NICE Class 11 covers apparatus and installations for lighting, heating, cooling, steam generating, cooking, drying, ventilating, water supply and sanitary purposes. It is a goods class for environmental-control and home appliances — from lamps and water heaters to cookers, fans and sanitaryware. In Nepal you register a Class 11 trademark with the Department of Industry, and protection covers only the class you file in.
Key Takeaways
- Class 11 is the appliances class — lighting, heating, cooling, cooking, ventilating, water-supply and sanitary apparatus.
- It includes lamps, solar water heaters, cookers and gas stoves, fans, air conditioners, water filters, toilets and taps.
- It excludes power generators and air condensers (Class 7), and non-electric cooking utensils (Class 21).
- Nepal's solar-water-heater, lighting, sanitaryware and appliance sectors file in Class 11.
- Register with the Department of Industry under the Patent, Design and Trademark Act 1965.
- Search Class 11 before filing — the appliance market is crowded with similar names.
What does Trademark Class 11 cover?
Class 11 covers apparatus and installations for lighting, heating, cooling, steam generating, cooking, drying, ventilating, water supply and sanitary purposes. The unifying idea is equipment that controls the environment or provides a utility in a home or building — lighting a room, heating water, cooking food, ventilating air, supplying and treating water, and sanitary fixtures. It ranges from a simple lamp to an air conditioner, a solar water heater, a gas cooker and a toilet.
Full list of goods in Class 11
Below is the complete alphabetical list of Class 11 goods indications from the WIPO NICE Classification (13-2026 edition) — 377 entries in total. Use it to find the exact wording for your specification when you file in Nepal:
- Acetylene burners
- Acetylene flares
- Acetylene generators
- Adsorption apparatus for generating gas
- Air conditioners for vehicles
- Air cooling apparatus
- Air deodorizing apparatus / air deodorising apparatus
- Air dryers / air driers
- Air filtering installations
- Air fryers
- Air purifying apparatus and machines
- Air reheaters
- Air sterilizers / air sterilisers
- Air valves for steam heating installations
- Air-conditioning apparatus
- Air-conditioning installations
- Alcohol burners
- Anti-glare devices for vehicles [lamp fittings] / anti-dazzle devices for vehicles [lamp fittings]
- Anti-splash tap nozzles
- Apparatus for dehydrating food waste
- Apparatus for fertilizer irrigation
- Apparatus for making ices and ice cream, electric
- Aquarium filtration apparatus
- Aquarium heaters
- Aquarium lights
- Arc lamps
- Ash conveyor installations, automatic
- Autoclaves, electric, for cooking / pressure cookers, electric
- Bakers' ovens
- Barbecues
- Bath fittings
- Bath installations / bath plumbing fixtures
- Bath tubs
- Bath tubs for sitz baths
- Bed warmers
- Beer brewing machines, electric, for household purposes
- Beverage cooling apparatus
- Beverage urns, electric
- Bicycle lights
- Bidets
- Bioreactors for use in the treatment of waste
- Bioreactors for use in the treatment of wastewater
- Blankets, electric, not for medical purposes
- Boiler pipes [tubes] for heating installations
- Boilers, other than parts of machines
- Book sterilization apparatus / book sterilisation apparatus
- Brackets for gas burners
- Bread baking machines
- Bread toasters / toasters
- Bread-making machines
- Burners for lamps
- Burners*
- Candle lanterns
- Carbon for arc lamps
- Ceiling lights
- Central heating radiators
- Chandeliers
- Chimney blowers
- Chimney flues
- Chinese lanterns
- Chocolate fountains, electric
- Chromatography apparatus for industrial purposes
- Clean chambers [sanitary installations]
- Coffee capsules, empty, for electric coffee machines
- Coffee machines incorporating water purifiers
- Coffee machines, electric
- Coffee percolators, electric
- Coffee roasters
- Coffeepots, electric
- Coils [parts of distilling, heating or cooling installations]
- Cooking apparatus and installations
- Cooking pots, electric
- Cooking rings
- Cooking stoves / cookers
- Cooking utensils, electric
- Cool boxes, electric / coolers, electric
- Coolers for furnaces / cooling vats for furnaces
- Cooling appliances and installations
- Cooling installations and machines
- Cooling installations for liquids
- Cooling installations for tobacco
- Cooling installations for water
- Cooling mats for pets, not for veterinary purposes
- Couscous cookers, electric
- Cryogenic apparatus*
- Curing lamps, not for medical purposes
- Curling lamps
- Dampers [heating]
- Deep fryers, electric
- Defrosters for vehicles
- Dehumidifiers
- Dental ovens
- Deodorizing apparatus, not for personal use / deodorising apparatus, not for personal use
- Desalination plants
- Desiccating apparatus
- Directional lights for bicycles
- Discharge tubes, electric, for lighting
