Trademark Class 38: Telecommunications

A comprehensive guide to Class 38 of the Trademark Filing Classification. Trademarks must be applied or registered under classes and each class represents a distinct class of goods or services. In this post, we comprehensively cover the services which fall under Class 38 of trademark classification.

Trademark Class 38

Trademark Class 38 pertains to services allowing at least one person to communicate with another by a sensory means. Such services include those which: 1. allow one person to talk to another, 2. transmit messages from one person to another, and 3. place a person in oral or visual communication with another (radio and television).

The following services are also classified under Class 38:

  • Services which consist essentially of the diffusion of radio or television programmes.

The following services must NOT be classified under Class 38:

  • Radio advertising services;
  • Telephone marketing (telemarketing) services;

Comprehensive list of services classified under Trademark Class 38

The following services must be classified under Trademark Class 38:

  • rental of access time to global computer networks

  • providing access to databases

  • cable television broadcasting

  • communications by telegrams

  • communications by telephone

  • communications by cellular phones

  • communications by computer terminals

  • communications by fibre optic networks / communications by fiber optic networks

  • computer aided transmission of messages and images

  • electronic mail

  • electronic bulletin board services [telecommunications services]

  • facsimile transmission

  • rental of facsimile apparatus

  • information about telecommunication

  • providing internet chatrooms

  • message sending

  • rental of message sending apparatus

  • rental of modems

  • news agencies / wire service

  • providing online forums

  • paging services [radio, telephone or other means of electronic communication]

  • radio broadcasting

  • radio communications

  • satellite transmission

  • streaming of data

  • rental of telecommunication equipment

  • providing telecommunication channels for teleshopping services

  • providing telecommunications connections to a global computer network

  • telecommunications routing and junction services

  • teleconferencing services

  • telegraph services

  • telephone services

  • rental of telephones

  • television broadcasting

  • telex services

  • transmission of telegrams

  • transmission of greeting cards online

  • transmission of digital files

  • providing user access to global computer networks

  • videoconferencing services

  • voice mail services

  • wireless broadcasting