Class 21 — Household and kitchen utensils

In simple terms

Liberonym’s explanation, not official wording.

Small household and kitchen items, glassware, porcelain and cleaning implements.

• cookware
• drinking glasses
• reusable bottles
• brushes
• mugs

Official class heading

Verbatim wording published by WIPO, NCL (13-2026).

Household or kitchen utensils and containers; cookware and tableware, except forks, knives and spoons; combs and sponges; brushes, except paintbrushes; brush-making materials; articles for cleaning purposes; unworked or semi-worked glass, except building glass; glassware, porcelain and earthenware

About this class

Official explanatory note, published by WIPO.

Class 21 includes mainly small, hand-operated utensils and apparatus for household and kitchen use, as well as cosmetic utensils, glassware and certain goods made of porcelain, ceramic, earthenware, terra-cotta, clay or glass.

Includes in particular

Official wording, published by WIPO.

• household and kitchen utensils, for example, fly swatters, clothes-pegs, mixing spoons, basting spoons and corkscrews, as well as serving utensils, for example, sugar tongs, ice tongs, pie servers and serving ladles
• household, kitchen and cooking containers, for example, vases, bottles, piggy banks, pails, cocktail shakers, and non-electric kettles, pressure cookers, cooking pots and pans
• small hand-operated kitchen apparatus for mincing, grinding, pressing or crushing, for example, garlic presses, nutcrackers, pestles and mortars
• coasters and place mats, not of paper or textile
• trivets
• cosmetic utensils, for example, electric and non-electric combs and toothbrushes, dental floss, foam toe separators for use in pedicures, powder puffs, fitted vanity cases
• gardening articles, for example, gardening gloves, window-boxes, watering cans
• indoor aquaria, terrariums and vivariums

Does not include in particular

Official wording, published by WIPO.

• cleaning preparations (Class 3)
• certain goods made of glass, porcelain and earthenware that are classified according to their function or purpose, for example, porcelain for dental prostheses (Class 5), spectacle lenses (Class 10), glass wool for insulation, semi-processed acrylic or organic glass (Class 17), earthenware tiles (Class 19), building glass (Class 19), glass fibres for textile use (Class 22)
• containers for storage and transport of goods, of metal (Class 6), not of metal (Class 20)
• small apparatus for mincing, grinding, pressing or crushing, which are driven by electricity (Class 7)
• razors and shaving apparatus, hair and nail clippers, electric and non-electric implements for manicure and pedicure, for example, manicure sets, emery boards, cuticle nippers (Class 8)
• table cutlery (Class 8) and hand-operated cutting tools for kitchen use, for example, vegetable shredders, pizza cutters, cheese slicers (Class 8)
• lice combs (Class 10)
• electric cooking utensils (Class 11)
• toilet mirrors (Class 20)

Goods/services in this class

445 official entries, published by WIPO. Basic numbers are shown where available.

Related classes

• Class 3
• Class 5
• Class 6
• Class 7
• Class 8
• Class 10
• Class 11
• Class 17
• Class 19
• Class 20
• Class 22