Trademark Class 8: Hand Tools and Cutlery
Last updated: 20 June 2025
Trademark Class 8 covers hand-operated tools, cutlery, razors, and blades used for cutting, shaping, and various manual operations. This class protects brands in the tools and cutlery manufacturing industries.
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Trademark Class 8 includes a wide range of manual implements used in construction, agriculture, gardening, and food preparation. This class covers cutting, piercing, and striking tools operated by hand without power assistance.
It includes knives, scissors, razors, axes, and various specialized hand tools. Registering under Class 8 helps secure exclusive rights for businesses involved in producing or distributing these essential manual tools, ensuring brand protection in these competitive markets. For more details, visit the official website of Intellectual Property India.
Key Categories Under Class 8
- Cutlery: Knives, forks, spoons, and other eating utensils
- Hand Tools: Manual implements for construction and repair
- Blades: Razors, scissors, and other sharp instruments
- Garden Tools: Manual implements for gardening and agriculture
- Personal Care Tools: Razors, nail clippers, and grooming implements
- Specialized Tools: Trade-specific manual implements
Goods Classified Under Class 8
Abrading instruments [hand instruments]
Adzes [tools]
Agricultural implements, hand-operated
Air pumps, hand-operated
Annular screw plates
Augers [hand tools]
Awls
Axes
Metal band stretchers [hand tools]
Bayonets
Beard clippers
Bench vices [hand implements]
Bill-hooks
Bits [parts of hand tools]
Bits [hand tools]
Blade sharpening instruments
Blades for planes
Blades [hand tools]
Blades [weapons]
Border shears
Borers
Bow saws
Braiders [hand tools]
Branding irons
Breast drills
Budding knives
Can openers, non-electric / tin openers, non-electric
Carpenters' augers
Cattle shearers
Caulking irons
Non-electric caulking guns
Centre punches [hand tools]
Ceramic knives
Cheese slicers, non-electric
Chisels
Choppers [knives]
Clamps for carpenters or coopers
Cleavers
Crimping irons
Crow bars
Curling tongs
Cuticle tweezers / cuticle nippers
Cutlery
Cutter bars [hand tools]
Cutters
Cutting tools [hand tools]
Daggers
Implements for decanting liquids [hand tools]
Depilation appliances, electric and non-electric
Apparatus for destroying plant parasites, hand-operated
Dies [hand tools] / screw stocks [hand tools] / screw-thread cutters [hand
tools]
Diggers [hand tools]
Ditchers [hand tools]
Drawing knives
Drill holders [hand tools]
Drills
Ear-piercing apparatus
Earth rammers [hand tools]
Edge tools [hand tools]
Egg slicers, non-electric
Embossers [hand tools]
Emery grinding wheels
Emery files
Engraving needles
Expanders [hand tools]
Extension pieces for braces for screw taps
Eyelash curlers
Farriers' knives
Files [tools]
Fingernail polishers, electric or non-electric / nail buffers, electric or
non-electric
Fire irons
Fireplace bellows [hand tools]
Fish tapes [hand tools] / draw wires [hand tools]
Flat irons
Forks
Foundry ladles [hand tools]
Frames for handsaws
Fruit pickers [hand tools]
Fullers [hand tools]
Fulling tools [hand tools]
Garden tools, hand-operated
Gimlets [hand tools]
Glaziers' diamonds [parts of hand tools]
Goffering irons
Gouges [hand tools]
Grafting tools [hand tools]
Graving tools [hand tools]
Grindstones [hand tools] / sharpening wheels [hand tools]
Guns [hand tools]
Guns, hand-operated, for the extrusion of mastics
Hackles [hand tools]
Hainault scythes
Hair clippers for personal use, electric and non-electric
Hair clippers for animals [hand instruments]
Hair-removing tweezers
Hammers [hand tools]
Hand drills [hand tools]
Hand tools, hand-operated
Hand implements for hair curling
Hand pumps
Harpoons
Harpoons for fishing
Hatchets
Hobby knives [scalpels]
Hoes [hand tools]
Holing axes / mortise axes
Hollowing bits [parts of hand tools]
Hoop cutters [hand tools]
Hunting knives
Ice picks
Insecticide vaporizers [hand tools] / insecticide atomizers [hand tools] /
insecticide sprayers [hand tools]
Irons [non-electric hand tools]
Jig-saws
Knives
Ladles [hand tools]
Ladles for wine
Lasts [shoemakers' hand tools]
Lawn clippers [hand instruments]
Leather strops
Levers
Lifting jacks, hand-operated
Livestock marking tools / cattle marking tools
Machetes
Mallets [hand instruments]
Manicure sets
Manicure sets, electric
Marline spikes
Masons' hammers
Mattocks
Milling cutters [hand tools]
Mincing knives [hand tools] / fleshing knives [hand tools] / meat choppers
[hand tools]
Mitre [miter (Am.)] boxes [hand tools]
Money scoops
Mortars for pounding
Mortise chisels
Moulding irons / molding irons
Nail extractors
Nail drawers [hand tools]
Nail punches
Nail nippers
Nail files
Nail files, electric
Nail clippers, electric or non-electric
Needle files
Needle-threaders
Numbering punches
Nutcrackers
Oyster openers
Palette knives
Paring irons [hand tools]
Paring knives
Pedicure sets
Penknives
Perforating tools [hand tools]
Pickaxes
Pickhammers / bushhammers
Picks [hand tools]
Pin punches
Pincers / nippers / tongs
Pizza cutters, non-electric
Plane irons
Planes
Pliers
Polishing irons [glazing tools] / glazing irons
Priming irons [hand tools]
Pruning scissors / secateurs
Pruning shears
Pruning knives
Punch rings [knuckle dusters] / knuckle dusters
Punch pliers [hand tools]
Punches [hand tools]
Instruments for punching tickets
Rabbeting planes
