Trademark Class 29: Meats and processed foods
Meat, fish, poultry, preserved fruits and vegetables, eggs, milk and edible oils.
What class 29 covers
Class 29 is one of the 45 international classes used by the USPTO and most trademark offices worldwide, under the Nice Classification. Classes 1 to 34 cover goods — physical products — and classes 35 to 45 cover services. Class 29 is a goods class.
You register a mark for particular goods or services, not in the abstract. That is why the same word can be owned by unrelated businesses in different classes, and why picking the right class matters as much as picking the right name.
Typically included in class 29
- Meat, poultry and fish
- Preserved and processed fruit and vegetables
- Dairy products and eggs
- Edible oils and fats
- Nuts and nut butters
- Soups and prepared meals
- Jams and jellies
Business types that usually file here
- Meat processors
- Dairy companies
- Snack food makers
- Plant-based protein brands
- Specialty food producers
- Meal kit companies
Notable brands operating in class 29
Companies whose goods or services fall wholly or partly within this class. This is a list of well-known names in the space, not a ranking — there is no authoritative public measure of trademark "size", and most of these businesses hold registrations across several classes rather than this one alone.
- Tyson Foods
- Hormel
- Kraft Heinz
- Conagra
- Smithfield
- JBS
- Perdue Farms
- Danone
- Chobani
- Lactalis
- Land O'Lakes
- Dole
- Del Monte
- Campbell's
- Bumble Bee
- StarKist
- Beyond Meat
- Impossible Foods
- Cal-Maine Foods
- Sargento
- Tillamook
- Blue Diamond
- Planters
- Jif
- Skippy
Choosing the right class
Three mistakes cost applicants the most in this area:
- Filing in too few classes. If you sell a product and also provide a service around it, that is often two classes. Registering only one leaves the other unprotected.
- Filing in too many. Each class costs a separate fee, and the USPTO expects you to be using the mark, or to have a genuine intent to use it, for everything you list.
- Ignoring related classes. Examiners routinely treat certain classes as related — clothing and clothing retail, for instance, or food products and restaurant services. A conflict in a related class can block you just as effectively as one in your own.
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