Trademark Class 30 in India: Register Your Food, Spices, and Confectionery Products

India’s food industry is thriving, with brands vying for consumer attention in supermarkets, ecommerce stores, and local shops. If your business involves the production, packaging, or sale of staple, processed, or ready-to-eat foods, Trademark Class 30 is vital for brand protection. Trademark Class 30 covers a diverse range of staple food products and related condiments, as detailed under the NICE Classification system. This includes packaged foods and daily essentials found across Indian households and retail spaces.

• Coffee, tea, cocoa, artificial coffee
• Sugar, rice, tapioca, sago
• Flour and cereals
• Bread, pastry, confectionery, biscuits
• Chocolates, candies, sweeteners
• Pasta, noodles, and prepared cereals
• Ice creams, frozen desserts, edible ices
• Honey, treacle
• Yeast, baking powder
• Salt, mustard, spices, condiments, sauces
• Vinegar and auxiliary food enhancers
• Processed snack foods

These items reflect the flavors and convenience that define Indian snacks, sweets, and staple diets.

1. Legal Protection From Copycats

Securing your trademark under Class 30 offers legal exclusivity, preventing others from misusing or replicating your brand’s name, logo, or packaging on similar food products.

2. Building Consumer Trust

A registered trademark signals trust and professionalism, reassuring buyers in an extremely competitive market and opening doors to large retailers and leading e-commerce platforms like Amazon or Flipkart.

3. Boosting Business Expansion

Whether you’re aiming for supermarket shelves, export markets, or launching a franchise, a registered trademark provides a springboard for business growth6.

Baked Goods & Confectionery:

• Bread, buns, pav, bread rolls
• Cakes, pastries, doughnuts, pies, tarts
• Biscuits (sweet and savory), cookies, rusks
• Chocolates, chocolate bars, pralines
• Sugar candies, toffees, lollipops, caramels, sweetmeats
• Indian sweets (laddoo, barfi, peda, jalebi)

Processed and Frozen Foods:

• Instant noodles, spaghetti, vermicelli, macaroni, pasta of all types
• Ready-to-eat meals and heat-to-eat Indian food packs (excluding frozen meat or vegetables, which fall under other classes)
• Frozen yogurt, kulfi, gelato

Breakfast Staples and Cereals:

• Corn flakes, muesli, oatmeal, poha, granola bars
• Cereal-based snack foods

Beverages and Beverage Bases:

• Coffee (roasted, ground, instant, flavored), decaf and coffee substitutes
• Tea (green, black, masala, flavored, herbal teas except medicinal)
• Cocoa powder, cocoa mix, hot chocolate drink mixes

Condiments and Spices:

• Salt, black salt, rock salt
• Mustard, vinegar (for flavouring, not preservation), synthetic vinegar
• Sauce (tomato ketchup, chili sauce, soya sauce, mayonnaise, dressings)
• Spices and masalas (turmeric, jeera/cumin, coriander powder, garam masala, etc.)

Others:

• Honey, treacle, golden syrup
• Baking soda (for cooking), baking powder, raising agents
• Edible ices, ice cream cones/cups, kulfi containers

