Trademark Class 13 of Nice Classification - the complete guide

What is Trademark Class 13?

Trademark Class 13 covers firearms, ammunition, and explosives. This class includes goods designed for defense, security, hunting, and recreational use.

Examples include rifles, bullets, and fireworks. Businesses in this class serve industries ranging from defense and security to sports and entertainment.

What are key features of Class 13?

Key features include weapons, ammunition, and products designed for explosive or pyrotechnic purposes.

Class 13 for trademarks: a brief description

Class 13 encompasses firearms, ammunition, and explosives, as well as related products like pyrotechnics. This class supports businesses manufacturing, distributing, or servicing defense and recreational weaponry.

Products in this class cater to both professional and civilian users.

Practical examples of Class 13

Examples include rifle manufacturers, ammunition suppliers, and companies specializing in fireworks.

What Does Class 13 Include?

Class 13 consists primarily of firearms, ammunition, and pyrotechnic devices for defense, hunting, sporting, and signaling. This class includes explosive and non-explosive weapons, including accessories for such weapons.

Main Products in Class 13

It will have a few varieties of rescue and signaling flares, which will be explosive and pyrotechnic in nature, generally adopted for emergencies. The flare pistols and explosive fog signals, together with the signal rocket flares, come into this class as they are assistance for distress and direction-finding.

Class 13 has included sprays of a nature nonlethal to personal defense purposes. Air pistols in this class would be included weapons, most people use sport shootings training and other kinds of recreation that involve them.

Accessories classed here also include, but are not limited to, bandoliers for carrying ammunition. The Class also includes Firearms and Hunting Sport Firearms, sporting guns, guns for hunting and professional purposes. Class 13 thus covers Firearms, Defense equipment, and Signaling Equipment for safety, sport, and security-related products.

Trademark Class 13 does not include

While Class 13 is primarily comprised of firearms, defense equipment, and pyrotechnics, some related products are excluded and fall into other trademark classes. These generally include products for the maintenance of weapons, nonexplosive signaling apparatus, weapons other than firearms, and toy replicas of firearms.

For instance, grease used in guns is not a Class 13 product; it falls under Class 4 because it is a lubricant, not an accessory to the weapon. Similarly, blades and side arms that are not classified as firearms, such as knives and swords, fall under Class 8, hand tools or melee weapons, not firearms.

Other Exclusions

Also excluded are those specific signaling and optical devices, which operate in conjunction with firearms or rescue operations. Class 9 also includes non-explosive fog signals and rescue laser signaling flares because these appliances provide electronic or visual signaling and are not pyrotechnic devices. Telescopic sights for firearms also fall into Class 9 because they function as optical equipment rather than a weapon. Class 11 covers flaming torches, since they are for illumination purposes rather than signaling or defense.

Other exclusions in Class 13 are toy replicas and celebratory items. All these — Christmas crackers, percussion caps which are classified as toys, and toy air pistols — fall under Class 28 since they are for entertainment rather than self-defense or hunting. Matches also go into Class 34, because they are for ignition rather than anything to do with firearms or pyrotechnics. Such exclusions make sure that entrepreneurs classify their products correctly according to their function and intended use and, therefore, enable the accurate registration of their trademarks.

Full list of goods or services

130001 — acetyl-nitrocellulose,
130002 — gun carriages [artillery],
130003 — explosive cartridges,
130005 — ammonium nitrate explosives,
130006 — detonators,
130007 — motorized weapons,
130008 — tear-gas weapons,
130009 — firearms,
130010 — cleaning brushes for firearms,
130013 — fireworks,
130014 — artillery guns [cannons],
130015 — ballistic weapons / ballistic missiles,
130016 — apparatus for filling cartridge belts,
130017 — Bengal lights,
130018 — detonating plugs,
130019 — cartridge cases,
130020 — cannons,
130021 — rifle barrels / gun barrels,
130022 — rifles / carbines,
130023 — cartridges*,
130024 — cartridge loading apparatus,
130025 — cartridge pouches,
130026 — hunting firearms / sporting firearms,
130027 — ammunition,
130028 — hammers for guns and rifles / hammers for guns / hammers for rifles,
130029 — powder horns,
130030 — guncotton / pyroxylin,
130031 — breeches of firearms,
130032 — dynamite,
130033 — rifle cases / gun cases,
130034 — explosives,
130035 — signal rocket flares,
130036 — guns [weapons],
130037 — gunstocks,
130038 — sighting mirrors for guns and rifles / sighting mirrors for guns / sighting mirrors for rifles,
130040 — trigger guards for guns and rifles / trigger guards for rifles,
130041 — lead shot for hunting,
130042 — ammunition for firearms,
130043 — rocket launchers,
130044 — fuses for explosives, for use in mines,
130045 — mines [explosives],
130046 — machine guns,
130047 — mortars [firearms],
130048 — shells [projectiles],
130049 — pistols [arms],
130050 — gunpowder,
130051 — explosive powders,
130052 — projectiles [weapons],
130053 — pyrophoric substances,
130054 — pyrotechnic products,
130055 — revolvers,
130056 — trunnions for heavy weapons,
130057 — firing platforms,
130058 — sights, other than telescopic sights, for firearms,
130059 — air pistols [weapons],
130060 — fuses for explosives,
130061 — primings [fuses],
130062 — detonating fuses for explosives / firing lanyards for explosives,
130063 — shoulder straps for weapons / bandoliers for weapons,
130064 — fog signals, explosive,
130065 — sights, other than telescopic sights, for artillery,
130066 — detonating caps, other than toys / percussion caps, other than toys,
130068 — rockets [projectiles],
130069 — harpoon guns,
130070 — noise-suppressors for guns,
130071 — tanks [weapons],
130072 — firecrackers,
130073 — sprays for personal defence purposes / sprays for personal defense purposes,
130074 — belts adapted for ammunition,
130075 — automatic firearm ammunition belts,
130076 — torpedoes,
130077 — side arms [firearms],
130078 — hand grenades,
130079 — flare pistols,
130080 — rescue flares, explosive or pyrotechnic,
130081 — starting pistols / starter pistols,
130082 — harpoons adapted for harpoon guns,
130083 — cruise missiles.