When you register a design, you identify the product in which your design is incorporated or to which it is applied. The Locarno Classification helps you assign that product to the appropriate class and subclass.
The classification consists of 32 main classes, listed below. It serves an administrative purpose and does not determine the scope of protection for your design.
Overview of the classes
Foodstuffs
Articles of clothing and haberdashery
Travel goods, cases, parasols and personal belongings, not elsewhere specified
Brushware
Textile piece goods, artificial and natural sheet material
Furnishing
Household goods, not elsewhere specified
Tools and hardware
Packaging and containers for the transport or handling of goods
Clocks and watches and other measuring instruments, checking and signaling instruments
Articles of adornment
Means of transport or hoisting
Equipment for production, distribution or transformation of electricity
Recording, telecommunication or data processing equipment
Machines, not elsewhere specified
Photographic, cinematographic and optical apparatus
Musical instruments
Printing and office machinery
Stationery and office equipment, artists' and teaching materials
Sales and advertising equipment, signs
Games, toys, tents and sports goods
Arms, pyrotechnic articles, articles for hunting, fishing and pest killing
Fluid distribution equipment, sanitary, heating, ventilation and air-conditioning equipment, solid fuel
Medical and laboratory equipment
Building units and construction elements
Lighting apparatus
Tobacco and smokers' supplies
Pharmaceutical and cosmetic products, toilet articles and apparatus
Devices and equipment against fire hazards, for accident prevention and for life saving
Articles for the care and handling of animals
Machines and appliances for preparing food or drink, not elsewhere specified
Graphic symbols and logos, surface patterns, ornamentation, arrangement of interiors and exteriors
Based on the 15th edition of the Locarno Classification (LOC 15), effective January 1, 2025. Last checked on October 27, 2026.
