Trademark Class 38: Telecommunications
Class 38 is where brands for goods and services in the "telecommunications" category live. Similar names filed in your class are the real risk — check yours free and watch for new ones.
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What Class 38 covers
Class 38 of the international (Nice) trademark classification is Telecommunications. In practice, that's where you'll find brands for goods and services in the "telecommunications" category. Every US trademark application declares one or more of the 45 classes, and the class is what decides whether two similar names actually conflict — DELTA for faucets and DELTA for airlines coexist because they're in different classes.
Why the class matters for monitoring
A new filing that's identical to your name but in an unrelated class is usually a curiosity. A merely similar name filed in Class 38 — your class — can be the real problem. That's why MarkAlarm weights class overlap heavily: same-class look-alikes can reach high-priority alerts, while different-class ones stay low — once you tell it which classes you sell in. A watch left open to all 45 classes has no class signal to weigh, so an identical name anywhere can still score high; setting classes is what turns the volume down. If your brand lives in Class 38, watching new filings in it is how you catch a conflict inside the 30-day window instead of months later.
Check your name free above, or watch it going forward from $49/year. This is information, not legal advice; the USPTO's ID Manual is the authoritative source for what belongs in each class.
Filed in Class 38 this week
81 new applications named Class 38 in the week of 2026-09-28. Recent examples:
- K — Amcax, Inc. (2026-10-03) · details
- UNHOOKEDTV — Kelcey Edwin Bunn (2026-10-02) · details
- DAILY.FUN — Daily Active Users, Inc. (2026-10-02) · details
- RECMOM — Raymond M Mancison (2026-10-02) · details
- IPROMPTIAM — Nour Eisa Sulaiman (2026-10-02) · details
- ZAPHAR — The Real Estate Collective LLC (2026-10-02) · details
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