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…?
目次 Index
- Class 31 is a classification of unprocessed agricultural or aquacultural products, natural plants and live animals
- Goods included in Class 31 and Not included in Class 31
- What should you do if you want to specify such product ? (Goods included in Class 31)
- Other goods
- Services Not included in Class 31
- File a trademark application in Japan, designating goods 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.
- wreaths of natural flowers for ceremonies or funerals
- fishing baits
- hops
- edible aquatic animals, live
- edible seaweeds, unprocessed
- fresh vegetables, other than tea leaves
- tea leaves, unprocessed
- sugar crops
- fruit, fresh
- malt, not for food
- foxtail millet, unprocessed
- proso millet, unprocessed
- sesame, unprocessed
- buckwheat, unprocessed
- corn [unprocessed grain]
- Japanese barnyard millet, unprocessed
- wheat, barley and oats, unprocessed
- rice, unprocessed
- sorghum, unprocessed
- protein foodstuffs for animal consumption
- animal foodstuffs
- seeds and bulbs
- trees
- grasses [plants]
- turf, natural
- dried flowers
- seedlings
- saplings
- flowers [natural]
- pasture grass
- potted dwarfed trees [Bonsai]
- live mammals, fish [not for food], birds and insects
- silkworm eggs
- cocoons for silkworm breeding
- eggs for hatching
- Urushi tree seeds
- rough cork
- palm tree leaves, unworked
- wreaths of natural flowers for ceremonies or funerals
- fishing baits
- hops
- edible aquatic animals, live
- edible seaweeds, unprocessed
- fresh vegetables, other than tea leaves
- tea leaves, unprocessed
- sugar crops
- fruit, fresh
- malt, not for food
- foxtail millet, unprocessed
- proso millet, unprocessed
- sesame, unprocessed
- buckwheat, unprocessed
- corn [unprocessed grain]
- Japanese barnyard millet, unprocessed
- wheat, barley and oats, unprocessed
- rice, unprocessed
- sorghum, unprocessed
- protein foodstuffs for animal consumption
- animal foodstuffs
- seeds and bulbs
- trees
- grasses [plants]
- turf, natural
- dried flowers
- seedlings
- saplings
- flowers [natural]
- pasture grass
- potted dwarfed trees [Bonsai]
- live mammals, fish [not for food], birds and insects
- silkworm eggs
- cocoons for silkworm breeding
- eggs for hatching
- Urushi tree seeds
- rough cork
- palm tree leaves, unworked
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 specify | → | Selected 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 specify | → | Selected 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 specify | → | Selected 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)
- ark-shells, not live
- short-necked clams, not live
- sweetfish, not live
- abalones, not live
- cuttlefish, squids and calamaries, not live
- oysters, 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
- frozen vegetables
- frozen fruits
- processed seafood products
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)”
