Trademark Class 5 is meant for products related to healthcare, medicine and hygiene for both humans and animals. If your business deals with pharmaceuticals, dietary supplements, disinfectants or any medicated or veterinary products, you’ll need to register your trademark under Class 5 to protect your brand legally.
This class includes a wide range of items such as medicated shampoos, baby food, plasters, insecticides, dietary beverages for medical use and sanitary products like diapers and dental wax. Even items like medicated soaps, lotions, herbicides, fungicides and meal replacements (specially made for medical or veterinary use) fall under this category.
In short, if your product is used for treatment, prevention or improvement of health or hygiene, Class 5 is likely the right trademark class for you. Choosing the correct class is critical because trademark protection only applies within the selected class.
Description For Trademark Class 5
Trademark Class 5: Pharmaceuticals, medical and veterinary preparations; sanitary preparations for medical purposes; dietetic food and substances adapted for medical or veterinary use, food for babies; dietary supplements for human beings and animals; plasters, materials for dressings; material for stopping teeth, dental wax; disinfectants; preparations for destroying vermin; fungicides, herbicides.
This Class includes, in particular:
- sanitary preparations for personal hygiene, other than toiletries;
- diapers for babies and for incontinence;
- deodorants, other than for human beings or for animals;
- medicated shampoos, soaps, lotions and dentifrices;
- dietary supplements intended to supplement a normal diet or to have health benefits;
- meal replacements and dietetic food and beverages adapted for medical or veterinary use.
This Class does not include, in particular:
- ingredients for use in the manufacture of pharmaceuticals, for example, vitamins, preservatives and antioxidants (Cl. 1);
- sanitary preparations being non-medicated toiletries (Cl. 3);
- deodorants for human beings or for animals (Cl. 3);
- support bandages, orthopaedic bandages (Cl. 10);
- meal replacements and dietetic food and beverages not specified as being for medical or veterinary use, which should be classified in the appropriate food or beverage classes, for example, low-fat potato crisps (Cl. 29), high-protein cereal bars (Cl. 30), isotonic beverages (Cl. 32).
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