Class 15: Musical instruments
Nice Classification goods class, NCL 13-2026.
Class heading
Musical instruments; music stands and stands for musical instruments; conductors' batons
Explanatory note
Class 15 includes mainly musical instruments, their parts and their accessories.
This class includes, in particular:
- mechanical musical instruments and their accessories, for example, barrel organs, mechanical pianos, intensity regulators for mechanical pianos, robotic drums
- musical boxes
- electrical and electronic musical instruments
- strings, reeds, pegs and pedals for musical instruments
- tuning forks, tuning hammers
- colophony (rosin) for stringed musical instruments
This class does not include, in particular:
- apparatus for the recording, transmission, amplification and reproduction of sound, for example, electric and electronic effects units for musical instruments, wah-wah pedals, audio interfaces, audio mixers, equalisers being audio apparatus, subwoofers (Class 9)
- downloadable electronic sheet music (Class 9), printed sheet music (Class 16)
- downloadable music files (Class 9)
- musical juke boxes (Class 9)
- metronomes (Class 9)
- musical greeting cards (Class 16)
Common terms in Class 15
A sample of official terms from the WIPO alphabetical list. Search the full list in the Nice Class Finder.
- accordions
- bagpipes
- bamboo flutes
- bandonions
- banjos
- barrel organs
- bows for musical instruments
- castanets
- chin rests for violins
- clarionets
- clarions
- concertinas
- conductors' batons
- cymbals
- double basses
- drum machines
- drumheads
- drumsticks
- flutes
- gongs
- guitars
- harmonicas
- harmoniums
- harp strings
- harps
- kettledrum frames
- kettledrums
- keys for musical instruments
- lyres
- mandolins
Indicative only. Classification and specifications should be confirmed by an attorney before filing. This is general information, not legal advice.