Trademark Registration – Classification Guide – Class 37 in Japan

• How to chose goods/services

I’ve decided to start a construction industry. I’ve prepared a high-impact service name and logo for my construction industry, and I want to register it as a trademark to prevent others from copying it.

Then you need to remember to designate Class 37, which includes “construction”! Class 37 includes many services in the field of construction and services related to the repair and maintenance of various goods. Let’s check it out.

Considering the future development of services in the construction industry, it would be better to designate other services in Class 37. If they are in the same class, the cost is the same, but can we also designate other services, such as “architectural design” in Class 37…?

Class 37 is a classification for services in the field of construction, services for repair and maintenance of various goods, etc.

Class 37 mainly includes services in the field of construction and services related to the repair and maintenance of various goods.

In addition to construction, it may be easier to understand if we associate it with services familiar to us in our daily lives, such as “repair of bicycles”, “furniture restoration”, “shoe repair”, “repair of personal ornaments”, “window cleaning”, and so on.

Services included in Class 37 and services not included

List of main services in Class 37

The main services included in Class 37 are as follows.

You can designate these services and file a trademark application with Amazing DX.

• construction
• construction consultancy
• operation and maintenance of building equipment
• repair of bicycles
• repair or maintenance of automobiles
• repair or maintenance of railway rolling stocks
• repair or maintenance of two-wheeled motor vehicles
• repair or maintenance of boilers
• repair or maintenance of electronic machines and apparatus
• repair or maintenance of electric lighting apparatus
• repair or maintenance of machines and apparatus for processing foods or beverages
• repair or maintenance of cultivating machines and implements
• repair or maintenance of plastic processing machines and apparatus
• repair or maintenance of mechanical parking systems
• repair or maintenance of bicycle parking apparatus
• repair or maintenance of vending machines
• furniture restoration
• umbrella repair
• repair or maintenance of musical instruments
• safe maintenance or repair
• shoe repair
• clock and watch repair or maintenance
• sharpening of scissors and kitchen knives
• setup or repair of locks
• repair or maintenance of cooking pots and pans
• repair or maintenance of signboards
• repair of bags or pouches
• repair of personal ornaments
• repair of toys or dolls
• repair of sports equipment
• repair or maintenance of bath fittings
• repair of toilet stool units with a washing water squirts
• repair of fishing tackle
• repair of spectacles
• laundering
• pressing of clothing
• clothing repair [mending clothing]
• window cleaning
• street cleaning
• vermin exterminating [other than for agriculture, aquaculture, horticulture and forestry]
• rental of laundry dryers
• rental of spin dryers for clothes
• rental of electric washing machines

The above “Main services in Class 37” is just an example.

Let’s take a look at what other services are included in Class 37 and what services are not.

When you want to designate the services like the following (services included in Class 37)

Services related to construction
→　When you want to designate such services in Amazing DX, please select the items that include the services.

For example, ……

Services relating to repair or maintenance
→　When you want to designate such services in Amazing DX, please select the items that include the services.

For example, ……

Other services

Goods and services not included in Class 37

Construction machines

• road building machines
• power shovels
• bulldozers
• cranes

All of the above is in [Class 7].

I see, so the classification changes for construction machines.

Yes, another classification must be designated for the sale of construction machines.

Other services not included in Class 37

• architectural design
• urban planning

Architectural design and urban planning are not in Class 37!

Let’s designate the services in Class 37 and file a trademark application!

Class 37 is for services in the field of construction, services relating to the repair and maintenance of various goods, etc. If you are in the construction industry or the repair and maintenance business, please consider Class 37 first.

Amazing DX allows you to easily designate goods and services online.

You can also easily search by designating more services at first, and then re-search by removing only those that are marked with “X” after the first-search.

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

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

Supervisor for the article:

HARAKENZO WORLD PATENT & TRADEMARK

東京法務戦略部長 石黒　智晴

advisor, attorney, Supervisor