Trademark Class 10 relates to medical and healthcare equipment. It covers a wide range of medical, surgical, dental, and veterinary instruments used by professionals in clinics, hospitals, and diagnostic centres. This class also includes artificial limbs, eyes, and teeth, orthopedic supports, prosthetic devices, and therapeutic tools used for treatment or rehabilitation. Items such as medical implants, surgical sutures, compression garments, orthopedic footwear, and special clothing used for medical purposes also fall under this category. Even commonly used products like menstrual care items, contraception devices, infant nursing equipment, massage apparatus, and hospital furniture—such as examination tables and medical chairs—are classified under Class 10.
Businesses and individuals dealing in medical equipment, implants, prosthetics, surgical tools, diagnostic instruments, or healthcare-related apparatus should register their trademarks under Class 10. This includes manufacturers, suppliers, importers, wholesalers, retailers, online medical device sellers, and companies developing innovative medical technologies. Registering a trademark in this class ensures that your brand is legally protected in connection with medical and therapeutic products you manufacture or supply.
Class 10 is especially relevant for medical device companies, orthopedic solution providers, dental and surgical equipment brands, prosthetic makers, maternity care product manufacturers, and any business operating within the healthcare products sector. If your business revolves around medical, therapeutic, or rehabilitation devices, then Trademark Class 10 is the appropriate category to secure your brand identity and prevent misuse by competitors.
Description For Trademark Class 10
Surgical, medical, dental and veterinary apparatus and instruments; artificial limbs, eyes and teeth; orthopaedic articles; suture materials; therapeutic and assistive devices adapted for persons with disabilities; massage apparatus; apparatus, devices and articles for nursing infants; sexual activity apparatus, devices and articles.
This Class includes, in particular:
- support bandages, orthopaedic bandages;
- special clothing for medical purposes, for example, compression garments, stockings for varices, strait jackets, orthopaedic footwear;
- articles, instruments and devices for menstruation, contraception and childbirth, for example, menstrual cups, pessaries, condoms, childbirth mattresses, forceps;
- therapeutic and prosthetic articles and devices for implantation made of artificial or synthetic materials, for example, surgical implants comprised of artificial materials, artificial breasts, brain pacemakers, biodegradable bone fixation implants;
- furniture especially made for medical purposes, for example, armchairs for medical or dental purposes, air mattresses for medical purposes, operating tables.
This Class does not include, in particular:
- medical dressings and absorbent sanitary articles, for example, plasters, bandages and gauze for dressings, breast-nursing pads, diapers for babies and for incontinence, tampons (Cl. 5);
- surgical implants comprised of living tissue (Cl. 5);
- tobacco-free cigarettes for medical purposes (Cl. 5) and electronic cigarettes (Cl. 34);
- wheelchairs and mobility scooters (Cl. 12);
- massage tables (Cl. 20).
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