What Class 42 of the Nice Classification covers, the businesses that file in it, and how to register your trademark in India.
Class 42 covers scientific and technology services, research and design, and — crucially — the design and development of software and hardware. If you build software for clients as a service, this is your class; a software product sold as goods is Class 9.
If your business is one of the following, Class 42 is likely to be one of the trademark classes you need:
Trademarks in India are registered class by class. To protect your brand in Class 42, a TM-A application is filed for that class with the Trade Marks Registry. If your business spans more than one class, each class is a separate application with its own government fee.
IPForte files your trademark within 48 hours of receiving documents. See the full process on our trademark registration page, or estimate the government and professional fees with the trademark cost calculator.