Trademark Class 8

A comprehensive guide to Class 8 of the Trademark Filing Classification. Trademarks must be applied or registered under correct trademark group and each class represents a distinct class of goods or services. In this post, we comprehensively cover the goods which fall under Class 8 of trademark classification.

Trademark Class 8: Hand Tools and Implements

Trademark Class 8 pertains to hand tools and implements (hand-operated); cutlery; side arms; razors.

• Cutlery of precious metals;
• Electric razors and clippers (hand instruments).

Therefore, Trademark Class 8 includes mainly hand-operated implements used as tools in the respective professions.

The following goods must NOT be classified under Class 8:

• Certain special instruments;
• Machine tools and implements driven by a motor;
• Surgical cutlery;
• Side arms being firearms;
• Paper knives;
• Fencing weapons.

Comprehensive list of goods classified under Trademark Class 8

• abrading instruments [hand instruments]
• adzes [tools]
• agricultural implements, hand-operated
• air pumps, hand-operated
• annular screw plates
• augers [hand tools]
• awls
• axes
• metal band stretchers [hand tools]
• bayonets
• beard clippers
• bench vices [hand implements]
• bill-hooks
• bits [parts of hand tools]
• bits [hand tools]
• blade sharpening instruments
• blades for planes
• blades [hand tools]
• blades [weapons]
• border shears
• borers
• bow saws
• braiders [hand tools]
• branding irons
• breast drills
• budding knives
• can openers, non-electric / tin openers, non-electric
• carpenters’ augers
• cattle shearers
• caulking irons
• non-electric caulking guns
• centre punches [hand tools]
• ceramic knives
• cheese slicers, non-electric
• chisels
• choppers [knives]
• clamps for carpenters or coopers
• cleavers
• crimping irons
• crow bars
• curling tongs
• cuticle tweezers / cuticle nippers
• cutlery
• cutter bars [hand tools]
• cutters
• cutting tools [hand tools]
• daggers
• implements for decanting liquids [hand tools]
• depilation appliances, electric and non-electric
• apparatus for destroying plant parasites, hand-operated
• dies [hand tools] / screw stocks [hand tools] / screw-thread cutters [hand tools]
• diggers [hand tools]
• ditchers [hand tools]
• drawing knives
• drill holders [hand tools]
• drills
• ear-piercing apparatus
• earth rammers [hand tools]
• edge tools [hand tools]
• egg slicers, non-electric
• embossers [hand tools]
• emery grinding wheels
• emery files
• engraving needles
• expanders [hand tools]
• extension pieces for braces for screw taps
• eyelash curlers
• farriers’ knives
• files [tools]
• fingernail polishers, electric or non-electric / nail buffers, electric or non-electric
• fire irons
• fireplace bellows [hand tools]
• fish tapes [hand tools] / draw wires [hand tools]
• flat irons
• forks
• foundry ladles [hand tools]
• frames for handsaws
• fruit pickers [hand tools]
• fullers [hand tools]
• fulling tools [hand tools]
• garden tools, hand-operated
• gimlets [hand tools]
• glaziers’ diamonds [parts of hand tools]
• goffering irons
• gouges [hand tools]
• grafting tools [hand tools]
• graving tools [hand tools]
• grindstones [hand tools] / sharpening wheels [hand tools]
• guns [hand tools]
• guns, hand-operated, for the extrusion of mastics
• hackles [hand tools]
• hainault scythes
• hair clippers for personal use, electric and non-electric
• hair clippers for animals [hand instruments]
• hair-removing tweezers
• hammers [hand tools]
• hand drills [hand tools]
• hand tools, hand-operated
• hand implements for hair curling
• hand pumps
• harpoons
• harpoons for fishing
• hatchets
• hobby knives [scalpels]
• hoes [hand tools]
• holing axes / mortise axes
• hollowing bits [parts of hand tools]
• hoop cutters [hand tools]
• hunting knives
• ice picks
• insecticide vaporizers [hand tools] / insecticide atomizers [hand tools] / insecticide sprayers [hand tools]
• irons [non-electric hand tools]
• jig-saws
• knives
• ladles [hand tools]
• ladles for wine
• lasts [shoemakers’ hand tools]
• lawn clippers [hand instruments]
• leather strops
• levers
• lifting jacks, hand-operated
• livestock marking tools / cattle marking tools
• machetes
• mallets [hand instruments]
• manicure sets
• manicure sets, electric
• marline spikes
• masons’ hammers
• mattocks
• milling cutters [hand tools]
• mincing knives [hand tools] / fleshing knives [hand tools] / meat choppers [hand tools]
• mitre [miter (Am.)] boxes [hand tools]
• money scoops
• mortars for pounding
• mortise chisels
• moulding irons / molding irons
• nail extractors
• nail drawers [hand tools]
• nail punches
• nail nippers
• nail files
• nail files, electric
• nail clippers, electric or non-electric
• needle files
• needle-threaders
• numbering punches
• nutcrackers
• oyster openers
• palette knives
• paring irons [hand tools]
• paring knives
• pedicure sets
• penknives
• perforating tools [hand tools]
• pickaxes
• pickhammers / bushhammers
• picks [hand tools]
• pin punches
• pincers / nippers / tongs
• pizza cutters, non-electric
• plane irons
• planes
• pliers
• polishing irons [glazing tools] / glazing irons
• priming irons [hand tools]
• pruning scissors / secateurs
• pruning shears
• pruning knives
• punch rings [knuckle dusters] / knuckle dusters
• punch pliers [hand tools]
• punches [hand tools]
• instruments for punching tickets
• rabbeting planes
• rakes [hand tools]
• rammers [hand tools] / pestles for pounding
• rams [hand tools]
• rasps [hand tools]
• ratchets [hand tools]
• razor strops
• razor cases
• razor blades
• razors, electric or non-electric
• reamer sockets
• reamers
• riveters [hand tools]
• riveting hammers [hand tools]
• sabres
• sand trap rakes
• saw blades [parts of hand tools]
• saw holders
• saws [hand tools]
• scaling knives
• scissors
• scrapers [hand tools]
• scraping tools [hand tools]
• screwdrivers
• scythe rings
• scythe stones / whetstones
• scythes
• sharpening stones
• sharpening steels / knife steels
• sharpening instruments
• shaving cases
• shear blades
• shearers [hand instruments]
• shears
• shovels [hand tools]
• sickles
• side arms, other than firearms
• silver plate [knives, forks and spoons]
• instruments and tools for skinning animals
• sledgehammers
• spades [hand tools]
• spanners [hand tools] / wrenches [hand tools]
• spatulas [hand tools]
• spoons
• squares [hand tools]
• stamping-out tools [hand tools] / stamps [hand tools]
• stone hammers
• stropping instruments
• sugar tongs
• sword scabbards
• swords
• syringes for spraying insecticides
• table cutlery [knives, forks and spoons] / tableware [knives, forks and spoons]
• table forks
• tap wrenches
• taps [hand tools]
• apparatus for tattooing
• thistle extirpators [hand tools]
• tool belts [holders]
• tree pruners
• trowels [gardening]
• trowels
• truncheons / bludgeons / police batons
• tube cutters [hand tools]
• tube cutting instruments
• tweezers
• vegetable slicers / vegetable knives / vegetable shredders
• vegetable choppers
• vices
• weeding forks [hand tools]
• whetstone holders
• wick trimmers [scissors]
• wire strippers [hand tools]
• metal wire stretchers [hand tools]