More List

• allspice
• almond paste
• almond confectionery
• aniseed
• aromatic preparations for food
• artificial coffee
• baking powder
• baking soda [bicarbonate of soda for cooking purposes] / bicarbonate of soda for cooking purposes [baking soda]
• barley meal
• bean meal
• beer vinegar
• binding agents for ice cream [edible ices] / binding agents for ice cream / binding agents for edible ices
• biscuits / cookies
• bread
• bread rolls
• breadcrumbs
• buns
• cake powder
• cake dough / cake batter
• cake frosting [icing]
• cakes
• candy*
• candy decorations for cakes
• capers
• caramels [candy]
• celery salt
• cereal preparations
• cereal bars
• cereal-based snack food
• cheeseburgers [sandwiches]
• chewing gum*
• chicory [coffee substitute]
• chips [cereal products]
• chocolate
• chocolate beverages with milk
• chocolate mousses
• chocolate decorations for cakes
• chocolate-based beverages
• chocolate-coated nuts
• chow-chow [condiment]
• chutneys [condiments]
• cinnamon [spice]
• cloves [spice]
• cocoa
• cocoa beverages with milk
• cocoa-based beverages
• coffee flavorings [flavourings]
• coffee
• coffee beverages with milk
• coffee-based beverages
• condiments
• confectionery for decorating Christmas trees
• confectionery / sugar confectionery
• cooking salt
• corn flakes / maize flakes
• corn flour / corn meal / maize flour / maize meal
• corn, milled / maize, milled
• corn, roasted / maize, roasted
• couscous [semolina]
• crackers
• cream of tartar for culinary purposes
• crushed oats
• curry [spice]
• custard
• dessert mousses [confectionery]
• dough
• dressings for salad
• essences for foodstuffs, except etheric essences and essential oils
• farinaceous foods
• ferments for pastes
• flavorings [flavourings], other than essential oils, for cakes / flavorings, other than essential oils, for cakes / flavourings, other than essential oils, for cakes
• flavorings [flavourings], other than essential oils, for beverages / flavorings, other than essential oils, for beverages / flavourings, other than essential oils, for beverages
• flowers or leaves for use as tea substitutes
• fondants [confectionery]
• food flavourings, other than essential oils / food flavorings, other than essential oils
• fruit jellies [confectionery]
• fruit coulis [sauces]
• garden herbs, preserved [seasonings]
• ginger [spice]
• gingerbread
• glucose for culinary purposes
• gluten prepared as foodstuff
• gluten additives for culinary purposes
• golden syrup
• groats for human food
• halvah
• ham glaze
• high-protein cereal bars
• hominy
• hominy grits
• honey
• husked barley
• husked oats
• ice cream
• ice, natural or artificial
• ice for refreshment
• iced tea
• edible ices
• infusions, not medicinal
• ketchup [sauce]
• leaven
• linseed for human consumption / flaxseed for human consumption
• liquorice [confectionery]
• lozenges [confectionery] / pastilles [confectionery]
• macaroni
• macaroons [pastry]
• malt biscuits
• malt extract for food
• malt for human consumption
• maltose
• marinades
• marzipan
• mayonnaise
• meal* / flour*
• meat pies
• meat tenderizers, for household purposes
• meat gravies
• minced garlic [condiment]
• mint for confectionery
• molasses for food
• muesli
• mustard meal
• mustard
• natural sweeteners
• noodle-based prepared meals
• noodles / ribbon vermicelli
• nutmegs
• oat flakes
• oat-based food
• oatmeal
• palm sugar
• pancakes
• pasta / farinaceous food pastes
• pasta sauce
• pastries
• pastry dough
• pâtés en croûte
• peanut confectionery
• pelmeni [dumplings stuffed with meat]
• pepper
• peppermint sweets
• peppers [seasonings]
• pesto [sauce]
• petit-beurre biscuits
• petits fours [cakes]
• pies
• pizzas
• popcorn
• potato flour*
• powders for ice cream / powder for edible ices
• pralines
• propolis* / bee glue*
• puddings
• quiches
• ravioli
• relish [condiment]
• rice
• rice cakes
• rice pudding
• rice-based snack food
• royal jelly*
• rusks
• saffron [seasoning]
• sago
• salt for preserving foodstuffs
• sandwiches
• sauces [condiments]
• sausage binding materials
• sea water for cooking
• seasonings
• seaweed [condiment]
• semolina
• sherbets [ices] / sorbets [ices]
• soya flour
• soya sauce
• soya bean paste [condiment]
• spaghetti
• spices
• spring rolls
• star aniseed
• starch for food
• stick liquorice [confectionery]
• preparations for stiffening whipped cream
• sugar*
• sushi
• sweetmeats [candy]
• tabbouleh
• tacos
• tapioca
• tapioca flour*
• tarts
• tea*
• tea-based beverages
• thickening agents for cooking foodstuffs
• tomato sauce
• tortillas
• turmeric*
• unleavened bread
• unroasted coffee
• vanilla [flavoring] [flavouring]
• vanillin [vanilla substitute]
• vareniki [stuffed dumplings]
• vegetal preparations for use as coffee substitutes
• vermicelli [noodles]
• vinegar
• waffles
• wheat flour
• wheat germ for human consumption
• yeast*
• frozen yoghurt [confectionery ices] / frozen yogurt [confectionery ices]

Note: Raw cereals, animal feed, baby food, salad dressings, and medicinal teas fall under different classes and are not covered under Class 30.