Trademark Class 2 of Nice Classification - the complete guide

What is Trademark Class 2?

Trademark Class 2 covers paints, varnishes, and dyes, as well as related products for coating, protecting, and coloring surfaces. This class is essential for businesses producing or distributing paints and related products.

Examples include manufacturers of wall paints, industrial coatings, and wood varnishes. Class 2 ensures proper trademark classification for decorative and protective coating products.

What are key features of Class 2?

Key features include products used for painting, varnishing, and coloring surfaces in residential, commercial, and industrial settings.

Class 2 for trademarks: a brief description

Class 2 encompasses paints, varnishes, lacquers, and dyes, as well as coatings for protection and decoration. Businesses in this class serve the construction, automotive, and textile industries.

Products in this class enhance and protect surfaces while providing aesthetic value.

Practical examples of Class 2

Examples include producers of acrylic paints, manufacturers of industrial dyes, and companies specializing in automotive finishes.

What Does Class 2 Include?

Class 2 is dominated by coatings, colorants, preservatives, and paints for industrial, decorative, and artistic purposes. The class has a very broad array of products utilized for protection, coloring, and decoration of surfaces in numerous various industries. 

Important Products in Class 2

These are lacquers, varnishes, and paints, and they are used in industry, handicraft, and art. They are used to provide films that are both protective and decorative, creating stability and enhancing appearance. Thinners, thickeners, fixatives, and siccatives are also part of it used to alter paint, varnish, and lacquer consistency as well as the drying properties.

Class 2 also includes mordants, chemicals that are used for the treatment of leather and wood to promote the absorption of colors and improve strength. Anti-rust oils and wood preservative oils come under this class, as they are utilized for surface covering in defense against atmospheric corrosion and decay.

Besides, the course covers different colorants and dyes. Apparel dyestuffs, which are applied to produce deep and lasting color in textile manufacturing, fall under this category. Additionally, food and drinks colorants are included so that the course covers consumer and industrial applications of surface treatment and coloration.

Trademark Class 2 does not include

Although Class 2 includes primarily paints, coatings, and colorants, certain associated items are excepted and fall under other trademark classes. Exceptions in the majority of instances include raw resins, cleaning and cosmetic dyes, writing stationery ink, and insulation coatings that serve various purposes other than decorative or protection painting.

For example, unworked artificial resins fall within Class 1 since they are chemical products used in industrial processing rather than manufactured finishes. Similarly, semi-worked resins, which fall between intermediate materials in various manufacturing processes, belong to Class 17. Again, mordants for treating metals fall in Class 1 since they are chemical processing agents rather than treatments of wood or leather.

More Exclusions

Some cosmetic products with colorants and dyes are also excluded from Class 2. Bleach and laundry blueing products belong to Class 3 as they are applied on clean clothing and not in the form of usual dyes or paints. Cosmetic dyes for the purposes of personal care, such as coloring the hair or applying make-up, also belong to Class 3 and not to industrial or art colorants.

Besides that, stationery and insulation materials are categorized by themselves. Paint boxes designed for school use, as well as printing and writing inks, are in Class 16 since they are used for the purpose of schools or office use rather than industrial painting use. Similarly, insulating paint and varnishes are in Class 17 since they are used for purposes in the field of electric and thermal insulation rather than covering surfaces in general. Such exclusions ensure products are classified appropriately based on their primary function so that accurate product classification and trademark registration can be achieved.

