A trademark is any phrase, symbol, word, design, or amalgamation to identify your services or goods. The trademark is a recognisable mark to distinguish your company from your competitors in the marketplace. Trademark refers to both service marks and trademarks. A trademark distinguishes goods, while service marks do the same for services. There are different types of trademarks: device marks, word marks, colour marks, sound marks, shapes of goods and three dimension marks.
Identifying the class is necessary before filing any application for registering a company name under a class.
The class 38 trademark is the trademark filing classification in which each class represents a specific class of services or goods. This article will provide a comprehensive guide about class 38, telecommunications trademark, cable tv trademark registration, radio broadcast service trademark, telecommunication to class in India and many more.
What is Trademark Class 38?
Trademark class 38 deals with the services that enable a person to communicate with another through devices. These services include the ones which
- Allow a person to communicate with another,
- Share messages from one person to another,
- Help set up a person in visual or oral communication through television and radio with another person.
The services classified under trademark class 38 consist of the diffusion of television or radio programmes. However, telephone marketing or telemarketing and radio advertising services do not fall under trademark class 38.
Also Read: Guide on Business Services and Consulting in Trademark Class 35
Comprehensive Listing of Services Included in Class 38 Trademark
Here is a list of services that are classified under Class 38 Trademark:
- Consulting and advisory services related to wireless communications
- Consulting and advisory services related to types of equipment for wireless communications.
- Advisory services regarding telecommunications
- Audio and video broadcasting services available on the internet
- Aeronautical services via telecommunication
- Video and audio broadcasting services channelled via the internet
- Renting access time to global computer networks
- Audio broadcasting
- Providing access to databases
- Audio broadcasting services
- Cable television broadcasting
- Broadcasting of audio via the internet
- Audio streaming services
- Audio teleconferencing
- Communications by telephone
- Communications by telegrams
- Communications by cellular phones
- Video, audio and data transmission services via satellite, cable, computer networks, ISDN lines and telephone lines
- communications by computer terminals
- Video, audio and multimedia broadcasting through the internet and other communication services and networks
- communications by fibre or fibre optic networks
- Automated telecalling screening services
- computerised transmission of images and messages
- Mechanical voice message services via telephone
- electronic mail
- Automatic digital data transfer using telecommunication channels
- electronic bulletin board services
- Broadband radio communication services
- Broadcasting cable television programmes
- Broadcasting
- Transmission and broadcasting of cable tv programmes
- Information and broadcasting of pay-per-view tv programmes
- Broadcasting and transmitting radio programmes
- Broadcasting of multimedia and audiovisual content through the Internet
- Broadcasting of cable tv programmes
- Broadcasting of tv features and film
- Broadcasting of tv features or programmes and films, including on mobile networks, on the internet or any other media
- Broadcasting of tv programs and movies via video-on-demand services
- Broadcasting of multimedia or motion picture films via the internet
- Broadcasting of tv programmes which are pay-per-view
- Using a global computer network for broadcasting a programme
- Broadcasting programmes via the internet
- facsimile transmission
- Broadcasting teleshopping programmes
- Cable tv transmission
- Cable transmission of sounds, signals, images and data
- Cablecasting services
- Call diversion services
- Call barring services
- Call forwarding, recording, hunting and screening services
- Captioned telephone services for deaf or speech-impaired individuals
- Cell phone services
- Chatroom services for social networking
- Communication of data by email systems
- Communication through computer terminals by satellite or digital transmission
- Communication through IVR or interactive voice response
- Communication via VPN or virtual private networks
- Communication through optical fibre networks
- Communications by radio, satellite or computer terminals
- Computer network access services by a metro Ethernet
- Consultancy services regarding communications such as telecommunications, data communications, electronic communications etc.
- Data broadcasting services
- Data communication by e-mail
- Data transfer
- Data streaming
- rental of facsimile apparatus
- Data transmission services and reception services through telecommunication means
- Data transmission services in between networked computer system
- Datacasting services
- Data transmission through telecommunications and telematic networks
- Digital data transfer
- Digital data transmission of messages, services, messages, video and audio data
- Digital texting
- Email and messaging services, data services, forwarding services etc.
- Electronic bulletin board telecommunications services
- Electronic communication by chatrooms, internet forums and chat lines
- Electronic data interchange
- Electronic transmission of images, sound and other information and data
- Encrypted electric communication and delivered recovered data
- High bit-rate information transmission services for network operators
- Hosted PBX or Private Branch Exchange services
- Instant messaging services
- ISDN or Integrated Services Digital Network services
- Interactive transmission of video through digital networks
- information about telecommunication
- Internet and transmission of graphical data, audio, or video.
- Internet protocol and tv transmission services
- provide internet chatrooms
- message sending.
- Leasing access time to a global computer network, computer databases, databases server
- Leasing of apparatus and instruments of communication
- Leasing of tv and radio broadcasting types of equipment
- Leasing computer communication instruments and apparatus
- Leasing telecommunication facilities, lines, installations, equipment, booths, telephones etc.
- Line hunting services
- Long-distance telecommunications services
- Leasing of tv broadcasting, video conferencing equipment and facilities
- rental of message-sending apparatus
- Message sending services
- Mobile communication services
- rental of modems
- Mobile media services, such as the electric transmission of media content
- news agencies/ wire service
- Multimedia messaging services
- providing online forums
- Numeric messaging services
- paging services like telephone, radio, or other means of electronic communication
- Online document delivery services via global computer network
- Private Branch Exchange dialling services
- radio broadcasting
- Podcasting
- Prepaid local and long-distance telephone services
- radio communications
- Providing access to a chatroom, blog, bulletin board, discussion service and computer database
- Providing access to a mail, web, video sharing portal and news portal
- Providing multiple user access to propriety collection of information through global computer information networks to transfer and disseminate a wide range of data and information
- Providing access to telecommunications, electronic information and transaction platforms available on the internet
- Providing multi-user dial-up and access to the internet
- satellite transmission
- streaming of data
- Streaming of visual, audio and audiovisual material through a global computer networking services
- Subscription tv broadcasting
- rental of telecommunication equipment
- providing telecommunication channels for teleshopping services
- providing telecommunications connections to a global computer network
- Provision of access to databases via the internet
- Provision of access to websites, content and portals
- Radio and tv programs broadcasting
- telecommunications routing and junction services provided via internet portals and platforms and other media
- Telecommunication gateway services
- Telecommunication access services
- Telepresence conferencing services
- teleconferencing services
- telegraph services
- telephone services
- Telephone voice messaging
- rental of telephones
- television broadcasting
- telex services
- Teletext and interactive broadcasting
- teleprinting
- transmission of telegrams
- Ticker tape services
- transmission of greeting cards online
- Transfer of data via telecommunication or computer networks
- transmission of digital files
- Dissemination and transfer of data and information via computer networks or the internet
- providing user access to global computer networks
- Transfer of data via telecommunication, computer network, online services, electronic data or the internet.
- Video narrowcast services
- Video streaming movies and independent films via the internet
- videoconferencing services
- Video-on-demand transmission services through the internet
- voice mail services
- Voice over internet protocol services
- Dialling services activated by voice
- Webcasting services
- Wire service
- Wireless cell phone services
- Wireless digital messaging services
- wireless broadcasting
- Wireless electric transmission of facsimiles, images, data, information, voice signals etc
- Wireless, private branch exchange services
- Wireless data transfer via the internet, digital mobile photography, wireless application protocols etc.
Conclusion:
Hopefully, in this article, you have an idea about trademark class 38 or telecommunications trademark, which deals with cable tv trademark registration, radio broadcast service trademark, and other telecommunication trademark class in India.
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