Class 36: Insurance, finance, real estate

Class heading

• Financial, monetary and banking services
• insurance services
• real estate services

What class 36 covers

Class 36 includes mainly services relating to banking and other financial transactions, financial valuation services, as well as insurance and real estate activities.

This class includes in particular:

• financial transaction and payment services, for example, exchanging money, electronic funds transfer, processing of credit card and debit card payments, issuance of travellers' cheques
• financial management and research
• financial appraisals, for example, jewellery, art and real estate appraisal, repair costs evaluation
• cheque verification
• financing and credit services, for example, loans, issuance of credit cards, hire- or lease-purchase financing
• crowdfunding
• safe deposit services
• financial sponsorship
• real estate agency services, real estate management, rental of apartments, rent collection
• insurance underwriting, actuarial services
• brokerage services, for example, securities, insurance and real estate brokerage, brokerage of carbon credits, pawnbrokerage

This class does not include in particular:

• administration services relating to business transactions and financial records, for example, book-keeping, drawing up of statements of accounts, business and financial auditing, business appraisals, tax preparation and filing services (Class 35)
• sponsorship search, promotion of goods and services through sponsorship of sports events (Class 35)
• cash replenishment of automated teller machines (Class 39)
• freight brokerage, transport brokerage (Class 39)
• quality evaluation of wool and standing timber (Class 42)

Class heading and explanatory note adapted from WIPO’s Nice Classification explanatory notes (NCL 13-2026), © WIPO, CC BY. Changes: shortened layout; references to other classes turned into links. CC BY 4.0 (opens in a new tab) · WIPO terms of use (opens in a new tab)

Turkish list (Tebliğ 2026/2) for class 36

Unofficial English translation. Filings in Türkiye use the official Turkish text of TÜRKPATENT Communiqué 2026/2.

• Insurance services
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  Sigorta hizmetleri.

• Financial and monetary affairs (financial and monetary services)
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  Finansal ve parasal hizmetler.

• Real estate brokerage, consultancy and management services
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  Gayrimenkul komisyonculuğu, müşavirliği ve idaresi hizmetleri.

• Customs brokerage services
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  Gümrük müşavirliği hizmetleri.

Example terms in class 36

A selection of 100 terms from the 1,438 USPTO ID Manual terms in this class.

• Accident insurance underwriting
• Administration of dental health insurance claims
• Advice on fiscal assessments
• Agricultural insurance agency services
• Apartment and office rentals
• Appraisal of used books
• Assessing insurance claims
• Automobile loan brokerage services
• Bill payment services provided
• Brokerage advisory services relating to insurance
• Brokerage of renewable energy credits
• Building management
• Capital investment
• Carbon-credit brokerage relating to biocarburants
• Charitable fund raising
• Check payment guarantee services
• Collection agencies
• Commodity exchange
• Consultation in art as an investment
• Credit and financial consultation
• Credit card verification
• Credit reporting services
• Cryptocurrency exchange services
• Currency exchange services
• Debt collection agency services
• Debt settlement services
• Discount securities brokerage services
• Electronic funds transfer by telecommunications
• Electronic transfer of money
• Estate planning
• Factoring agencies
• Financial administration of group insurance plans
• Financial advice relating to income tax
• Financial appraisal and valuation
• Financial consultancy and insurance consultancy
• Financial customs brokerage services
• Financial evaluation of freehold property
• Financial guarantee and surety
• Financial information services relating to cryptocurrency
• Financial management of yacht operations
• Financial portfolio management
• Financial securities brokerage services
• Financial valuation of copyright assets
• Financial valuation of trademark assets
• Financing loans and discounting of bills
• Financing of real estate development projects
• Flight delay insurance underwriting
• Fundraising services for charitable purposes
• Global investment research services
• Hire-purchase financing
• Home equity loans
• Insurance administration
• Insurance claims processing
• Insurance subrogation
• Investment advisory services
• Investment management
• Issuance and administration of annuities
• Issuance of travelers' checks
• Issuing of payment cards
• Issuing prepaid credit cards
• Land leasing
• Lease-purchase financing of motor cars
• Leasing of shopping mall space
• Loan origination services specializing
• Management of a capital investment fund
• Marine fire insurance underwriting
• Mobile banking services
• Money wiring services
• Mortgage refinancing
• Mutual fund analysis services
• On-line business fundraising services
• Online banking services
• Payment and funds verification services
• Pet health insurance consultancy
• Pre-paid funeral expense services
• Processing of credit card payments
• Providing auto insurance information
• Providing financial assessment services
• Providing financial information regarding wealth building
• Providing home warranty administration
• Providing lease financing
• Providing student loans
• Provision of information on securities trading
• Real estate appraisal and valuation
• Real estate insurance underwriting services
• Real estate management
• Real estate syndication
• Reinsurance actuarial services
• Rent collection
• Rental of cabins
• Rental of pastures
• Reverse mortgage brokerage services
• Savings bank services
• Securities underwriting
• Stamp appraisal
• Stocks and bonds brokerage
• Tax payment processing services
• Trading of securities options
• Underwriting warranty programs
• Virtual currency trading services

Example terms: Source: USPTO ID Manual (public domain), retrieved 18 October 2026.

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