and does not conflict with existing trademarks under Trademark Class 11. Search can be carried out online through the official website of the Trademarks Registry (https://tmrsearch.ipindia.gov.in/tmrpublicsearch).
Prepare and Draft the Trademark Application for Trademark Class 11
For preparing and drafting the trademark application form (TM-A), the following information and documents are required to be collated:
- A clear representation of the trademark
- Details of the applicant, including name, address, and nationality
- Description of goods or services associated with the trademark
- Date of first use (if applicable)
- Power of Attorney (if filed through an attorney)
- Digital Signature of the Applicant
The application can be filed online through the official website or a physical application can be submitted at the nearest Trademarks Registry office.
Submit the Application for Trademark Class 11
The trademark application can be submitted online or offline by paying the requisite fees. The fee varies depending on whether you’re an individual, a startup, a small enterprise, or a large corporation.
Examination by the Trademarks Registry
The Trademarks Registry will review the application to ensure it complies with the relevant laws and regulations. They will assess the distinctiveness of the mark, potential conflicts, and other requirements.
Publication in the Trademarks Journal
If the Registrar finds no objections or issues with your application, your trademark will be published in the Trademarks Journal. This publication allows interested parties to oppose the registration within a specific period (usually four months).
Objection and Opposition Period
During the publication period, objections or oppositions can be filed by third parties against the proposed trademark. If an objection is filed, the opportunity to respond shall be granted.
Registration Certificate of Trademark Class 11
If there are no valid objections or if you successfully resolve any objections, the Registrar will issue a Certificate of Registration for trademark under Class 11. This certificate confirms your exclusive rights to the mark within Trademark Class 11.
Detailed List of goods classified under Trademark Class 11
A - acetylene burners
- acetylene flares
- acetylene generators
- adsorption apparatus for generating gas
- air conditioners for vehicles
- air cooling apparatus
- air deodorizing apparatus / air deodorising apparatus
- air dryers / air driers
- air filtering installations
- air fryers
- air purifying apparatus and machines
- air reheaters
- air sterilizers / air sterilisers
- air valves for steam heating installations
- air-conditioning apparatus
- air-conditioning installations
- alcohol burners
- anti-glare devices for vehicles [lamp fittings] / anti-dazzle devices for vehicles [lamp fittings]
- anti-splash tap nozzles
- apparatus for dehydrating food waste
- apparatus for fertilizer irrigation
- apparatus for making ice and ice cream, electric
- aquarium filtration apparatus
- aquarium heaters
- aquarium lights
- arc lamps
- ash conveyor installations, automatic
- autoclaves, electric, cooking / pressure cookers, electric
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B - Bakers’ ovens
- Barbecues
- Bath fittings
- Bath installations
- Bath plumbing fixtures
- Bath tubs
- Bath tubs for sitz baths
- Bed warmers
- Beverage cooling apparatus
- Bicycle lights
- Bidets
- Blankets, electric, not for medical purposes
- Boiler pipes [tubes] for heating installations
- Boilers, other than parts of machines
- Book sterilisation apparatus
- Book sterilization apparatus
- Brackets for gas burners
- Bread baking machines
- Bread-making machines
- Bread toasters
- Burners
- Burners for lamps
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C - Candle lanterns
- Carbon for arc lamps
- Ceiling lights
- Central heating radiators
- Chandeliers
- Chimney blowers
- Chimney flues
- Chinese lanterns
- Chocolate fountains, electric
- Chromatography apparatus for industrial purposes
- Clean chambers [sanitary installations]
- Cocks for pipes and pipelines
- Coffee machines, electric
- Coffee percolators, electric
- Coffee roasters
- Coffeepots, electric
- Coils [parts of distilling, heating, or cooling installations]
- Cookers
- Cooking apparatus and installations
- Cooking rings
- Cooking stoves
- Cooking utensils, electric
- Cool boxes, electric
- Coolers, electric
- Coolers for furnaces
- Cooling appliances and installations
- Cooling installations and machines
- Cooling installations for water
- Cooling installations for liquids
- Cooling installations for tobacco
- Cooling vats for furnaces
- Curling lamps
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D - Dampers [heating]
- Deep fryers, electric
- Defrosters for vehicles
- Dental ovens
- Deodorising apparatus, not for personal use
- Deodorizing apparatus, not for personal use
- Desalination plants
- Desiccating apparatus
- Directional lights for bicycles
- Discharge tubes, electric, for lighting
- Disinfectant apparatus
- Disinfectant apparatus for medical purposes
- Disinfectant dispensers for toilets
- Disinfectant distributors for toilets
- Distillation apparatus
- Distillation columns
- Diving lights
- Drip irrigation emitters [irrigation fittings]
- Drying apparatus
