06

Goods/Nice Class 06

Common metals and their alloys, ores

Full official headingmetal materials for building and construction; transportable buildings of metal; non-electric cables and wires of common metal; small items of metal hardware; metal containers for storage or transport; safes.

Official English text from WIPO, Nice Classification, edition 11 (2022). WIPO class headings

Class 6 includes mainly unwrought and partly wrought common metals, including ores, as well as certain goods made of common metals.

3,785 trademarks in this class

Included in particular

  • metals in foil or powder form for further processing, for example, for 3D printers;
  • metal building materials, for example, materials of metal for railway tracks, pipes and tubes of metal;
  • small items of metal hardware, for example, bolts, screws, nails, furniture casters, window fasteners;
  • transportable buildings or structures of metal, for example, prefabricated houses, swimming pools, cages for wild animals, skating rinks;
  • certain goods made of common metals not otherwise classified by function or purpose, for example, all-purpose boxes of common metal, statues, busts and works of art of common metal.

Not included

  • metals and ores used as chemicals in industry or scientific research for their chemical properties, for example, bauxite, mercury, antimony, alkaline and alkaline-earth metals (Cl. 1);
  • metals in foil and powder form for use in painting, decorating, printing and art (Cl. 2);
  • electric cables (Cl. 9) and non-electric cables and ropes, not of metal (Cl. 22);
  • pipes being parts of sanitary installations (Cl. 11), flexible pipes, tubes and hoses, not of metal (Cl. 17) and rigid pipes, not of metal (Cl. 19);
  • cages for household pets (Cl. 21);
  • certain goods made of common metals that are classified according to their function or purpose, for example, hand tools, hand-operated (Cl. 8), paper clips (Cl. 16), furniture (Cl. 20), kitchen utensils (Cl. 21), household containers (Cl. 21).