Merchandise Class Codes

The World Intellectual Property Organization maintains a database of goods and corresponding classes. Use the buttons below to navigate to the WIPO Nice Classification website and search for goods alphabetically or by class.

Under 9 V.S.A. § 2521, service marks are not qualified for registry at the state level in Vermont. Federal Class Codes 35 through 45 are not available as merchandise class codes for Vermont trademark registration.

General Remarks & Criteria

If a product cannot be classified with the aid of the class list, explanatory notes or alphabetical list, the following remarks set forth the criteria to be applied:

(a) A finished product is in principle classified according to its function or purpose. If the function or purpose of a finished product is not mentioned in any class heading, the finished product is classified by analogy with other comparable finished products, indicated in the Alphabetical List. If none is found, other subsidiary criteria, such as that of the material of which the product is made or its mode of operation, are applied.

(b) A finished product which is a multipurpose composite object (e.g., clocks incorporating radios) may be classified in all classes that correspond to any of its functions or intended purposes. If those functions or purposes are not mentioned in any class heading, other criteria, indicated under (a), above, are to be applied.

(c) Raw materials, unworked or semi-worked, are in principle classified according to the material of which they consist.

(d) Goods intended to form part of another product are in principle classified in the same class as that product only in cases where the same type of goods cannot normally be used for another purpose. In all other cases, the criterion indicated under (a), above, applies.

(e) When a product, whether finished or not, is classified according to the material of which it is made, and it is made of different materials, the product is in principle classified according to the material which predominates.

(f) Cases adapted to the product they are intended to contain are in principle classified in the same class as the product.