Trademark Class 43 of Nice Classification - the complete guide

What is Trademark Class 43?

Trademark Class 43 covers services related to providing food, beverages, and temporary accommodations. This class is essential for businesses in the hospitality and dining sectors.

Examples include restaurants, cafes, catering companies, and hotels offering lodging services.

The services in this class cater to both personal and corporate needs, providing comfort and convenience.

What are key features of Class 43?

Key features include personalized service, diverse culinary offerings, and facilities for short-term accommodation.

Class 43 for trademarks: a brief description

Class 43 includes services aimed at satisfying the essential needs of individuals, such as meals and temporary lodging. Businesses in this class operate in the hospitality industry, ensuring quality and comfort for their customers.

This class also covers specialized services like food delivery or catering for events.

Practical examples of Class 43

Examples include family-run guesthouses, luxury hotels, or catering services for corporate events.

What Does Class 43 Include?

Class 43 will, therefore be more involved with services of preparation of food and drinks for human or consumer consumption and services associated with temporary lodging. Businesses associated here are for all those willing to spend some short time in a location for food related purposes. Here, one needs comfort, convenience, and quality.

Variable Services in Class 43

This class includes services like hotel reservation and other forms of temporary accommodations. It covers even more specialized services, including animal boarding, suitable for pet owners who need to be away for some time with their animals. Retirement home services, day-nurseries, and crèches fall under this class as well, thereby showing how this class takes care of a whole range of care and support throughout the lifecycle.

More still, Class 43 encompasses food decoration and sculpting, which involve creative services about the presentation of food, and rental of items necessary for cooking and dining such as chairs, tables, table linen, and glassware. It is a class that encompasses businesses offering hookah lounge services and personal chef services to those who want customized recreations and dining alternatives.

Whether providing a warm roof or catering for special culinary services, Class 43 covers a wide range of activities in the field of hospitality, care, and creativity.

Trademark Class 43 does not include

While Class 43 deals exclusively with services related to food, drinks, and temporary accommodations, some specific, related services have been omitted that fall elsewhere. These omissions help further narrow the definition of Class 43 and, accordingly, also properly classify businesses involved with complementary or other overlapping service sectors.

To name a few, hotel business management services are classified under Class 35, whereas rental services relating to real estate, such as houses or flats for residential purposes, are classified under Class 36. Housekeeping and cleaning services fall under Class 37, and travel or transport reservation services fall under Class 39. Class 40 includes beer brewing, wine making, custom bread manufacturing, food smoking, and preservation.

Other Exclusions

Educational, instructional, and entertainment services, including ancillary lodging or food and drink (such as boarding schools, sports camps, and nightclubs) are classified in Class 41. Services of providing museum facilities also are in this class. Convalescent home and rest home services are in Class 44, and babysitting and pet-sitting services are in Class 45.

Knowing these exclusions, businesses can ensure that their services are registered in the correct trademark class so as not to be misclassified and ensure that the legal protection matches their offerings.

Full list of goods or services

430004 — accommodation bureau services [hotels, boarding houses],  
430203 — animal pound services,  
430138 — bar services,  
430134 — boarding for animals,  
430104 — boarding house bookings,  
430066 — boarding house services,  
430024 — café services,  
430025 — cafeteria services,  
430198 — cake decorating,  
430027 — canteen services,  
430098 — day-nursery [crèche] services,  
430197 — decorating of food,  
430010 — food and drink catering,  
430208 — food reviewing services [provision of information about food and drinks],  
430193 — food sculpting,  
430213 — ghost kitchen services,  
430145 — holiday camp services [lodging],  
430201 — hookah lounge services,  
430073 — hotel accommodation services,  
430105 — hotel reservations,  
430199 — information and advice in relation to the preparation of meals,  
430183 — motel services,  
430200 — personal chef services,  
430026 — providing campground facilities,  
430202 — reception services for temporary accommodation [conferment of keys],  
430194 — reception services for temporary accommodation [management of arrivals and departures],  
430186 — rental of chairs, tables, table linen, glassware,  
430190 — rental of cooking apparatus,  
430191 — rental of drinking water dispensers,  
430210 — rental of furniture,  
430205 — rental of holiday accommodation / rental of vacation accommodation,  
430206 — rental of kitchen sinks,  
430192 — rental of lighting apparatus*,  
430187 — rental of meeting rooms,  
430211 — rental of office furniture,  
430207 — rental of portable dressing rooms,  
430212 — rental of robots for preparing beverages,  
430028 — rental of temporary accommodation,  
430189 — rental of tents,  
430160 — rental of transportable buildings,  
430102 — restaurant services,  
430013 — retirement home services,  
430107 — self-service restaurant services,  
430108 — snack-bar services,  
430209 — take-away restaurant services,  
430204 — temporary accommodation provided by halfway houses,  
430162 — temporary accommodation reservations,  
430071 — tourist home services,  
430196 — udon and soba restaurant services,  
430195 — washoku restaurant services.