Class 12 of the Nice Classification

Class 12

Vehicles; apparatus for locomotion by land, air or water.

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Explanatory Note

Class 12 includes mainly vehicles and apparatus for the transport of people or goods by land, air or water.

This Class includes, in particular:
    • motors and engines for land vehicles;
    • couplings and transmission components for land vehicles;
    • air cushion vehicles;
    • remote control vehicles, other than toys;
    • parts of vehicles, for example, bumpers, windscreens, steering wheels;
    • treads for vehicles, as well as tyres for all kinds of vehicle wheels.
This Class does not include, in particular:
    • railway material of metal (Cl. 6);
    • motors, engines, couplings and transmission components, other than for land vehicles (Cl. 7);
    • parts of all kinds of motors and engines, for example, starters, mufflers and cylinders for motors and engines (Cl. 7);
    • rubber tracks being parts of crawlers on construction, mining, agricultural and other heavy-duty machines (Cl. 7);
    • tricycles for infants and scooters, being toys (Cl. 28);
    • certain special vehicles or wheeled apparatus not for transportation purposes, for example, self-propelled road sweeping machines (Cl. 7), fire engines (Cl. 9), tea carts (Cl. 20);
    • certain parts of vehicles, for example, electric batteries, mileage recorders and radios for vehicles (Cl. 9), lights for automobiles and bicycles (Cl. 11), automobile carpets (Cl. 27).
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