- Drying apparatus and installations
- Drying apparatus for fodder and forage
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E - electric appliances for making yogurt / electric appliances for making yoghurt
- electric cooktops
- electric fans for personal use
- electric lamps
- electric torches / electric flashlights
- electrically heated carpets
- electrically heated clothing
- electrically heated mugs
- evaporators
- expansion tanks for central heating installations
- extractor hoods for kitchens
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F - Fabric steamers
- Fairy lights for festive decoration
- Fans [air-conditioning]
- Fans [parts of air-conditioning installations]
- Faucets
- Faucets for pipes and pipelines
- Feeding apparatus for heating boilers
- Filaments for electric lamps
- Filters for air conditioning
- Filters for drinking water
- Fire bars
- Fireplaces, domestic
- Fittings, shaped, for furnaces
- Fittings, shaped, for ovens
- Flaming torches
- Flare stacks for use in the oil industry
- Flues for heating boilers
- Flushing apparatus
- Flushing tanks
- Food steamers, electric
- Footmuffs, electrically heated
- Footwarmers, electric or non-electric
- Forage drying apparatus
- Forges, portable
- Fountains
- Framework of metal for ovens
- Freezers
- Friction lighters for igniting gas
- Fruit roasters
- Frying pans, electric
- Full-body drying apparatus
- Fumigation apparatus, not for medical purposes
- Furnace ash boxes
- Furnace grates
- Furnaces, other than for laboratory use
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G - Gas boilers
- Gas burners
- Gas condensers, other than parts of machines
- Gas lamps
- Gas lighters
- Gas scrubbers [parts of gas installations]
- Gas scrubbing apparatus
- Germicidal burners
- Germicidal lamps for purifying air
- Glow sticks for lighting
- Glue pots, electric
- Glue-heating appliances
- Globes for lamps
- Glue-heating appliances
- Griddles [cooking appliances]
- Grills [cooking appliances]
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H - hair dryers / hair driers
- hand drying apparatus for washrooms
- head torches / portable headlamps
- headlights for automobiles
- hearths
- heat accumulators
- heat exchangers, other than parts of machines
- heat guns
- heat pumps
- heat regenerators
- heat-stabilized polypropylene pipes for heating installations
- heated carving stations
- heated display cabinets
- heaters for baths
- heaters for heating irons
- heaters for vehicles
- heaters, electric, for feeding bottles
- heating and cooling apparatus for dispensing hot and cold beverages
- heating apparatus
- heating apparatus for defrosting vehicle windows
- heating apparatus for solid, liquid, or gaseous fuels
- heating apparatus, electric
- heating boilers
- heating cushions, electric, not for medical purposes / heating pads, electric, not for medical purposes
- heating elements
- heating filaments, electric
- heating installations
- heating installations [water] / hot water heating installations
- heating plates
- hot air apparatus
- hot air bath fittings
- hot air ovens
- hot plates
- hot pots, electric
- hot water bottles
- humidifiers
- humidifiers for central heating radiators
- hydrants
- hydromassage bath apparatus
- hydroponic growing systems
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I - ice machines and apparatus
- ice-cream making machines
- immersion heaters
- incandescent burners
- incinerators
- installations for processing nuclear fuel and nuclear moderating material
- ionization apparatus for the treatment of air or water
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K - kettles, electric
- kiln furniture [supports]
- kilns
- kitchen ranges [ovens]
- kitchen sinks incorporating integrated worktops
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L - laboratory burners
- laboratory lamps
- lamp chimneys
- lamp glasses
- lamp globes / globes for lamps
- lamp mantles / lamp casings
- lamp reflectors
- lamps
- lampshade holders
- lampshades
- lanterns for lighting
- laundry dryers, electric / laundry driers, electric
- laundry room boilers / washing coppers
- lava rocks for use in barbecue grills
- level controlling valves in tanks
- light bulbs
- light bulbs for directional signals for vehicles
- light bulbs, electric
- light diffusers
- light projectors
- light-emitting diode [LED] light bulbs
- light-emitting diodes [LED] lighting apparatus
- lighting apparatus and installations
- lighting apparatus for vehicles
- lighting installations for air vehicles
- lights for automobiles / automobile lights
- lights for vehicles
- lights, electric, for Christmas trees / electric lights for Christmas trees
- lightsticks, battery-operated
- luminous house numbers
- luminous tubes for lighting
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M - magnesium filaments for lighting
- malt roasters
- membrane apparatus for generating gas
- membrane filtration units for water treatment apparatus
- membranes for reverse osmosis units
- membranes for water filtering apparatus
- microbubble generators for baths
- microwave ovens [cooking apparatus]
- microwave ovens for industrial purposes
- milk cooling installations
- miners’ lamps
- mixer taps for water pipes / mixer faucets for water pipes
- motorcycle lights
