Class 40 Treatment of Materials
Nice Class 40 is the services class for treatment of materials. Signa tracks 806,862 marks in this class at 11 offices, 59% still active.
- Trademarks in this class
- 806,862
- Still active59% of the class
- 479,468
- Filed in 2025
- 44,420
- Offices
- 11
What Class 40 covers
The official class heading, plus common services terms filed under it.
Class heading
Treatment of materials; recycling of waste and trash; air purification and treatment of water; printing services; food and drink preservation
Who files most in Class 40
Ranked by unique Class 40 marks. Subsidiaries and owner-name variants count toward the parent company.
Comité International Olympique (CIO)
Switzerland
351 Class 40 marks27% of portfolioElectricite de France
France
341 Class 40 marks33% of portfolioFUJIFILM Corporation
Japan
292 Class 40 marks12% of portfolioUnion des Associations Européennes de Football (UEFA)
Switzerland
272 Class 40 marks21% of portfolioFédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA)
Switzerland
224 Class 40 marks19% of portfolioMERCK Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien
MRK · Germany
165 Class 40 marks3% of portfoliothyssenkrupp AG
TKA · Germany
120 Class 40 marks21% of portfolioApple Inc.
AAPL · United States
73 Class 40 marks1% of portfolioABB Asea Brown Boveri Ltd
Switzerland
51 Class 40 marks2% of portfolio
Where Class 40 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
- WIPO208,55626%
- USPTO145,72018%
- INPI France103,30213%
- EUIPO99,44912%
- UKIPO82,00010%
- CIPO67,3118%
- IP Australia32,4184%
- IPI30,4654%
+3 more
By status
Filings per year
New Class 40 applications each year across every office Signa tracks. The current year is year to date.
- Peak year · 44,420 filed
- 2025
- 2022 to 2026 · filed
- 191,915
- First filing
- 1900
Filings by year: 1900: 697, 1918: 1, 1920: 1, 1929: 1, 1932: 1, 1935: 1, 1936: 1, 1937: 1, 1939: 1, 1940: 1, 1941: 1, 1944: 2, 1946: 2, 1947: 21, 1948: 14, 1949: 8, 1950: 11, 1951: 10, 1952: 15, 1953: 14, 1954: 24, 1955: 20, 1956: 18, 1957: 19, 1958: 17, 1959: 19, 1960: 51, 1961: 56, 1962: 51, 1963: 89, 1964: 160, 1965: 87, 1966: 752, 1967: 393, 1968: 177, 1969: 249, 1970: 270, 1971: 384, 1972: 327, 1973: 269, 1974: 465, 1975: 817, 1976: 1082, 1977: 965, 1978: 1551, 1979: 1338, 1980: 1420, 1981: 1535, 1982: 1641, 1983: 1513, 1984: 1669, 1985: 2075, 1986: 2661, 1987: 3106, 1988: 3748, 1989: 4494, 1990: 5237, 1991: 5186, 1992: 4994, 1993: 5924, 1994: 5242, 1995: 6322, 1996: 8137, 1997: 8374, 1998: 8873, 1999: 10770, 2000: 13088, 2001: 12308, 2002: 12374, 2003: 13535, 2004: 13366, 2005: 16876, 2006: 20190, 2007: 21102, 2008: 21936, 2009: 19252, 2010: 20813, 2011: 23509, 2012: 23796, 2013: 23452, 2014: 24506, 2015: 30244, 2016: 31790, 2017: 30332, 2018: 32975, 2019: 33448, 2020: 31530, 2021: 38536, 2022: 39484, 2023: 41127, 2024: 42044, 2025: 44420, 2026: 24840.
Recently registered in Class 40
A few of the newest registrations. Search the class to see them all.
Search Class 40 trademarks| Mark | Status | Office | Classes | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Calvion | registered | EUIPO | 7, 9, 11, 37, 40, 42 | 2026-05-05 |
| HYDROSTATIC LIFT | registered | EUIPO | 9, 11, 40, 42, 45 | 2026-06-09 |
| NEREA | registered | EUIPO | 7, 11, 37, 40, 41 | 2026-06-10 |
| UBoT | registered | EUIPO | 9, 40, 42 | 2026-06-17 |
| VTA Aquacarb | registered | EUIPO | 1, 40, 42 | 2026-07-13 |
| OXYGEN CONSERVATION | registered | EUIPO | 35, 36, 37, 39, 40, 41 | 2025-12-22 |
About Class 40
What does Nice Class 40 cover?
Treatment of materials; recycling of waste and trash; air purification and treatment of water; printing services; food and drink preservation
Which office has the most Class 40 trademarks?
WIPO leads with 208,556 Class 40 trademarks tracked by Signa.
Which company has the most Class 40 trademarks?
Among the companies Signa resolves, Comité International Olympique (CIO) holds the most, with 351 unique Class 40 marks.
Get this data via the API
Every number on this page comes from the Signa API. Pull Class 40 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=40Search trademarks filed in Class 40
ID=40
curl https://api.signa.so/v1/analytics/classifications/$ID \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $SIGNA_API_KEY"{
"object": "classification_analytics",
"nice_class": 40,
"total_marks": 806862,
"active_count": 479468,
"by_office": {
"WO": 208556,
"US": 145720,
"FR": 103302
}
}