Explanatory Note
Class 39 includes mainly services rendered in transporting people or goods from one
place to another (by rail, road, water, air or pipeline) and services necessarily connected with such transport, as well as services relating to the storing of goods in a warehouse or other building for their preservation or guarding.
This Class includes, in particular:
– services rendered by companies exploiting stations, bridges, rail-road ferries, etc.,
used by the transporter;
– services connected with the hiring of transport vehicles;
– services connected with maritime tugs, unloading, the functioning of ports and docks and the salvaging of wrecked ships and their cargoes;
– services connected with the packaging and parcelling of goods before dispatch;
– services consisting of information about journeys or the transport of goods by
brokers and tourist agencies, information relating to tariffs, timetables and methods
of transport;
– services relating to the inspection of vehicles or goods before transport.
This Class does not include, in particular:
– services relating to advertising transport undertakings such as the distribution of
prospectuses or advertising on the radio (Cl. 35);
– services relating to the issuing of travellers’ cheques or letters of credit by brokers or travel agents (Cl. 36);
– services relating to insurances (commercial, fire or life) during the transport of
persons or goods (Cl. 36);
– services rendered by the maintenance and repair of vehicles, nor the maintenance
or repair of objects connected with the transport of persons or goods (Cl. 37);
– services relating to reservation of rooms in a hotel by travel agents or brokers
(Cl. 43).