In this post, we explained the trademark registration for Meat And Processed Food Products, trademark Class 29 and other related services and to get trademark registration service.
Trade mark class 29 may be relevant to your goods if they relate to meat, dried fruits and vegetables, jams and compote, milk and milk products and edible oils and fats. The trade mark class determines the scope of your trade mark protection.
Meat and processed food products are in Class 29 of trademark categories. It primarily covers meats and other processed foods. Trademarks are divided into 45 classes, broken down by 34 goods and 11 services, as classified by the nice classification system.
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It is important to note that your trade mark will only be protected under the classes you select. The trade mark class system allows businesses with the same name operating in different markets to coexist without infringing on each other’s’ trademarks.
What is a class 29 trademark?
Trade mark class 29 relates primarily to meat and processed food products such as: Meat, fish, poultry and game; Meat extracts; Preserved, frozen, dried and cooked fruits and vegetables; Jellies, jams, compotes; Eggs; Milk, cheese, butter, yoghurt and other milk products; Oils and fats for food.
What is Coordinated class?
Coordinated classes refer to similar or related trademark classes. The following classes are considered coordinated with trade mark class 29:
- pharmaceuticals, class 5;
- coffee, flour, and rice, class 30;
- grains and agriculture, class 31;
- science and technology services, class 42.
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List of services included in class 29 trademark.
Meats: animal marrow for food, bacon, charcuterie, game, not live, gelatin, ham, liver, meat, meat extracts, meat, preserved, tinned [canned (Am.)], pork, poultry, not live, black pudding [blood sausage]/black pudding/blood sausage, salted meats, sausages, tripe.
Meat spreads: meat extracts; preserve meats.
Frozen vegetables: dried and cooked fruits and vegetables; jellies, jams, compotes; eggs, milk and milk products; edible oils and fats.
Milk: milk beverages, milk predominating, milk products, milk shakes, milk ferments for culinary purposes, milk of almonds for culinary purposes, condensed milk, soya milk “milk substitute,” and “soured milk.”
Olives: olive oil for food, preserved olives.
Coconut butter: coconut, desiccated coconut fat, coconut oil.
Nuts: ground nuts, almonds, sunflower oil for food, sunflower seeds, prepared sunflowers, peanuts, prepared peanuts, peanut butter, peanut milk for culinary purposes, sesame oil.
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Fish and seafood: fish fillets, preserved fish, tinned or canned fish, fish mousses fish roe, salmon products, caviar, crayfish, foods made from fish, lobster products, spiny lobsters, oyster products, shellfish products, clams, prawns, crustaceans, sardines, shrimp, mussels, seaweed products, silkworm chrysalis, sea-cucumbers.
Cheeses and dairy: charcuterie, croquettes, butter, buttercream, compotes, butter, buttercream, margarine jams, jellies for food, liver pâté, liver pastes, ginger jam, gelatin.
Fruits: preserved fruit, stewed fruit, fruit jellies, fruit pulp, fruit salads, fruit peel, fruit chips, fruit preserved in alcohol, fruit-based snack food, frozen fruits, canned or tinned fruits, crystallized fruits, frosted fruits, dates
Processed meat: Meat, sausages, sausages in batter, salted meats, poultry, chicken, duck, hen, quail, game, pork, ham.
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Services that are not included in class 29 trademark.
- Baby food (Cl. 5);
- Dietetic substances adapted for medical use (Cl. 5);
- Salad dressings (Cl. 30);
- Fertilized eggs for hatching (Cl. 31);
- Foodstuffs for animals (Cl. 31);
- Live animals (Cl. 31).
If your goods are any of the above products, you will need to explore different trademark classes, including coordinated trademark classes.