Trademark Registration – Classification Guide Class 31 in Japan

I’ve decided to start selling vegetables. First, I’ve prepared a high impact product name and logo for selling the vegetables. I would like to register it as a trademark to prevent others from copying it.

Then, you remember to designate Class 31 that includes “vegetables”. Class 31 includes various goods that are related to raw and unprocessed agricultural and aquacultural produts or natural plants and live animals. Let’s check it.

Considering the future product development of vegetables, it would be better to designate other products in Class 31 as well. If they are in the same class, the cost is the same, but I wonder if we can also designate seedlings of vegetables and saplings in Class 31…?

Class 31 is a classification of unprocessed agricultural or aquacultural products, natural plants and live animals

Class 31 mainly includes unprocessed agricultural or aquacultural products, natural plants and live animals.

Generally, you may easily understand that this class includes the type of goods that are familiar to us in our daily lives such as seedlings, saplings, flowers [natural], edible aquatic animals, live, edible seaweeds, unprocessed and fresh fruit as well as vegetables.

Goods included in Class 31 and Not included in Class 31

List of main goods in Class 31

The following is a list of the main goods included in Class 31.

You may file a Japanese trademark application designating these goods by Amazing DX.

The above list of main goods included in Class 31 is just an example.

Let’s take a closer look at what other goods are included in Class 31 and what goods are not.

What should you do if you want to specify such product ? (Goods included in Class 31)

Goods related to vegetables

→When you want to specify such a product in Amazing DX, please specify the item that is included.

For example, ……

Product you want to specifySelected on Amazing DX
young soybeans in the pod (Eda-mame), fresh
pumpkins (marrows and squashes), fresh
green cabbages, fresh
cucumbers, fresh
Japanese burdock roots (Goboh), fresh
sweet potatoes, fresh
green beans (string beans), fresh
flavoring leaves of Japanese pepper tree (Sansho), fresh
mushrooms (Shiitake), fresh
vegetables, fresh
white radishes, fresh
bamboo shoots, fresh
peppers, fresh
corn [fresh vegetables]
tomatoes, fresh
eggplants, fresh
carrots, fresh
leeks, fresh
Chinese cabbages (Hakusai), fresh
vegetables, fresh
parsley, fresh
Japanese edible butterburs (Fuki), fresh
spinach, fresh
Matsutake mushrooms, fresh
bean sprouts, fresh
lettuce, fresh
Japanese edible horseradishes (Wasabi), fresh
Japanese edible brackens (Warabi), fresh
vegetables, fresh

Goods related to fruits

→When you want to specify such a product in Amazing DX, please specify the item that is included.

For example, ……

Product you want to specifySelected on Amazing DX
almonds, fresh
strawberries, fresh
oranges, fresh
Japanese persimmons, fresh
cashew nuts, fresh
chestnuts, fresh
walnuts, fresh
cola nuts, fresh
coconuts, fresh
watermelons, fresh
fruit, fresh
pears, fresh
bananas, fresh
loquats, fresh
grapes, fresh
hazelnuts, fresh
pine nuts, fresh
mandarin oranges (tangerines), fresh
melons, fresh
peaches, fresh
apples, fresh
lemons, fresh
fruit, fresh

Other goods

Product you want to specifySelected on Amazing DX
fish meal [animal feed]
synthetic animal feed
rice bran [animal feed]
mixed animal feed
soy sauce cakes [animal feed]
animal foodstuffs
sugar cane
sugar beet
sugar crops
sea lettuce [Aosa seaweed]
kelp [Kombu seaweed]
agar [Tengusa seaweed]
laver [Nori seaweed]
brown algae [Hijiki seaweed]
seaweed [Wakame]
edible seaweeds, unprocessed
ark-shells, live
short-necked clams, live
abalones, live
cuttlefish, squids and calamaries, live
sardines, live
shrimps, prawns and lobsters, live
oysters, live
edible aquatic animals, live

Services Not included in Class 31

fresh, chilled or frozen edible aquatic animals (not live)

                  all in【Class 29

I see, so the same edible aquatic animals is classified differently depending on whether it is alive or not.

Yes. A separate class should be designated for edible aquatic animals “not live” .

Other goods not included in Class 31

        all in【Class 29

Frozen or processed vegetables, fruits and edible aquatic animals are not in Class 31!

File a trademark application in Japan, designating goods in Class 31!

Class 31 is a classification of the goods including unprocessed agricultural or aquacultural products, natural plants and live animals. If you are in the industry of agriculture or fisheries, please consider filing a trademark application specifying Class 31 first.

Amazing DX allows you to easily select your designated goods and services online.

First, please select as many goods as possible. After the search, it is easy to exclude the goods marked with × and search again.

If you are not sure which goods or services to select, please feel free to contact us via chat. Our attorneys specializing in trademarks will be happy to answer your questions.

Reference: Japan Patent Office, “Examination Guidelines for Similar Goods and Services (corresponding to the Nice Classification, 11th Edition, Version 2022)”

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