Class 16 Paper Goods and Printed Material

Paper and cardboard; printed matter; bookbinding material; photographs; stationery and office requisites, except furniture; adhesives for stationery or household purposes; drawing materials and materials for artists; paintbrushes; instructional and teaching materials; plastic sheets, films, and bags for wrapping and packaging; printers’ type, printing blocks.

Explanatory Note:
It includes mainly paper, cardboard, and certain goods made of those materials, as well as office requisites.

This Class includes, in particular: -paper knives and paper cutters;-cases, covers, and devices for holding or securing paper, for example, document files, money clips, holders for chequebooks, paper clips, passport holders, scrapbooks;-certain office machines, for example, typewriters, duplicators, franking machines for office use, pencil sharpeners;-painting articles for use by artists and interior and exterior painters, for example, artists’ watercolour saucers, painters’ easels and palettes, paint rollers and trays;-certain disposable paper products, for example, bibs, handkerchiefs and table linen of paper; -certain goods made of paper or cardboard not otherwise classified by function or purpose, for example, paper bags, envelopes and containers for packaging, statues, figurines and works of art of paper or cardboard, such as figurines of paper mâché, framed or unframed lithographs, paintings and watercolours. This Class does not include, in particular: -paints (Class 02); -hand tools for artists, for example, spatulas, sculptors’ chisels (Class 08); -teaching apparatus, for example, audiovisual teaching apparatus, resuscitation mannequins (Class 09), and toy models (Class 28); -certain goods made of paper or cardboard that are classified according to their function or purpose, for example, photographic paper (Class 01), abrasive paper (Class 03), paper blinds (Class 20), table cups and plates of paper (Class 21), bed linen of paper (Class 24), paper clothing (Class 25), cigarette paper (Class 34).