- Dish drying machines
- Disinfectant apparatus
- Disinfectant apparatus for dispensing solutions into water-pipes for sanitary installations
- Disinfectant apparatus for medical purposes
- Distillation apparatus*
- Distillation columns
- Diving lights
- Drip irrigation emitters [irrigation fittings]
- Drying apparatus
- Drying apparatus and installations
- Drying apparatus for fodder and forage / forage drying apparatus
- Electric appliances for making yogurt / electric appliances for making yoghurt
- Electric cooktops
- Electric fans for personal use
- Electric hot pots
- Electric lamps
- Electric night-lights
- Electric thermo-pots
- Electric torches / electric flashlights
- Electrically heated carpets
- Electrically heated mugs
- Evaporators
- Expansion tanks for central heating installations
- Extractor hoods for kitchens
- Fabric steamers
- Facial steamers / facial saunas
- Fairy lights for festive decoration / string lights for festive decoration
- Fans [air-conditioning]
- Fans [parts of air-conditioning installations]
- Feeding apparatus for heating boilers
- Fermentation apparatus for industrial purposes
- Filaments for electric lamps
- Filters for air conditioning
- Filters for drinking water
- Filters for water filtering apparatus
- Fireplaces, domestic
- Fittings, shaped, for furnaces / fittings, shaped, for ovens / shaped fittings for furnaces / shaped fittings for ovens
- Flaming torches
- Flare stacks for use in the oil industry
- Flues for heating boilers
- Flushing tanks
- Fog machines
- Food dehydrators, electric
- Food steamers, electric
- Footwarmers, electric or non-electric
- Forges, portable
- Fountains
- Freezers
- Friction lighters for igniting gas
- Fruit roasters
- Frying pans, electric
- Full-body drying apparatus
- Furnace ash boxes / ash pits for furnaces
- Furnace grates
- Furnaces, other than for laboratory use / ovens, other than for laboratory use
- Gas boilers
- Gas burners
- Gas condensers, other than parts of machines
- Gas lamps
- Gas lighters
- Gas scrubbers [parts of gas installations] / scrubbers [parts of gas installations]
- Gas scrubbing apparatus
- Germicidal burners
- Germicidal lamps for purifying air
- Glow sticks for lighting
- Glue pots, electric
- Glue-heating appliances
- Hair dryers / hair driers
- Hand drying apparatus for washrooms
- Head torches / portable headlamps
- Headlights for automobiles
- Hearths
- Heat accumulators
- Heat exchangers, other than parts of machines
- Heat guns
- Heat pumps
- Heat regenerators
- Heat-stabilized polypropylene pipes for heating installations
- Heated carving stations
- Heated display cabinets
- Heaters for baths
- Heaters for heating irons
- Heaters for vehicles
- Heaters, electric, for feeding bottles
- Heating and cooling apparatus for dispensing hot and cold beverages
- Heating apparatus
- Heating apparatus for defrosting vehicle windows
- Heating apparatus for solid, liquid or gaseous fuels
- Heating apparatus, electric
- Heating boilers
- Heating cushions, electric, not for medical purposes / heating pads, electric, not for medical purposes
- Heating elements
- Heating filaments, electric
- Heating installations
- Heating installations [water] / hot water heating installations
- Heating plates
- Hot air apparatus
- Hot air ovens
- Hot plates
- Hot water bottles
- Humidifiers
- Humidifiers for central heating radiators
- Hydrants
- Hydromassage bath apparatus
- Hydroponic growing systems
- Ice machines and apparatus
- Ice-cream making machines
- Immersion heaters
- Incandescent burners
- Incinerators
- Installations for processing nuclear fuel and nuclear moderating material
- Ionization apparatus for the treatment of air or water
- Kettles, electric
- Kiln furniture [supports]
- Kilns
- Kitchen ranges [ovens]
- Kitchen sinks incorporating integrated worktops
- Laboratory burners
- Laboratory lamps
- Lamp chimneys
- Lamp glasses
- Lamp globes / globes for lamps
- Lamp mantles / lamp casings
- Lamp reflectors
- Lamps
- Lampshade holders
- Lampshades
- Lanterns for lighting
- Laundry dryers, electric / laundry driers, electric
- Laundry room boilers / washing coppers
- Lava rocks for use in barbecue grills
- Level controlling valves in tanks
- Light bulbs
- Light bulbs for directional signals for vehicles
- Light bulbs, electric
- Light diffusers
- Light projectors
- Light-emitting diode [LED] light bulbs
- Light-emitting diode [LED] lighting apparatus
- Lighting apparatus and installations
- Lighting apparatus for vehicles
- Lighting installations for air vehicles
- Lights for automobiles / automobile lights
- Lights for vehicles
- Lightsticks, battery-operated
- Luminous house numbers
- Luminous tubes for lighting
- Magnesium filaments for lighting
- Malt roasters
- Membrane apparatus for generating gas
- Membrane filtration units for water treatment apparatus
- Membranes for reverse osmosis units
- Membranes for water filtering apparatus
