Class 17 Rubber Products

Unprocessed and semi-processed rubber, gutta-percha, gum, asbestos, mica, and substitutes for all these materials; plastics and resins in extruded form for use in manufacture; packing, stopping, and insulating materials; flexible pipes, tubes, and hoses, not of metal.

Explanatory Note:
It includes mainly electrical, thermal, and acoustic insulating materials and plastics for use in manufacture in the form of sheets, blocks, and rods, as well as certain goods made of rubber, gutta-percha, gum, asbestos, mica, or substitutes.

It includes, in particular: -rubber material for recapping tyres; -floating anti-pollution barriers; -adhesive tapes, other than stationery and not for medical or household purposes;-plastic films, other than for wrapping and packaging, for example, anti-dazzle films for windows; -elastic threads and threads of rubber or plastic, not for textile use; -certain goods made of the materials in this class not otherwise classified by function or purpose, for example, foam supports for flower arrangements, padding and stuffing materials of rubber or plastics, rubber stoppers, shock-absorbing buffers of rubber, rubber bags or envelopes for packaging. This Class does not include, in particular: -fire hose (Class 9); -pipes being parts of sanitary installations (Class 11) and rigid pipes of metal (Class 6) and not of metal (Class 19); -insulating glass for building (Class 19); -certain goods made of the materials in this class that are classified according to their function or purpose, for example, gum resins (Class 2), rubber for dental purposes (Class 5), asbestos screens for firemen (Class 9), adhesive rubber patches for repairing inner tubes (Class 12), rubber erasers (Class 16).