Deciphering Class 38 of Nice classification for trademarks: 

Trademark Class 38 is one of 45 NICE classifications used to identify and classify products and/or services.

Class 38 for trademarks a brief description: 

Class 38 includes mainly services allowing at least one person to communicate with another by sensory means. Such services include those which:

• Allow one person to talk to another.

• Transmit messages from one person to another.

• Place a person in oral or visual communication with another (radio and television).

Class 38 for trademarks header: 

The Nice Class Headings describe in very broad terms the nature of the goods or services contained in each class. The Class 38 class header includes Telecommunications services.

Trademark Class 38 includes, in particular:

Services that consist essentially of the diffusion of radio or television programs. Communication services have become one of the most essential services in the past few years. Due to the rapid growth in technology and the internet, they provide users with all the necessary data and news all over the world. For me, this class is so important as it helps me remain up to date.

Class 38 trademark application Owners

• Amazon Technologies, Inc.

• Deutsche Telekom AG

• Alibaba Group Holding Limited 

• Apple Inc.

• Google LLC

• Koninklijke KPN N.V.

• Viacom International Inc.

• Sky International AG

• FOX News Media,

• The New York Times Company.

Trademark classes commonly confused with trademark class 38: 

Trademark Class 38 versus Trademark Class 35:

While Class 38 includes communication services as well as services for the broadcasting and transmission of data. Class 35 includes radio advertising and telephone marketing (telemarketing) services.

Understanding the main elements of Class 38: 

The EUIPO, in collaboration with WIPO, has developed a hierarchy of goods and services within a class to link the different products and to make the classification process easier. The hierarchy has no legal effect in trademark examination or the comparison of goods and services; it was only created as an assistive tool.

Class 38 in Nice Classification is divided into the subsections below:

Trademark Class 38 - Subsection 1 

• Broadcasting services:

• Cable television broadcasting.

• Wireless broadcasting.

Trademark Class 38 - Subsection 2

• Telephone and mobile telephone services;

• Communication by cellular phones.

Trademark Class 38 - Subsection 3

• Computer communication and internet access;

• Communications by fiber optic networks/communications by fiber-optic networks.

• Providing user access to global computer networks.