Class 5 Pharmaceuticals
Nice Class 5 is the goods class for pharmaceuticals. Signa tracks 3,285,724 marks in this class at 11 offices, 54% still active.
- Trademarks in this class
- 3,285,724
- Still active54% of the class
- 1,790,685
- Filed in 2025
- 158,326
- Offices
- 11
What Class 5 covers
The official class heading, plus common goods terms filed under it.
Class heading
Pharmaceuticals, medical and veterinary preparations; sanitary preparations for medical purposes; dietetic food and substances adapted for medical or veterinary purposes, food for babies; dietary supplements for human beings and animals; adhesive plasters, materials for dressings; material for filling teeth, dental wax; disinfectants; preparations for destroying vermin; fungicides, herbicides
Who files most in Class 5
Ranked by unique Class 5 marks. Subsidiaries and owner-name variants count toward the parent company.
Glaxo Group Limited
United Kingdom
16,638 Class 5 marks91% of portfolioNovartis AG
NOVN · Switzerland
13,825 Class 5 marks82% of portfolioSociété des Produits Nestlé S.A.
NESN · Switzerland
5,953 Class 5 marks20% of portfolioAstraZeneca AB
Sweden
4,829 Class 5 marks90% of portfolioBayer Intellectual Property GmbH
BAYN · Germany
3,899 Class 5 marks87% of portfolioSanofi
France
3,092 Class 5 marks77% of portfolioBiofarma
France
2,417 Class 5 marks89% of portfolioEgis Gyógyszergyár Zártkörűen Működő Részvénytársaság
Hungary
2,019 Class 5 marks100% of portfolio
Where Class 5 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
- WIPO1,118,05234%
- USPTO613,08119%
- EUIPO298,0419%
- UKIPO276,8228%
- INPI France266,5388%
- CIPO199,6966%
- IPI156,9325%
- IP Australia156,5565%
+3 more
By status
Filings per year
New Class 5 applications each year across every office Signa tracks. The current year is year to date.
- Peak year · 158,326 filed
- 2025
- 2022 to 2026 · filed
- 631,704
- First filing
- 1876
Filings by year: 1876: 18, 1877: 8, 1878: 2, 1879: 5, 1880: 2, 1881: 4, 1882: 3, 1884: 15, 1885: 18, 1886: 21, 1887: 15, 1888: 14, 1889: 15, 1890: 13, 1891: 14, 1892: 9, 1893: 16, 1894: 16, 1895: 11, 1896: 17, 1897: 10, 1898: 39, 1899: 27, 1900: 9782, 1901: 28, 1902: 32, 1903: 35, 1904: 28, 1905: 146, 1906: 102, 1907: 68, 1908: 81, 1909: 58, 1910: 50, 1911: 51, 1912: 77, 1913: 97, 1914: 90, 1915: 65, 1916: 75, 1917: 54, 1918: 49, 1919: 114, 1920: 122, 1921: 136, 1922: 148, 1923: 194, 1924: 176, 1925: 167, 1926: 229, 1927: 215, 1928: 305, 1929: 292, 1930: 304, 1931: 319, 1932: 407, 1933: 302, 1934: 298, 1935: 293, 1936: 324, 1937: 359, 1938: 308, 1939: 429, 1940: 408, 1941: 295, 1942: 308, 1943: 401, 1944: 398, 1945: 482, 1946: 643, 1947: 1367, 1948: 1542, 1949: 1455, 1950: 1971, 1951: 2646, 1952: 2772, 1953: 2722, 1954: 2839, 1955: 4335, 1956: 4252, 1957: 2976, 1958: 4086, 1959: 3888, 1960: 4064, 1961: 3744, 1962: 4241, 1963: 4875, 1964: 4850, 1965: 6804, 1966: 14451, 1967: 4795, 1968: 5657, 1969: 5902, 1970: 5283, 1971: 5455, 1972: 5862, 1973: 5084, 1974: 5897, 1975: 11285, 1976: 12936, 1977: 11943, 1978: 14084, 1979: 13581, 1980: 15355, 1981: 13129, 1982: 14268, 1983: 14776, 1984: 14913, 1985: 18358, 1986: 24407, 1987: 23414, 1988: 29630, 1989: 33433, 1990: 35867, 1991: 33122, 1992: 32167, 1993: 33380, 1994: 32300, 1995: 40234, 1996: 49088, 1997: 43008, 1998: 44342, 1999: 45560, 2000: 51914, 2001: 55040, 2002: 52968, 2003: 56102, 2004: 59763, 2005: 69892, 2006: 81566, 2007: 75683, 2008: 72749, 2009: 66863, 2010: 71255, 2011: 75606, 2012: 79220, 2013: 82146, 2014: 88398, 2015: 107131, 2016: 110776, 2017: 104628, 2018: 106104, 2019: 116744, 2020: 135707, 2021: 124124, 2022: 110260, 2023: 117344, 2024: 139843, 2025: 158326, 2026: 105931.
Recently registered in Class 5
A few of the newest registrations. Search the class to see them all.
Search Class 5 trademarksAbout Class 5
What does Nice Class 5 cover?
Pharmaceuticals, medical and veterinary preparations; sanitary preparations for medical purposes; dietetic food and substances adapted for medical or veterinary purposes, food for babies; dietary supplements for human beings and animals; adhesive plasters, materials for dressings; material for filling teeth, dental wax; disinfectants; preparations for destroying vermin; fungicides, herbicides
Which office has the most Class 5 trademarks?
WIPO leads with 1,118,052 Class 5 trademarks tracked by Signa.
Which company has the most Class 5 trademarks?
Among the companies Signa resolves, Glaxo Group Limited holds the most, with 16,638 unique Class 5 marks.
Get this data via the API
Every number on this page comes from the Signa API. Pull Class 5 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=5Search trademarks filed in Class 5
ID=5
curl https://api.signa.so/v1/analytics/classifications/$ID \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $SIGNA_API_KEY"{
"object": "classification_analytics",
"nice_class": 5,
"total_marks": 3285724,
"active_count": 1790685,
"by_office": {
"WO": 1118052,
"US": 613081,
"EM": 298041
}
}