Explanatory Note
Class 35 includes mainly services rendered by persons or organizations principally with the object of:
(1) help in the working or management of a commercial undertaking, or
(2) help in the management of the business affairs or commercial functions of an
industrial or commercial enterprise, as well as services rendered by advertising establishments primarily undertaking communications to the public, declarations
or announcements by all means of diffusion and concerning all kinds of goods or services.
This Class includes, in particular:
– the bringing together, for the benefit of others, of a variety of goods (excluding the
transport thereof), enabling customers to conveniently view and purchase those
goods; such services may be provided by retail stores, wholesale outlets, through
mail order catalogues or by means of electronic media, for example, through websites or television shopping programmes;
– services consisting of the registration, transcription, composition, compilation or
systematization of written communications and registrations, and also the
compilation of mathematical or statistical data;
– services of advertising agencies and services such as the distribution of
prospectuses, directly or through the post, or the distribution of samples. This Class
may refer to advertising in connection with other services, such as those concerning
bank loans or advertising by radio.
This Class does not include, in particular:
– services such as evaluations and reports of engineers which do not directly refer to
the working or management of affairs in a commercial or industrial enterprise
(consult the Alphabetical List of Services).