Floor mat falls in Class 27, rugs & flooring, and depending on what exactly you sell it can also fall in Class 19 or Class 9 or Class 6. Everything below is read from the USPTO's own list of accepted descriptions, not from an opinion about where it belongs.
Searching the USPTO Trademark ID Manual for floor mat returns 75 accepted descriptions, and most of them sit in Class 27. The manual is the list of identifications the office has already approved, so wording taken from it is pre-approved and settles the class at the same time.
The class follows from the identification you write, so "what class am I in" is really "what exactly do you sell". How the class system works covers the rest.
Rugs, carpets, wallpaper, or non-textile wall and floor coverings.
58 accepted descriptions in the manual mention floor mat. For example:
Non-metal building materials like lumber, stone, concrete, or glass.
9 accepted descriptions in the manual mention floor mat. For example:
Software, apps, downloadable content, computers, or electronic devices.
2 accepted descriptions in the manual mention floor mat. For example:
Common metals or metal building materials and hardware.
2 accepted descriptions in the manual mention floor mat. For example:
Floor mat appears in 4 classes because what you make, what it is made of and the service of selling it are separate classes. Pick the descriptions above that match what you actually do.
Making floor mat is Class 27; a shop or online store that sells it is retail store services (Class 35), and a business that does both files in both.
Rugs, carpets and wallpaper. Wall hangings split by material: non-textile wall hangings are here, textile ones are Class 24.
The class decides what a registration covers; it does not decide whether the name is available. Relatedness is judged on the identifications, so a conflict can sit in a class you never looked at: the same name in a different industry.
Check whether your name is clear for floor mat Searches the live USPTO register, including sound-alike and meaning-alike names. First search $2, then $5.Floor mat sits in Class 27, rugs & flooring. That is where the USPTO's own ID Manual puts it: 58 accepted descriptions mentioning floor mat fall in Class 27. Depending on exactly what you sell it can also fall in Class 19 or Class 9 or Class 6.
You file in every class you actually use the mark in, and the USPTO charges its fee per class. Selling a product and also running an online store for it is two classes, not one. Filing in classes you do not use is worse than filing in too few: an application has to be supported by real use or a genuine intent to use.
No. The class decides what a registration covers. Availability turns on whether someone already holds a similar mark for related goods, and relatedness is judged on what the identifications say rather than on the class number, so marks in different classes can still conflict.
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