Full list of goods or services

020001 — paints*,  
020002 — mordants*,  
020003 — varnishes*,  
020004 — colourings for beverages / colorings for beverages,  
020005 — food colouring / food coloring,  
020006 — alizarine dyes,  
020007 — aluminium paints,  
020008 — aluminium powder for painting,  
020009 — asbestos paints,  
020010 — anti-corrosive preparations,  
020011 — fixatives for watercolours / fixatives for watercolors,  
020014 — silver paste,  
020015 — silver emulsions [pigments],  
020016 — silvering powders,  
020017 — black japan,  
020018 — auramine,  
020019 — bactericidal paints,  
020020 — badigeon,  
020021 — anti-corrosive bands,  
020022 — Canada balsam,  
020023 — colourings for butter / colorings for butter,  
020024 — colourings for beer / colorings for beer,  
020025 — bitumen varnish,  
020026 — wood coatings [paints],  
020027 — wood mordants,  
020028 — wood stains,  
020029 — sienna earth,  
020031 — bronzing lacquers,  
020032 — bronze powder for painting,  
020033 — ink for leather,  
020034 — caramel [food colouring] / caramel [food coloring],  
020035 — malt caramel [food colouring] / malt caramel [food coloring],  
020036 — coatings for roofing felt [paints],  
020037 — ceramic paints,  
020038 — white lead,  
020039 — carbon black [pigment],  
020040 — undercoating for vehicle chassis / undersealing for vehicle chassis,  
020041 — shoe dyes,  
020042 — lime wash,  
020043 — printers' pastes [ink],  
020044 — cobalt oxide [colorant],  
020045 — cochineal carmine,  
020046 — colophony*,  
020047 — colorants*,  
020048 — malt colorants,  
020049 — wood preservatives,  
020050 — copal,  
020052 — aniline dyes,  
020053 — thinners for paints,  
020054 — thinners for lacquers,  
020055 — thickeners for paints,  
020056 — creosote for wood preservation,  
020057 — stains for leather / mordants for leather,  
020058 — dyes*,  
020059 — pigments,  
020060 — turmeric [colorant],  
020061 — natural resins, raw,  
020062 — distempers,  
020064 — enamels [varnishes],  
020065 — enamels for painting / enamel paints,  
020066 — printing ink,  
020067 — marking ink for animals,  
020068 — siccatives [drying agents] for paints,  
020070 — coatings [paints],  
020072 — fixatives [varnishes],  
020073 — lamp black [pigment],  
020074 — yellowwood [colorant],  
020075 — glazes [paints, lacquers],  
020076 — gamboge for painting,  
020077 — gum-lac / shellac,  
020078 — gum resins,  
020079 — anti-rust greases,  
020080 — engraving ink,  
020081 — zinc oxide [pigment],  
020082 — oils for the preservation of wood,  
020083 — anti-rust oils,  
020085 — fireproof paints,  
020086 — indigo [colorant],  
020087 — binding preparations for paints / agglutinants for paints,  
020088 — colourings for liqueurs / colorings for liqueurs,  
020089 — orange lead / litharge,  
020090 — metals in powder form for use in painting, decorating, printing and art,  
020091 — mastic [natural resin],  
020092 — metal foil for use in painting, decorating, printing and art,  
020093 — anti-tarnishing preparations for metals,  
020094 — protective preparations for metals,  
020095 — red lead / minium,  
020096 — paper for dyeing Easter eggs,  
020098 — annotto [dyestuff] / annatto [dyestuff],  
020099 — saffron [colorant],  
020100 — sandarac,  
020101 — soot [colorant],  
020102 — sumac for varnishes,  
020106 — titanium dioxide [pigment],  
020107 — anti-rust preparations,  
020108 — primers,  
020110 — whitewash,  
020111 — dyewood / dye-wood,  
020112 — dyewood extracts / wood dyestuffs,  
020113 — carbonyl for wood preservation,  
020114 — copal varnish,  
020115 — lacquers*,  
020121 — ink for printers and photocopiers,  
020122 — anti-fouling paints,  
020123 — toner cartridges, filled, for printers and photocopiers,  
020124 — turpentine [thinner for paints],  
020125 — repositionable paint patches,  
020126 — watercolour paints for use in art / watercolor paints for use in art,  
020127 — oil paints for use in art,  
020128 — edible inks,  
020129 — edible ink cartridges, filled, for printers,  
020130 — colorants for the restoration of furniture in the form of markers,  
020131 — anti-graffiti coatings [paints],  
020132 — toner for printers and photocopiers,  
020133 — ink cartridges, filled, for printers and photocopiers,  
020134 — wood floor finishes,  
020135 — anti-urine paints,  
020136 — conductive paints,  
020137 — conductive inks,  
020138 — tattooing ink,  
020139 — dyestuffs,  
020140 — glitter for use in paint,  
020141 — masking fluid for use in watercolour painting / masking fluid for use in watercolor painting.