NICE CLASSIFICATION - 12 Edition, Version 2025

Class 8 includes mainly hand-operated tools and implements for performing tasks, such as drilling, shaping, cutting and piercing.

This Class includes, in particular:

- hand-operated agricultural, gardening and landscaping tools;

- hand-operated tools for carpenters, artists and other craftspersons, for example, hammers, chisels and gravers;

- handles for hand-operated hand tools, such as knives and scythes;

- electric and non-electric hand implements for personal grooming and body art, for example, razors, implements for hair curling, tattooing, and for manicure and pedicure;

- hand-operated pumps;

- table cutlery, such as knives, forks and spoons, including those made of precious metals.

This Class does not include, in particular:

- machine tools and implements driven by a motor (Cl. 7);

- surgical cutlery (Cl. 10);

- pumps for bicycle tyres (Cl. 12), pumps specially adapted for use with balls for games (Cl. 28);

- side arms being firearms (Cl. 13);

- paper knives and paper shredders for office use (Cl. 16);

- handles for objects that are classified in various classes according to their function or purpose, for example, walking stick handles, umbrella handles (Cl. 18), broom handles (Cl. 21);

- serving utensils, for example, sugar tongs, ice tongs, pie servers and serving ladles, and kitchen utensils, for example, mixing spoons, pestles and mortars, nutcrackers and spatulas (Cl. 21);

- fencing weapons (Cl. 28).