Trademark Class for Food, Restaurants and Spices

Wondering whether to register your food business in class 30 or 43 ?

So it depends on what you offer. 

 

Trademark Class 43 caters to :

• Food Services.
• Restaurants.

 

Trademark Class 30 caters to :

• Food Products.
• Spices.

 

Trademark Class for food services : Class 43

 

Trademark Class 43 includes services with the primary goal to prepare food and drink for consumption. It also provides services to obtain bed and board in hotels, animals boarding, boarding houses and several other establishments that will provide temporary accommodation along with reservation services for travellers.

 

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Find the comprehensive list of all goods included in Class 43 based on Taxonomy,

 

• Temporary accommodation, holiday camp services (lodging).
• Nurseries and day-nurseries, day-care facilities and retirement homes (elderly care).
• Accommodation bureaux [hotels, boarding houses], hotels, motels, hostels, boarding houses and tourist accommodation, boarding house bookings, boarding houses and hotel reservations, boarding for animals.
• Bar services, cafés, cafeterias, canteens, food sculpting, food and drink catering, restaurants, snack-bars, self-service restaurants.
• Rentals for temporary accommodation including tents, transportable buildings, reservations, tourist homes, meeting rooms.
• Rentals of cooking apparatus, lighting apparatus, drinking water dispensers. Also, rentals of chairs, tables, table linen, glassware.
• Provision of campground and event facilities.

 

There are certain services that Trademark Class 43 will not classify, such as:

 

• Real estate rentals for houses and flats are not classified for permanent use.
• Boarding schools, rest and convalescent homes.
• Preservation for food and beverages.
• Travel arrangements through tourist agencies are not permitted.
• Discotheque services.

 

Trademark Class for food Products : Class 30

 

If you have a brand for food products, then you wont fall under class 43 of trademark, Rather you'll fall under class 30 of trademark. Class 30 covers all the food products ranging from Coffee to tea to packed food,  Here are a few examples.

 

So if your company plans to have its own food services and food products. You should register for class 43 as well as 30. For eg Starbucks also serves coffee and also has its coffee products.

 

Restaurant Trademark Class : Class 43

 

The trademark class for Restaurant is class 43. The trademark class 43 caters to a whole lot of food serving businesses.

 

This includes :

 

• The restaurants serving food and drinks.
• Dhaba.
• Bars.
• Cafe’s and Canteens.
• Holiday Camps etc.

 

This list is non exhaustive and includes several other categories as well.

 

However if you have a microbrewery or disco in your restaurant or club. You will also have to register in trademark class 32 for brewery and Trademark class 41 for disco. if you have packed food products as well, you should also register for class 30.

 

 

Trademark Class for Spices : Class 30

 

A manufacturing plant of spices or a unique brand of spices need to be registered in trademark class 30.

 

Following are the examples of spices that can be included in class 30.

 

• Chana masala
• Haldi
• Dhaniya Powder
• Raita Masala
• Pav Bhaji Masala
• Jaljeera powder
• Achari Masala etc.

 

Examples of spices brands registered under class 30.

 

• MDH Masale
• Badshah Masale
• Catch Masale
• Patanjali
• Ramdev Masale
• CIBA
• Everest
• Priya
• Pushp
• MTR
• Goldy

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Summary

 

Class 43 and 30 are the trademark class for most of the food categories. They are the Restaurant trademark class, trademark class for food products and trademark class for spices. Contact us for a free consultation on your trademark.