A comprehensive guide to Class 36 of the Trademark Filing Classification. Trademarks must be applied or registered under classes and each class represents a distinct class of goods or services. In this post, we comprehensively cover the services which fall under Class 36 of trademark classification.

Trademark Class 36

Trademark Class 36 pertains to insurance; financial affairs; monetary affairs; real estate affairs.

The following services are also classified under Class 36:

• Services of all the banking establishments, or institutions connected with them such as exchange brokers or clearing services;
• Services of credit institutions other than banks such as co-operative credit associations, individual financial companies, lenders, etc.;
• Services of “investment trusts,” of holding companies;
• Services of brokers dealing in shares and property;
• Services connected with monetary affairs vouched for by trustees;
• Services rendered in connection with the issue of travellers’ cheques and letters of credit;
• Hire- or lease-purchase financing;
• Services of realty administrators of buildings, i.e., services of letting or valuation, or financing;
• Services dealing with insurance such as services rendered by agents or brokers engaged in insurance, services rendered to insured, and insurance underwriting services.

Therefore, Trademark Class 36 includes services rendered in financial and monetary affairs and services rendered in relation to insurance contracts of all kinds.

List of services classified under Trademark Class 36

The following services must be classified under Trademark Class 36:

• accident insurance underwriting
• accommodation bureaux [apartments]
• actuarial services
• antique appraisal
• apartment house management
• rental of apartments
• art appraisal
• banking
• brokerage*
• brokerage of carbon credits
• business liquidation services, financial
• capital investment
• charitable fund raising
• check [cheque] verification
• clearing, financial / clearing-houses, financial
• credit bureaux
• credit card services
• issuance of credit cards
• customs brokerage
• debit card services
• debt collection agencies
• debt advisory services
• deposits of valuables
• electronic funds transfer
• exchanging money
• factoring
• arranging finance for construction projects
• financial evaluation [insurance, banking, real estate]
• financial management
• financial analysis
• financial consultancy
• financial information
• financial sponsorship
• financial evaluation of standing timber / financial valuation of standing timber
• financial evaluation of wool / financial valuation of wool
• providing financial information via a web site
• financial management of reimbursement payments for others
• financing services
• fire insurance underwriting
• fiscal assessments / fiscal valuations
• health insurance underwriting
• hire-purchase financing / lease-purchase financing
• instalment loans
• insurance brokerage
• insurance underwriting
• insurance consultancy
• insurance information
• investment of funds
• jewellery [jewelry (Am.)] appraisal / jewellery appraisal / jewelry appraisal
• leasing of real estate
• leasing of farms
• lending against security
• life insurance underwriting
• loans [financing]
• marine insurance underwriting
• mortgage banking
• mutual funds
• numismatic appraisal
• rental of offices [real estate]
• online banking
• organization of collections
• pawnbrokerage
• provident fund services
• real estate agencies
• real estate brokerage
• real estate appraisal
• real estate management
• rent collection
• repair costs evaluation [financial appraisal]
• retirement payment services
• safe deposit services
• savings bank services
• securities brokerage
• stamp appraisal
• stock exchange quotations
• stock brokerage services
• stocks and bonds brokerage
• surety services / bail-bonding / guarantees
• issuance of tokens of value
• issuance of travellers’ cheques / issuance of travelers’ checks
• trusteeship / fiduciary