Class 16

Paper and cardboard; printed matter; bookbinding material; photographs; stationery and office requisites, except furniture; adhesives for stationery or household purposes; drawing materials and materials for artists; paintbrushes; instructional and teaching materials; plastic sheets, films and bags for wrapping and packaging; printers' type, printing blocks.

Explanatory Note

Class 16 includes mainly paper, cardboard and certain goods made of those materials, as well as office requisites.

This Class includes, in particular:


- paper knives and, paper cutters;
- cases, covers and devices for holding or securing paper, for example, document files, money clips, holders for cheque books, paper-clips, passport holders, scrapbooks;
- certain office machines, for example, typewriters, duplicators, franking machines for office use, pencil sharpeners;
- painting articles for use by artists and interior and exterior painters, for example, artists' watercolour saucers, painters' easels and palettes, paint rollers and trays;
- certain disposable paper products, for example, bibs, handkerchiefs and table linen of paper;
- certain goods made of paper or cardboard not otherwise classified by function or purpose, for example, paper bags, envelopes and containers for packaging, statues, figurines and works of art of paper or cardboard, such as figurines of papier mâché, framed or unframed lithographs, paintings and watercolours.

This Class does not include, in particular:


- paints (Cl. 2);
- hand tools for artists, for example, spatulas, sculptors' chisels (Cl. 8);
- teaching apparatus, for example, audiovisual teaching apparatus, resuscitation mannequins (Cl. 9), and toy models (Cl. 28);
- certain goods made of paper or cardboard that are classified according to their function or purpose, for example, photographic paper (Cl. 1), abrasive paper (Cl. 3), indoor window blinds of paper blinds (Cl. 20), table plates and cups and plates of paper (Cl. 21), bed linencovers of paper (Cl. 24), paper clothing (Cl. 25), cigarette paper (Cl. 34);
- paints (Cl. 2);
- hand tools for artists, for example, spatulas, sculptors' chisels (Cl. 8);
- teaching apparatus, for example, audiovisual teaching apparatus, resuscitation mannequins (Cl. 9), toy models (Cl. 28).

Language	Modification	Basic No.	Indications
en	change	160027	printed arithmetical tables printed calculating tables
en	change	160071	teaching materials [, except apparatus]
en	deletion	160151	drawing sets
en	deletion	160178	printing sets, portable [office requisites]
en	change	160225	Unchanged
en	change	160242	Unchanged
en	deletion	160264	gluten [glue] for stationery or household purposes
en	deletion	160302	writing cases [sets]
en	change	160371	Unchanged
en	addition	160412	craft chenille stems

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Class 16

Explanatory Note