Trademark Class 33: Alcoholic Beverages & Preparations

When filing a trademark, selecting the correct class is essential for ensuring legal protection. Trademark Class 33 covers alcoholic beverages, including spirits, wine, beer alternatives, and other alcoholic preparations. If your brand deals with liquor or alcoholic drinks, this is the class you must consider.

What Products Fall Under Class 33?

Trademark Class 33 includes a wide range of alcoholic beverages, excluding beer (which is classified under Class 32). Here’s a list of common items included:

• Wine (red, white, sparkling, etc.)

• Whiskey, vodka, rum, gin, tequila, and other spirits

• Brandy and liqueurs

• Cider and perry (alcoholic)

• Prepared cocktails and premixed drinks

• Alcoholic fruit extracts or tinctures

This class covers both traditional and modern alcoholic drinks sold for consumption.

Importance of Choosing Class 33

Registering your trademark in Class 33 gives you exclusive rights over your brand within the alcoholic beverage industry. This is especially important if your brand name, logo, or packaging has a distinctive look and feel that you want to legally protect from imitation.

You might also consider filing in additional classes if you:

• Produce non-alcoholic versions (Class 32)

• Sell barware or glassware (Class 21)

• Offer restaurant or bar services (Class 43)

This ensures that your brand identity remains secure across multiple categories of products and services.

What is Not Included in Class 33?

Class 33 does not include:

• Beers and ales (Class 32)

• Non-alcoholic drinks and syrups (Class 32)

• Medical tonics or drinks (Class 5)

Understanding what’s excluded is just as important as knowing what’s included, to avoid misclassification during the trademark registration process.

Examples of Class 33 Trademark Use

Here are some real-world examples of businesses that should register under Class 33:

• A craft distillery launching its signature line of gin

• A wine brand selling through retail and restaurants

• A company making pre-mixed alcoholic cocktails

• Alcohol brands expanding into flavored or infused spirits

Filing under the right class can help these businesses build long-term brand equity and fend off copycats.

Tips Before Filing a Trademark in Class 33

To ensure a smooth and effective registration:

• Be precise with product descriptions (e.g., “rum-based cocktail in cans” instead of just “alcoholic drinks”).

• Conduct a trademark availability search to avoid conflicts.

• Consider future product expansion—if you’re planning to enter new segments, file in related classes as well.

• Hire a trademark professional for best results.

Trademark Class 33 is essential for companies that manufacture, market, or sell alcoholic beverages. Whether you’re distilling rum, bottling wine, or mixing cocktails, this class provides the legal framework to protect your brand identity in a highly competitive industry.

Start your trademark registration journey today and secure your place in the market with confidence.

Brands/Trademarks you Might Know in Class 33:

Bacardi

How can Tradeviser help in your Trademark journey?

We have an awesome in-house team of Trademark professionals who can provide valuable assistance throughout the trademark process. Our Trademark Attorneys can then help prepare and file a trademark application with the relevant trademark office and respond to the office’s actions or objections to the examination. If the trademark is challenged, our attorney can help prepare and present a strong case supporting the application. Finally, once a trademark is registered, our attorney can help monitor and enforce trademark rights to prevent infringement by others. Through our team’s expertise and knowledge of the legal environment, we can help ensure that the trademark registration process goes smoothly and the resulting trademark offers the necessary protection of the symbol or object.

Detailed List of goods Classified under Class 33

1. anise [liqueur] 2. anisette [liqueur] 3. aperitifs*
4. arrack [arak] / arak [arrack] 5. baijiu [Chinese distilled alcoholic beverage] 6. alcoholic beverages containing fruit
7. alcoholic beverages, except beer
8. bitters
9. brandy
10. cider
11. cocktails*
12. curacao
13. digesters [liqueurs and spirits] 14. distilled beverages
15. alcoholic essences
16. alcoholic extracts
17. fruit extracts, alcoholic
18. gin
19. hydromel [mead] / mead [hydromel] 20. kirsch
21. liqueurs
22. nira [sugarcane-based alcoholic beverage] 23. peppermint liqueurs
24. perry
25. piquette
26. pre-mixed alcoholic beverages, other than beer-based
27. rice alcohol
28. rum
29. sake
30. spirits [beverages] 31. vodka
32. whisky
33. wine