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2005 California Business and Professions Code Sections 14290-14292 Article 9. Classification
BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODESECTION 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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