Registering your trademark under the right class/classes is the most important step in the process and it is a key component to your trademark protection strategy.
The Nice Classification is an international classification of goods and services applied for the registration of marks. It provides 45 classes in which you can file an application. Classes 1 to 34 are relating to products, whereas classes 35 to 45 to services.
The number of classes will depend on your interests and budget. Strategically, some large companies file the trademark in many classes to prevent literally everyone from filing the same name under a different category. However, this is not always a success, since they may need to show proof of use and if they cannot do it as a specific class is not their interest, they risk the loss of the one class.
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