Trademark Class 23 Search India: Yarns and Threads

Trademark Class 23 - Overview

Trademark Class 23 includes yarns and threads. It takes into account all the types of yarns and threads, ensuring that specific protection for your brand under textiles and fabrics is provided.

Trademark Registration under Class 23 gives special trademark rights on your brand in the yarns and threads industry. This protects your specialty sewing threads from infringement, hence uniqueness in both domestic and international markets.

Class 23 of trademark protection can be very important for manufacturers and yarn and thread distributors. It automatically prevents competitors from your brand while enabling improvement on market presence and strength of your distinctive brand. Class 23 trademark registration provides protection renewable every 10 years, gives you continuous legal protection for all time, which means your brand will always remain protected,and recognised.

What is a Trademark Class 23?

Class 23 trademark covers yarns and threads intended for textile use. This class covers natural, synthetic, and blended fibers that are spun as threads or yarns for the manufacture of fabrics, garments, and other textile articles. It can extend to wool, silk, cotton, linen, polyester, and other fiber-based threads. Class 23 is a must for companies in the fashion, garment, and textile businesses, along with producers of knitting, embroidery, and sewing yarns.

Eligibility for Trademark Class 23

Trademark Class 23 covers industries and businesses that sell or develop yarns and threads for use with textiles. This class is crucial for any industry dealing with the creation, sale, or distribution of raw materials related to textiles. From weaving to knitting and sewing, Class 23 is key to trademark protection for thread and yarn products in many textile applications. You can register different types of trademark under this class. Here is a detailed outline of the same:

• These companies manufacture or sell natural, synthetic, or mixed yarns and threads for the purposes of weaving and knitting can register their trademark under Class 23
• Sewing threads meant for industrial as well as for personal use that are produced by a company, qualify for protection under this class
• Companies who specialise in producing yarns and threads as necessary raw materials can register their product under Class 23
• Businesses in fashion design, tailoring, and crafts that utilise specialty threads for creative purposes can register their products in this class
• Producers of synthetic fibers, mixed threads, or natural fibers used in textile production are eligible for trademark protection under Class 23.

What Cannot Be Registered Under Trademark Class 23

Class 23 strictly relates to yarns and threads to be used as textile. Anything not for this use or within any other classification will not fit the class. As per trademark class 23 description here are some of the key exclusions from Class 23:

• Threads for special purposes, like identification threads for electric wires, Class 9; surgical threads, Class 10; and threads of precious metals used in jewelry, Class 14 are not included in Class 23
• Non-textile threads are classified according to their material composition. For example, metal threads for binding are classified under Class 6, while non-metal threads are classified under Class 22. Elastic threads, rubber, or plastic threads are classified under Class 17, and fiberglass threads are classified under Class 21.

Related (Coordinated) Classes

Textile Class 23 deals with yarns and threads for use in textile manufacture. Though other trademark classes deal with related goods and industries, here is a list of the coordinated classes:

• Trademark Class 22: This class deals with raw textile fibres and materials such as ropes, cords and nets that are associated with textile manufacture.
• Trademark Class 24: This class deals with finished textile products like fabrics and curtains and bed sheets whose creation comes from yarns and threads of Class 23.
• Trademark Class 25: Incorporates clothing, footwear and headwear of textile and twine materials. The class captures the downstream product usage of Class 23 goods.
• Trademark Class 26: Includes haberdashery goods, like ribbons, buttons and ornamental threads to be used in the creation and fashion industry.
• Trademark Class 17: Accounts for semi-processed materials of synthetic origin including plastic fibers or filaments that may be applied in manufacturing special yarns.

Looking to Register Your Trademark Under Class 23?

Before filing your trademark registration, it’s necessary to identify the accurate trademark classes for your product or service. Our free Trademark Search tool helps you determine the appropriate class for your trademark registration process and check if the proposed trademark is already registered.