- Microbubble generators for baths
- Microwave ovens [cooking apparatus]
- Microwave ovens for industrial purposes
- Milk cooling installations
- Miners' lamps
- Mixer taps for water pipes / mixer faucets for water pipes
- Motorcycle lights
- Multicookers
- Nail lamps
- Nuclear reactors
- Oil burners
- Oil lamps
- Oil-scrubbing apparatus
- Ornamental fountains
- Oven fittings made of fireclay
- Oxyhydrogen burners
- Ozonizers for sanitizing purposes / ozone generators for sanitizing purposes
- Pasteurisers
- Personal cooling packs, not for medical purposes
- Phytolamps for growing plants
- Pipes [parts of sanitary installations] / water-pipes for sanitary installations
- Plate warmers
- Pocket warmers
- Polymerisation installations
- Pounded rice cake making machines, electric, for household purposes
- Pressure water tanks
- Purification installations for sewage
- Radiator caps
- Radiators [heating]
- Radiators, electric
- Refining towers for distillation
- Refrigerating apparatus and machines
- Refrigerating appliances and installations
- Refrigerating cabinets
- Refrigerating chambers / walk-in refrigerators
- Refrigerating containers
- Refrigerating display cabinets
- Refrigerators
- Refrigerators, cooling apparatus and freezers for medical storage purposes
- Regulating accessories for water or gas apparatus and pipes
- Regulating and safety accessories for gas apparatus
- Regulating and safety accessories for gas pipes
- Regulating and safety accessories for water apparatus
- Reverse osmosis membrane filters for water treatment
- Reverse osmosis units
- Roasters
- Roasting apparatus / griddles [cooking appliances] / grills [cooking appliances]
- Roasting jacks
- Roasting spits
- Rotisseries
- Running lights for vehicles
- Safety accessories for water or gas apparatus and pipes
- Safety lamps
- Sanitary apparatus and installations
- Sauna bath installations
- Searchlights
- Shower cubicles / shower enclosures
- Showers*
- Sinks
- Smart light bulbs
- Smart refrigerators
- Smoke machines
- Smokers [cooking apparatus]
- Snow-making machines / snow cannons
- Sockets for electric lights
- Solar furnaces
- Solar thermal collectors [heating]
- Sous-vide cookers, electric
- Soya milk making machines, electric
- Spa baths [vessels]
- Sprayers being disinfectant apparatus
- Standard lamps / floor lamps
- Steam accumulators
- Steam boilers, other than parts of machines
- Steam cabinets for cleaning and freshening clothing
- Steam generating installations
- Sterilizers / sterilisers
- Sterilizers for medical instruments / sterilisers for medical instruments
- Stills*
- Stoves [heating apparatus]
- Street lamps
- Structural framework for ovens
- Swimming pool chlorinating apparatus
- Tajines, electric / tagines, electric
- Tanning beds
- Taps for pipes and pipelines / faucets for pipes and pipelines / spigots for pipes and pipelines / cocks for pipes and pipelines
- Taps* / faucets*
- Thermostatic valves [parts of heating installations]
- Tobacco roasters
- Toilet bowls
- Toilet seats
- Toilets
- Toilets, portable
- Tortilla presses, electric
- Turkish bath cabinets, portable
- Ultraviolet ray lamps, not for medical purposes
- Underfloor heating apparatus and installations
- Urinals being sanitary fixtures
- USB-powered cup heaters
- USB-powered hand warmers
- Vehicle headlights
- Vehicle reflectors
- Ventilation [air-conditioning] installations and apparatus
- Ventilation [air-conditioning] installations for vehicles
- Ventilation hoods
- Ventilation hoods for laboratories
- Venturi scrubbers
- Waffle irons, electric
- Warming pans
- Wash-hand basins [parts of sanitary installations] / wash-hand bowls [parts of sanitary installations]
- Washers for water taps / washers for water faucets
- Water conduits installations
- Water distribution installations
- Water filtering apparatus
- Water flushing installations / flushing apparatus
- Water heaters*
- Water intake apparatus
- Water purification installations
- Water purifying apparatus and machines
- Water softening apparatus and installations
- Water sterilizers / water sterilisers
- Water supply installations
- Watering installations, automatic
- Watering machines for agricultural purposes
- Whirlpool-jet apparatus
- Wicks adapted for oil stoves
- Wine cellars, electric
What Class 11 does not include
Several heat- and machine-related goods sit in other classes. Note these exclusions:
| Product | Correct class |
|---|---|
| Power generators | Class 7 |
| Air condensers (machine parts) | Class 7 |
| Laboratory ovens | Class 9 |
| Medical lamps and heating pads | Class 10 |
| Non-electric cooking utensils (pots, pans) | Class 21 |
| Electrically heated clothing | Class 25 |
The rule of thumb: an appliance or installation that lights, heats, cools, cooks or supplies water is Class 11, but a generator or machine part is Class 7, and a non-electric cooking pot is Class 21.
