2005 California Business and Professions Code Sections 14290-14292 Article 9. Classification

BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE
SECTION 14290-14292

14290.  General classes of goods and services are established for
convenience of administration of this chapter but not to limit or
extend the applicant's or registrant's rights, and a single
application for registration of a mark may include any or all goods
upon which, or services with which, the mark is actually being used
comprised in a single class, but in no event shall a single
application include goods or services upon which the mark is being
used which fall within different classes of goods or services.
14290.5.  Beginning January 1, 1996, trademark and service mark
registrations issued by the Secretary of State shall apply the
International Classification Code System in the identification of
goods and services used in connection with the mark.
14291.  (a) For purposes of those marks for which a certificate of
registration is issued or renewed, or an assignment is recorded by
the Secretary of State prior to January 1, 1996, the following shall
be classified as "goods":
   1. Raw or partly prepared materials.
   2. Receptacles.
   3. Baggage, animal equipments, portfolios, and pocketbooks.
   4. Abrasives and polishing materials.
   5. Adhesives.
   6. Chemicals and chemical compositions.
   7. Cordage.
   8. Smokers' articles not including tobacco products.
   9. Explosives, firearms, equipments, and projectiles.
   10. Fertilizers.
   11. Inks and inking materials.
   12. Construction materials.
   13. Hardware and plumbing and steamfitting supplies.
   14. Metals and metal castings and forgings.
   15. Oils and greases.
   16. Paints and painters' materials.
   17. Tobacco products.
   18. Medicines and pharmaceutical preparations.
   19. Vehicles.
   20. Linoleum and oiled cloth.
   21. Electrical apparatus, machines, and supplies.
   22. Games, toys, and sporting goods.
   23. Cutlery, machinery, and tools and parts thereof.
   24. Laundry appliances and machines.
   25. Locks and safes.
   26. Measuring and scientific appliances.
   27. Horological instruments.
   28. Jewelry and precious metalware.
   29. Brooms, brushes, and dusters.
   30. Crockery, earthenware, and porcelain.
   31. Filters and refrigerators.
   32. Furniture and upholstery.
   33. Glassware.
   34. Heating, lighting, and ventilating apparatus.
   35. Belting, hose, machinery packing, and nonmetallic tires.
   36. Musical instruments and supplies.
   37. Paper and stationery.
   38. Prints and publications.
   39. Clothing.
   40. Fancy goods, furnishings, and notions.
   41. Canes, parasols, and umbrellas.
   42. Knitted, netted and textile fabrics, and substitutes therefor.
   43. Thread and yarn.
   44. Dental, medical, and surgical appliances.
   45. Soft drinks and carbonated waters.
   46. Foods and ingredients of foods.
   47. Wines.
   48. Malt beverage and liquors.
   49. Distilled alcoholic liquors.
   50. Merchandise not otherwise classified.
   51. Cosmetics and toilet preparations.
   52. Detergents and soaps.
   (b) For purposes of those marks for which a certificate of
registration is issued or renewed, or an assignment is recorded by
the Secretary of State on or after January 1, 1996, the following
shall be classified as "goods":
   1. Chemical products used in industry, science, photography,
agriculture, horticulture, and forestry; artificial and synthetic
resins; plastics in the form of powders, liquids, or pastes, for
industrial use; manures (natural and artificial); fire-extinguishing
compositions; tempering substances and chemical preparations for
soldering; chemical substances for preserving foodstuffs; tanning
substances; adhesive substances used in industry.
   2. Paints, varnishes, and lacquers; preservatives against rust and
against deterioration of wood; coloring matters and dyestuffs;
mordants; natural resins; metals in foil and powder form for painters
and decorators.
   3. Bleaching preparations and other substances for laundry use;
cleaning, polishing, scouring, and abrasive preparations; soaps;
perfumery, essential oils, cosmetics, and hair lotions; dentifrices.
   4. Industrial oils and greases (other than oils and fats and
essential oils); lubricants; dust-laying and absorbing compositions;
fuels (including motor spirit) and illuminants; candles, tapers,
night lights, and wicks.
   5. Pharmaceutical, veterinary, and sanitary substances; infants'
and invalids' foods; plasters and material for bandaging; material
for stopping teeth, dental wax, and disinfectants; preparations for
killing weeds and destroying vermin.
   6. Unwrought and partly wrought common metals and their alloys;
anchors, anvils, bells, and rolled and cast building materials; rails
and other metallic materials for railway tracks; chains (except for
driving chains for vehicles); cables and wires (nonelectric);
locksmiths' work; metallic pipes and tubes; safes and cash boxes;
steel balls; horseshoes; nails and screws; other goods in nonprecious
metal not included in other classes; ores.
   7. Machines and machine tools; motors (except for land vehicles);
machine couplings and belting (except for land vehicles); large-size
agricultural implements; incubators.
   8. Hand tools and instruments; cutlery, forks, and spoons; side
arms.
   9. Scientific, nautical, surveying, and electrical apparatus and