- multicookers
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N - nail lamps
- nuclear reactors
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O - oil burners
- oil lamps
- oil-scrubbing apparatus
- ornamental fountains
- oven fittings made of fireclay
- oxyhydrogen burners
- ozonizers for sanitizing purposes / ozone generators for sanitizing purposes
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P - pasteurisers
- personal cooling packs, not for medical purposes
- pipes [parts of sanitary installations] / water-pipes for sanitary installations
- plate warmers
- pocket warmers
- polymerisation installations
- pounded rice cake making machines, electric, for household purposes
- pressure water tanks
- purification installations for sewage
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R - radiator caps
- radiators [heating]
- radiators, electric
- refining towers for distillation
- refrigerating apparatus and machines
- refrigerating appliances and installations
- refrigerating cabinets
- refrigerating chambers/walk-in refrigerators
- refrigerating containers
- refrigerating display cabinets
- refrigerators
- refrigerators, cooling apparatus, and freezers for medical storage purposes
- regulating accessories for water or gas apparatus and pipes
- regulating and safety accessories for gas apparatus
- regulating and safety accessories for gas pipes
- regulating and safety accessories for water apparatus
- reverse osmosis membrane filters for water treatment
- reverse osmosis units
- roasters
- roasting apparatus/griddles [cooking appliances] / grills [cooking appliances]
- roasting jacks
- roasting spits
- rotisseries
- running lights for vehicles
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S - safety accessories for water or gas apparatus and pipes
- safety lamps
- sanitary apparatus and installations
- sauna bath installations
- searchlights
- shower cubicles / shower enclosures
- showers
- sinks
- smart light bulbs
- smoke machines
- smokers [cooking apparatus]
- snow-making machines / snow cannons
- sockets for electric lights
- socks, electrically heated
- solar furnaces
- solar thermal collectors [heating]
- sous-vide cookers, electric
- soya milk making machines, electric
- spa baths [vessels]
- standard lamps / floor lamps
- steam accumulators
- steam boilers, other than parts of machines
- steam facial apparatus [saunas]
- steam generating installations
- sterilizers / sterilisers
- sterilizers for medical instruments / sterilisers for medical instruments
- stills*
- stoves [heating apparatus]
- street lamps
- structural framework for ovens
- swimming pool chlorinating apparatus
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T - tajines, electric / tagines, electric
- tanning beds
- taps for pipes and pipelines / cocks for pipes and pipelines / faucets for pipes and pipelines / spigots for pipes and pipelines
- taps* / faucets*
- thermo-pots, electric
- thermostatic valves [parts of heating installations]
- tobacco roasters
- toilet bowls
- toilet seats
- toilets [water-closets] / water closets
- toilets, portable
- tortilla presses, electric
- Turkish bath cabinets, portable
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U - ultraviolet ray lamps, not for medical purposes
- underfloor heating apparatus and installations
- urinals being sanitary fixtures
- USB-powered cup heaters
- USB-powered hand warmers
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V - vehicle headlights
- vehicle reflectors
- ventilation [air-conditioning] installations and apparatus
- ventilation [air-conditioning] installations for vehicles
- ventilation hoods
- ventilation hoods for laboratories
- venturi scrubbers
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W - waffle irons, electric
- warming pans
- wash-hand basins [parts of sanitary installations] / wash-hand bowls [parts of sanitary installations]
- washers for water taps/washers for water faucets
- water conduits installations
- water distribution installations
- water filtering apparatus
- water flushing installations / flushing apparatus
- water heaters
- water intake apparatus
- water purification installations
- water purifying apparatus and machines
- water softening apparatus and installations
- water sterilizers / water sterilisers
- water supply installations
- watering installations, automatic
- watering machines for agricultural purposes
- whirlpool-jet apparatus
- wicks adapted for oil stoves
- wine cellars, electric
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Conclusion on Trademark Class 11
In short, Trademark Class 11 encompasses a wide range of related to lighting, heating, steam generating, cooking, refrigerating, drying, ventilating, water supply, and sanitary purposes. As technology continues to progress, the requirement for accurate classification and trademark protection in Class 11 becomes more crucial for establishing brand recognition trust and ensuring comfort, convenience, and health in various ways. Therefore, for businesses operating in the environmental control apparatus industry, securing a trademark under Class 11 becomes extremely important. ” Trademark Class List 1 to 45 ” can be referred to learn about other classes.
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