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all right so trade weren't classes trademarks IDs trademark codes I've gotten so many messages from you guys saying Jelena like what are you talking about so in today's video we're going over trademark classes let's get into it hey hey guys thank you so much for clicking on the video if you're new here my name is Jolene dual-career you can call me Jill D and on this channel we talk about cannabis business and entrepreneurship from a legal perspective and today guys we're getting into something I think has been unnecessarily confused by me I'm guilty and that is trademark glasses so in some of my previous videos I talked about this thing called a trademark code or a trademark ID I want to go ahead and explain this so your trademark the trademark code was just a phrase that I used to sort of make it easier to understand instead of getting into this lengthy discussion about trademark classes and I also referred to something called trademark IDs which is a column in the search results when you use the patent and trademark office database and search tool it's something that's on the left and refers to a type of ID that the US Patent and Trademark Office assigns a particular registration I am so sorry that this was a point of confusion for you guys so I want to go ahead and clarify exactly what you're going to be looking for when you do your application and make sure that you have your classes correct okay don't forget to subscribe guys there is a link at the bottom of this video and there's a link right above the description box that you can click that will automatically subscribe you it supports my channel and it also notifies you whenever I post new and actionable content on my channel there's lots of great legal tips and tricks and advice that I give so if you want to know about this stuff you have to subscribe okay also shout-out to my viewer of the week thank you so much for your comments and your feedback and truly truly appreciate it so to start of our discussion on today's topic let's dive into what all of this means so in trademark legal land there are a bunch of broad general overarching class is under which your goods and services can fall for trademark purposes so I don't want to give you guys like a boring history lesson on trademark law and how trademark develops in the United States I mean there's a ton of other lawyers and legal channels on YouTube that you can go and watch that kind of boring stuff like no shade but just like as a really quick kind of like background a lot of countries had their own systems for registering and recognizing trademarks and some still do not all of them have the same Universal like classification process but as the world became more of a global economy there was a need for a more centralized classification system so that kind of birth the nice agreement and that's how we came up with these trademark classes well not me but you know the countries so under the nice agreement there are 45 classes under which you can file a trademark for your goods and services some of these classes are for goods some of these classes are specifically for services so it's important to go through these classes and understand which one you are generally going to fall under for your goods and services keeping in mind that you may have some overlap you may fall into more than one class I think where it gets tricky here is if you've never really done a trademark application before you're not familiar with the process and I think this is where I slipped up with you guys and kind of confuse things is in addition to finding your class you have to also include a specific description of your goods and services on your application that ties in with that class okay I'm gonna get into it don't worry you cannot just go and file a trademark application citing to your overarching class because that's not sufficient enough for the US Patent and Trademark Office to register you're more they need a little bit more of a explanation as to what your mark your logo your slogan your your main brand name whatever it is that you're trademarking they need a little bit more of an explanation as to how it's being used so so once you have an idea of what your class or classes are you can go in and run a search on the US Patent and Trademark Office website there is a database there where you can start looking up the different descriptions that have been you under that class let me go in and give you an example all right so let's take a look at an example all right so hopefully this will help so I'm on the USPTO website okay and if you go on to the home page and go over to trademarks you'll see a place where you can access tests which is the trademark database for the United States Patent and Trademark Office it includes all of the live and dead trademarks in the country so if we want to just do a quick search on you know just like a more popular name let's do Fenty which is Rihanna's brand and what comes up is we've got 62 records here on this page well 62 records in total but we can take a look and we can pick one and see what exactly here's a good one Fenty beauty by Rihanna alright so you could see this is a good example so she's just trademarked the name and you could see that her class has fallen in class three so this is the International class three or international code I always say code it's its class so you can see that although she has her class she's also included a description of exactly what is going to be covered by this trademark so she's got makeup cosmetics cosmetics kits comprised of makeup lipstick lip gloss eyes shadow etc etc so that's basically the concept if we pick another one let's go all right we've got this one lavender by Fenty okay this one is in the class 25 okay and here it's clothing but it's bandanas belts bottoms caps coats dresses gloves hats headbands and the list goes on and she's able to give a more detailed description that goes along with her class so I hope that makes sense if you have any other questions about that and really like how to do the search I can also do another video on that so the important thing for you to understand is that you need to get your code your classifications correct your class and see in this one I'm not sure what this is I don't think I've ever seen this but you see here she's got several different classes and this is what I mean when I say that you can have some overlap and multiple classes for your goods and services so she's in class 9 here with sunglasses she's in class 14 with jewelry and then she's in class 18 for purses and at class 25 again for clothing so there are multiple classes here it also includes a little yeah this is a design a design a logo so yeah that's just the point that I'm trying to drive home here so that's the first important thing is to understand your class and then get into your description if you're at a point where you've already decided on what class you're gonna file under or classes you're gonna file under and you've done a search on US Patent and Trademark Office website or descriptions that you can use to describe your goods or services you haven't like found the right description that like adequately describes your goods or services don't freak out about that there's a different type of application that you can file on you're going to have to come up with your own description so at that juncture I would recommend that you get an attorney involved just so they can make sure that your description is adequate to describe your goods or services and they will go ahead and submit the application for you I don't think you should really tackle that part yourself but I mean you can do whatever you want but I'm just saying I just want to make sure that you're going down the right path with this I know the can be a little bit confusing so I just want to make sure that you guys are not wasting your time and wasting your money and getting things wrong because USPTO will come back and they'll be like guards guard out of here with the nonsense something that I want you guys to keep in mind is there are limitations on what your trademark registrations can protect so this is not something that's gonna give you like a universal protection of your name or slogan or whatever for every single thing and every single use it just doesn't work that way you are limited to the classes that you have filed your trademark under and you're limited to the extent of your descriptions you're not going to be able to extend that trademark protection into classes that you have no registration in so I want you to keep that in mind also you cannot just register your trademark in classes where you actually don't have any products or services you're not going to get a valid trademark that way so I want you guys to keep that in mind as well alright so just a quick recap of what we went over today we talked about trademark classes that are available for you to register your goods and services under under u.s. trademark law there are a total of 45 classes under the NYSE agreement I refer to them as codes or IDs but moving forward I'm gonna refer to them as their actual names which are classes what I have been doing has been a little bit inconsistent and you know my mind works differently so we talked about selecting your appropriate trademark class keeping in mind that you might have overlap into multiple classes for your trademarks we also discuss how you should couple your trademark class with an appropriate and adequate description of your goods or services either one that's existing with the US Patent and Trademark Office already or one that your attorney will help you develop this is gonna help the USPTO attorneys understand clearly what your trademark is going to cover and finally we talked about the limitations of your trademark protection so guys I really hope that this cleared up some confusion for you guys again I apologize if I made anything a little bit like I don't know cuff a hold for you that really wasn't my intention so if you're confused about anything else feel free to leave a quick comment down below or shoot me a message and let me know I'm more than happy to discuss or put up a video for you guys guys don't forget to check out some of my other videos I've got some great business content for you as well as intellectual property content and if you're in the cannabis space or hemp space I've got some videos on that as well so they're linked here for you for your convenience don't forget to subscribe and I will see you on the next video have a good one