Rakes [hand tools]
Rammers [hand tools] / pestles for pounding
Rams [hand tools]
Rasps [hand tools]
Ratchets [hand tools]
Razor strops
Razor cases
Razor blades
Razors, electric or non-electric
Reamer sockets
Reamers
Riveters [hand tools]
Riveting hammers [hand tools]
Sabres
Sand trap rakes
Saw blades [parts of hand tools]
Saw holders
Saws [hand tools]
Scaling knives
Scissors
Scrapers [hand tools]
Scraping tools [hand tools]
Screwdrivers
Scythe rings
Scythe stones / whetstones
Scythes
Sharpening stones
Sharpening steels / knife steels
Sharpening instruments
Shaving cases
Shear blades
Shearers [hand instruments]
Shears
Shovels [hand tools]
Sickles
Side arms, other than firearms
Silver plate [knives, forks and spoons]
Instruments and tools for skinning animals
Sledgehammers
Spades [hand tools]
Spanners [hand tools] / wrenches [hand tools]
Spatulas [hand tools]
Spoons
Squares [hand tools]
Stamping-out tools [hand tools] / stamps [hand tools]
Stone hammers
Stropping instruments
Sugar tongs
Sword scabbards
Swords
Syringes for spraying insecticides
Table cutlery [knives, forks and spoons] / tableware [knives, forks and
spoons]
Table forks
Tap wrenches
Taps [hand tools]
Apparatus for tattooing
Thistle extirpators [hand tools]
Tool belts [holders]
Tree pruners
Trowels [gardening]
Trowels
Truncheons / bludgeons / police batons
Tube cutters [hand tools]
Tube cutting instruments
Tweezers
Vegetable slicers / vegetable knives / vegetable shredders
Vegetable choppers
Vices
Weeding forks [hand tools]
Whetstone holders
Wick trimmers [scissors]
Wire strippers [hand tools]
Metal wire stretchers [hand tools]
Goods Not Classified Under Class 8
Power-operated tools (Class 7)
Surgical cutlery (Class 10)
Firearms (Class 13)
Precious metal cutlery (Class 14)
Kitchen utensils (non-cutting) (Class 21)
Toys in the form of tools (Class 28)
Agricultural machines (Class 7)
Electric shavers (Class 9)
Electric hair clippers (Class 9)
Electric nail care devices (Class 9)
Machine tools (Class 7)
Cutting machines (Class 7)
Industrial cutting blades (Class 7)
Dental instruments (Class 10)
Medical scalpels (Class 10)
Electric curling irons (Class 9)
Electric flat irons (Class 9)
Electric hair styling tools (Class 9)
Electric kitchen appliances (Class 11)
Electric can openers (Class 7)
Electric food processors (Class 7)
Electric meat grinders (Class 7)
Electric hedge trimmers (Class 7)
Electric lawn mowers (Class 7)
Electric chainsaws (Class 7)
Electric drills (Class 7)
Electric sanders (Class 7)
Electric saws (Class 7)
Electric screwdrivers (Class 7)
Electric welding apparatus (Class 7)
Electric engraving tools (Class 7)
Electric polishers (Class 7)
Electric grinding machines (Class 7)
Electric planers (Class 7)
Electric routers (Class 7)
Intellectual Properties You Should Trademark Under Class 8
- Brand Names: The names of your tool or cutlery product lines
- Logos: Distinctive symbols representing your hand tools business
- Slogans: Catchphrases associated with your cutting implements
- Product Designs: Unique tool designs with brand recognition
- Packaging Designs: Distinctive packaging for hand tools
- Service Marks: For companies providing sharpening or tool repair services
- Trade Dress: The overall visual appearance of your tool packaging
Why Register Under Class 8
- Exclusive Rights: Gain legal protection for your hand tools and prevent competitors from using similar marks in this competitive market.
- Brand Recognition: Establish your brand identity in the tools and cutlery industry with a registered trademark.
- Market Expansion: Protection facilitates expansion into new markets with established brand recognition in manual tools.
- Legal Protection: Ability to take legal action against counterfeit tools and cutlery products.
- Asset Value: Trademarks can appreciate in value and become important business assets in the tools sector.
- 10-Year Protection: Initial registration lasts 10 years and can be renewed indefinitely.
- Begin your trademark registration process with TMZON — take the first step toward protecting your tools brand.
Registration Process
- Before registering under Class 8, make sure your brand name is available. Use our free Trademark Search tool to check availability and view relevant trademark information.
- Trademark Search: Conduct a comprehensive search to ensure your mark is available in the hand tools category.
- Application Preparation: Gather all necessary information and documentation specific to manual tools.
- Filing: Submit your application with the appropriate trademark office.
- Examination: The trademark office reviews your application for compliance.
- Publication: Your mark is published for opposition by third parties.
- Registration: If no opposition, your trademark is registered and protected.
- Maintenance: File periodic renewals to maintain your trademark rights in the tools market.
Why Choose TMZON
- Tool Industry Expertise: Specialized knowledge in hand tools and cutlery trademarks.
- Comprehensive Searches: Thorough clearance searches to minimize rejection risks in the tools market.
- Streamlined Process: Efficient handling of all paperwork and filings for your tools business.
- Global Protection: Assistance with international trademark registration for tool brands.
- Ongoing Support: Monitoring and enforcement services post-registration.
- Cost-Effective: Competitive pricing with transparent fee structures for manufacturers.