Class 12 Vehicles
Nice Class 12 is the goods class for vehicles. Signa tracks 1,367,742 marks in this class at 11 offices, 61% still active.
- Trademarks in this class
- 1,367,742
- Still active61% of the class
- 833,015
- Filed in 2025
- 74,174
- Offices
- 11
What Class 12 covers
The official class heading, plus common goods terms filed under it.
Class heading
Vehicles; apparatus for locomotion by land, air or water
Who files most in Class 12
Ranked by unique Class 12 marks. Subsidiaries and owner-name variants count toward the parent company.
Mercedes-Benz Group AG
MBG · Germany
4,267 Class 12 marks73% of portfolioBayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
BMW · Germany
3,588 Class 12 marks70% of portfolioVolkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
VOW · Germany
2,750 Class 12 marks79% of portfolioToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha Also Trading AS Toyota Motor
Japan
2,079 Class 12 marks81% of portfolioCompagnie Generale des Etablissements Michelin
France
1,633 Class 12 marks77% of portfolioHyundai Motor Company
South Korea
1,514 Class 12 marks51% of portfolioContinental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
Germany
1,428 Class 12 marks88% of portfolioAutomobiles Citroen
France
1,308 Class 12 marks93% of portfolioAUDI Aktiengesellschaft
Germany
1,134 Class 12 marks68% of portfolio
Where Class 12 marks are filed
Office totals add up each office's own register, so an international registration counts at WIPO and again at each covered office where it is designated.
By office
- WIPO450,99133%
- USPTO244,12018%
- EUIPO141,99410%
- UKIPO125,5909%
- INPI France111,6738%
- CIPO92,1977%
- IP Australia69,1415%
- IPI53,9674%
+3 more
By status
Filings per year
New Class 12 applications each year across every office Signa tracks. The current year is year to date.
- Peak year · 74,174 filed
- 2025
- 2022 to 2026 · filed
- 300,661
- First filing
- 1832
Filings by year: 1832: 1, 1876: 10, 1877: 3, 1884: 6, 1885: 3, 1886: 4, 1887: 6, 1888: 7, 1889: 4, 1890: 3, 1891: 1, 1892: 2, 1893: 3, 1894: 1, 1895: 2, 1896: 2, 1897: 8, 1898: 1, 1899: 9, 1900: 2444, 1901: 10, 1902: 10, 1903: 14, 1904: 4, 1905: 11, 1906: 24, 1907: 24, 1908: 23, 1909: 28, 1910: 28, 1911: 23, 1912: 21, 1913: 17, 1914: 30, 1915: 15, 1916: 21, 1917: 24, 1918: 19, 1919: 34, 1920: 61, 1921: 82, 1922: 53, 1923: 46, 1924: 54, 1925: 55, 1926: 89, 1927: 89, 1928: 78, 1929: 97, 1930: 106, 1931: 81, 1932: 132, 1933: 78, 1934: 65, 1935: 69, 1936: 82, 1937: 113, 1938: 77, 1939: 165, 1940: 90, 1941: 74, 1942: 46, 1943: 69, 1944: 70, 1945: 121, 1946: 167, 1947: 284, 1948: 492, 1949: 479, 1950: 687, 1951: 585, 1952: 928, 1953: 777, 1954: 784, 1955: 1005, 1956: 1079, 1957: 732, 1958: 834, 1959: 1101, 1960: 986, 1961: 711, 1962: 1146, 1963: 1134, 1964: 1451, 1965: 1816, 1966: 3605, 1967: 1557, 1968: 1792, 1969: 2027, 1970: 1839, 1971: 2274, 1972: 1985, 1973: 2157, 1974: 2179, 1975: 3707, 1976: 4831, 1977: 4682, 1978: 5901, 1979: 4834, 1980: 5672, 1981: 4963, 1982: 5764, 1983: 5738, 1984: 6140, 1985: 7189, 1986: 8490, 1987: 8682, 1988: 11974, 1989: 13058, 1990: 14511, 1991: 12606, 1992: 10905, 1993: 12207, 1994: 12119, 1995: 15406, 1996: 19385, 1997: 17503, 1998: 17075, 1999: 18896, 2000: 21737, 2001: 20504, 2002: 19725, 2003: 23010, 2004: 24598, 2005: 27801, 2006: 35014, 2007: 29177, 2008: 29926, 2009: 26655, 2010: 29414, 2011: 32192, 2012: 32822, 2013: 34217, 2014: 34819, 2015: 44430, 2016: 52702, 2017: 47085, 2018: 47937, 2019: 47599, 2020: 47976, 2021: 57502, 2022: 54548, 2023: 59769, 2024: 69525, 2025: 74174, 2026: 42645.
Recently registered in Class 12
A few of the newest registrations. Search the class to see them all.
Search Class 12 trademarks| Mark | Status | Office | Classes | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SPIRIT MARINE | registered | EUIPO | 7, 12, 35 | 2026-06-04 |
| Cubivan | registered | EUIPO | 12, 20, 25, 37 | 2026-06-11 |
| MUNKTELLS | registered | EUIPO | 7, 12, 25, 28, 37, 41 | 2026-06-11 |
| Zentra-35 | registered | EUIPO | 9, 12, 42 | 2026-06-19 |
| DRETHYLA | registered | EUIPO | 7, 9, 12 | 2026-06-17 |
| [Design Mark] | registered | EUIPO | 9, 12, 16, 25, 35, 36 | 2026-06-30 |
About Class 12
What does Nice Class 12 cover?
Vehicles; apparatus for locomotion by land, air or water
Which office has the most Class 12 trademarks?
WIPO leads with 450,991 Class 12 trademarks tracked by Signa.
Which company has the most Class 12 trademarks?
Among the companies Signa resolves, Mercedes-Benz Group AG holds the most, with 4,267 unique Class 12 marks.
Get this data via the API
Every number on this page comes from the Signa API. Pull Class 12 statistics and terms into your own product with one request.
GET/v1/analytics/classifications/{id}Totals, status mix, office split and filings per year
GET/v1/classifications/{id}Official heading and every goods or services term
GET/v1/trademarks?nice_classes=12Search trademarks filed in Class 12
ID=12
curl https://api.signa.so/v1/analytics/classifications/$ID \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $SIGNA_API_KEY"{
"object": "classification_analytics",
"nice_class": 12,
"total_marks": 1367742,
"active_count": 833015,
"by_office": {
"WO": 450991,
"US": 244120,
"EM": 141994
}
}