instruments (including wireless), and photographic, cinematographic,
optical, weighing, measuring, signaling, checking (supervision),
lifesaving, and teaching apparatus and instruments; coin or
counterfreed apparatus; talking machines; cash registers; calculating
machines; fire-extinguishing apparatus.
   10. Surgical, medical, dental, and veterinary instruments and
apparatus (including artificial limbs, eyes, and teeth).
   11. Installations for lighting, heating, steam generating,
cooking, refrigerating, drying, ventilating, water supply, and
sanitary purposes.
   12. Vehicles; apparatus for locomotion by land, air, or water.
   13. Firearms; ammunition and projectiles; explosive substances;
fireworks.
   14. Precious metals and their alloys and goods in precious metals
or coated therewith (except cutlery, forks, and spoons); jewelry,
precious stones, and horological and other chronometric instruments.
   15. Musical instruments (other than talking machines and wireless
apparatus).
   16. Paper and paper articles and cardboard and cardboard articles;
printed matter, newspapers and periodicals, and books; bookbinding
material; photographs; stationery and adhesive materials
(stationery); artists' materials; paintbrushes; typewriters and
office requisites (other than furniture); instructional and teaching
material (other than apparatus); playing cards; printers' type and
cliches (stereotype).
   17. Gutta percha, india rubber, balata, and substitutes, articles
made from these substances and not included in other classes;
plastics in the form of sheets, blocks, and rods, being for use in
manufacture; materials for packing, stopping, or insulating;
asbestos, mica, and their products; hose pipes (nonmetallic).
   18. Leather and imitations of leather, and articles made from
these materials and not included in other classes; skins and hides;
trunks and traveling bags; umbrellas, parasols, and walking sticks;
whips, harnesses, and saddlery.
   19. Building materials, natural and artificial stone, cement,
lime, mortar, plaster, and gravel; pipes of earthenware or cement;
roadmaking materials; asphalt, pitch, and bitumen; portable
buildings; stone monuments; chimney pots.
   20. Furniture, mirrors, picture frames; articles (not included in
other classes) of wood, cork, reeds, cane, wicker, horn, bone, ivory,
whalebone, shell, amber, mother-of-pearl, meerschaum, celluloid,
substitutes for all these materials, or of plastics.
   21. Small domestic utensils and containers (not of precious
metals, or coated therewith); combs and sponges; brushes (other than
paint brushes); brushmaking materials; instruments and material for
cleaning purposes, steel wool; unworked or semiworked glass
(excluding glass used in building); glassware, porcelain, and
earthenware not included in other classes.
   22. Ropes, strings, nets, tents, awnings, tarpaulins, sails, and
sacks; padding and stuffing materials (hair, kapok, feathers,
seaweed, etc.); raw fibrous textile materials.
   23. Yarns and threads.
   24. Tissues (piece goods); bed and table covers; textile articles
not included in other classes.
   25. Clothing, including boots, shoes, and slippers.
   26. Lace and embroidery, ribands, and braid; buttons, press
buttons, hooks and eyes, pins, and needles; artificial flowers.
   27. Carpets, rugs, mats, and matting; linoleums and other
materials for covering existing floors; wall hangings (nontextile).
   28. Games and playthings; gymnastic and sporting articles (except
clothing); ornaments and decorations for Christmas trees.
   29. Meats, fish, poultry, and game; meat extracts; preserved,
dried, and cooked fruits and vegetables; jellies, jams; eggs, milk,
and other dairy products; edible oils and fats; preserves and
pickles.
   30. Coffee, tea, cocoa, sugar, rice, tapioca, sago, and coffee
substitutes; flour and preparations made from cereals; bread,
biscuits, cakes, pastry and confectionery, and ices; honey and
treacle; yeast and baking powder; salt, mustard, pepper, vinegar,
sauces and spices; ice.
   31. Agricultural, horticultural, and forestry products, and grains
not included in other classes; living animals; fresh fruits and
vegetables; seeds; live plants and flowers; foodstuffs for animals
and malt.
   32. Beer, ale, and porter; mineral and aerated waters and other
nonalcoholic drinks; syrups and other preparations for making
beverages.
   33. Wines, spirits, and liqueurs.
   34. Tobacco, raw or manufactured; smokers' articles; matches.
14292.  (a) For purposes of those services for which a certificate
of registration is issued or renewed, or an assignment is recorded by
the Secretary of State prior to January 1, 1996, the following shall
be classified as "services":
   100. Miscellaneous.
   101. Advertising and business.
   102. Insurance and financial.
   103. Construction and repair.
   104. Communications.
   105. Transportation and storage.
   106. Material treatment.
   107. Education and entertainment.
   (b) For purposes of those services for which a certificate of
registration is issued or renewed, or an assignment is recorded by
the Secretary of State on or after January 1, 1996, the following
shall be classified as "services":
   35. Advertising and business.
   36. Insurance and financial.
   37. Construction and repair.
   38. Communication.
   39. Transportation and storage.
   40. Material treatment.
   41. Education and entertainment.
   42. Miscellaneous.


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