Who files in Class 11 in Nepal?
Class 11 is an active consumer class in Nepal. It is filed by solar-water-heater makers — a strong local market given Nepal's sunshine and power needs — lighting and LED brands, gas-stove and cooker manufacturers, fan and air-conditioner importers, water-filter and purifier brands, and sanitaryware suppliers. As homes upgrade, branded appliances increasingly seek protection here. Confirm your class with the NICE Class Finder.
How to register a trademark in Class 11
Search the register for earlier appliance marks, confirm Class 11 fits (and that a generator isn't really Class 7 or a cooking pot Class 21), prepare your mark and specification, and file with the Department of Industry. It examines, publishes for the 90-day opposition window, and registers for a renewable 7-year term. See how to register a trademark in Nepal and how to search first.
Do you need more than one class?
Frequently. An appliance business might file in Class 11 for the heaters and cookers and add Class 21 for non-electric kitchenware, or a services class for installation and repair. Because Nepal files one class per application with per-class fees, map your range first. See choosing the right class, and the neighbouring Class 10 (Medical Devices) and Class 12 (Vehicles).
A Nepal example
Take a Nepali solar-water-heater brand. Its heaters, solar collectors and water tanks are Class 11, where its trademark is registered. But if it also sells non-electric storage pots, those are Class 21, and any installation and maintenance service it offers is a Class 37 service. One trusted appliance brand can span Class 11 for the appliances, Class 21 for kitchenware, and Class 37 for installation — filing only in Class 11 leaves the service and kitchenware lines exposed. For a category as competitive as home appliances, the Class 11 filing is the anchor.
Getting Class 11 right: common mistakes
The defining Class 11 mistake is confusing appliances with machine parts. An air conditioner or cooker is a Class 11 appliance, but a power generator or an air condenser as a machine part is Class 7. A second common error is filing non-electric cooking utensils — pots, pans, kettles without a heating element — in Class 11, when they are Class 21 kitchenware.
A third pitfall involves heated or electric everyday goods: electrically heated textiles are Class 11, but electrically heated clothing worn on the body is Class 25. Specify the actual appliances you make rather than claiming the whole heading, so your Class 11 registration is precise, and add Class 21 or a services class where your range extends into kitchenware or installation.
Why precise Class 11 filing matters
Appliances are trust and safety products, and the market is crowded, so an accurate Class 11 registration pays off. Naming your real goods — "solar water heaters", "LED lighting", "gas cookers" — makes the application easier to register and clearer to enforce, and keeps the boundary clean against Class 7 machinery and Class 21 kitchenware. Because Nepal is first-to-file, the date you lodge secures your priority in a competitive appliance market. For an appliance brand, an early, precisely scoped Class 11 filing is what protects the name customers associate with reliability.
In short
Class 11 is the appliances class — anything that lights, heats, cools, cooks, ventilates or supplies water, from a solar water heater to an air conditioner to a toilet. The line to remember is appliance versus machine part: an appliance is Class 11, but a generator or condenser is Class 7, and a bare cooking pot is Class 21. Get that right, name your real goods, and file early, and your Class 11 registration will protect the name customers link with reliability.
Class 11 filing checklist
- Confirm your product is an appliance or installation, not a generator or a bare pot.
- Check the exclusions — Class 7, 9, 10, 21 or 25.
- Search the register for similar appliance marks.
- Draft a precise goods specification.
- Add Class 21 or a services class where relevant.
- File with the Department of Industry and track to registration.
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