Shelving falls in Class 20, furniture, and depending on what exactly you sell it can also fall in Class 11 or Class 16 or Class 28. 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 shelving returns 30 accepted descriptions, and most of them sit in Class 20. 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.
Furniture, mattresses, mirrors, or picture frames.
23 accepted descriptions in the manual mention shelving. For example:
Lighting, heating, cooling, cooking, or plumbing equipment.
2 accepted descriptions in the manual mention shelving. For example:
Paper products, printed materials, books, or office and art supplies.
2 accepted descriptions in the manual mention shelving. For example:
Toys, games, or sporting and exercise equipment.
1 accepted description in the manual mention shelving. For example:
Shelving 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 shelving is Class 20; a shop or online store that sells it is retail store services (Class 35), and a business that does both files in both.
Furniture, mirrors and frames. This class runs on what the thing is rather than what it is made of, which is why metal furniture is here while metal pipes are Class 6.
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 shelving Searches the live USPTO register, including sound-alike and meaning-alike names. First search $2, then $5.Shelving sits in Class 20, furniture. That is where the USPTO's own ID Manual puts it: 23 accepted descriptions mentioning shelving fall in Class 20. Depending on exactly what you sell it can also fall in Class 11 or Class 16 or Class 28.
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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