Trademark Class 38: Telecommunications

Trademark Class 38: Telecommunications

Trademark/IP Services

Trademark Classes

  1. Trademark Class 1
  2. Trademark Class 2
  3. Trademark Class 3
  4. Trademark Class 4
  5. Trademark Class 5
  6. Trademark Class 6
  7. Trademark Class 7
  8. Trademark Class 8
  9. Trademark Class 9
  10. Trademark Class 10
  11. Trademark Class 11
  12. Trademark Class 12
  13. Trademark Class 13
  14. Trademark Class 14
  15. Trademark Class 15
  16. Trademark Class 16
  17. Trademark Class 17
  18. Trademark Class 18
  19. Trademark Class 19
  20. Trademark Class 20
  21. Trademark Class 21
  22. Trademark Class 22
  23. Trademark Class 23
  24. Trademark Class 24
  25. Trademark Class 25
  26. Trademark Class 26
  27. Trademark Class 27
  28. Trademark Class 28
  29. Trademark Class 29
  30. Trademark Class 30
  31. Trademark Class 31
  32. Trademark Class 32
  33. Trademark Class 33
  34. Trademark Class 34
  35. Trademark Class 35
  36. Trademark Class 36
  37. Trademark Class 37
  38. Trademark Class 38
  39. Trademark Class 39
  40. Trademark Class 40
  41. Trademark Class 41
  42. Trademark Class 42
  43. Trademark Class 43
  44. Trademark Class 44
  45. Trademark Class 45

A comprehensive guide to Class 38 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 38 of trademark classification.

Trademark Class 38

Trademark Class 38 pertains to services allowing at least one person to communicate with another by a sensory means. Such services include those which: 1. allow one person to talk to another, 2. transmit messages from one person to another, and 3. place a person in oral or visual communication with another (radio and television).

The following services are also classified under Class 38:

  • Services which consist essentially of the diffusion of radio or television programmes.

The following services must NOT be classified under Class 38:

  • Radio advertising services;
  • Telephone marketing (telemarketing) services;

 

List of services classified under Trademark Class 38

The following services must be classified under Trademark Class 38:

  • rental of access time to global computer networks
  • providing access to databases
  • cable television broadcasting
  • communications by telegrams
  • communications by telephone
  • communications by cellular phones
  • communications by computer terminals
  • communications by fibre optic networks / communications by fiber optic networks
  • computer aided transmission of messages and images
  • electronic mail
  • electronic bulletin board services [telecommunications services]
  • facsimile transmission
  • rental of facsimile apparatus
  • information about telecommunication
  • providing internet chatrooms
  • message sending
  • rental of message sending apparatus
  • rental of modems
  • news agencies / wire service
  • providing online forums
  • paging services [radio, telephone or other means of electronic communication]
  • radio broadcasting
  • radio communications
  • satellite transmission
  • streaming of data
  • rental of telecommunication equipment
  • providing telecommunication channels for teleshopping services
  • providing telecommunications connections to a global computer network
  • telecommunications routing and junction services
  • teleconferencing services
  • telegraph services
  • telephone services
  • rental of telephones
  • television broadcasting
  • telex services
  • transmission of telegrams
  • transmission of greeting cards online
  • transmission of digital files
  • providing user access to global computer networks
  • videoconferencing services
  • voice mail services
  • wireless broadcasting