NICE Class 12 covers vehicles and apparatus for locomotion by land, air or water — cars, motorcycles, bicycles, e-vehicles, boats and aircraft — along with vehicle engines, transmission parts and components. It is a goods class. In Nepal you register a Class 12 trademark with the Department of Industry, and protection covers only the class you file in — with a key nuance: a vehicle engine is Class 12, but a non-vehicle engine is Class 7.
Key Takeaways
- Class 12 is the vehicles class — cars, motorcycles, bicycles, e-vehicles, boats and aircraft, and their parts.
- It includes engines and transmission components made for land vehicles, plus parts like bumpers and steering wheels.
- Engines not for land vehicles are Class 7; a vehicle engine is Class 12 — the distinction matters.
- It excludes many bolt-on accessories — batteries (Class 9), lights (Class 11), car mats (Class 27).
- Nepal's EV assemblers, bicycle and e-rickshaw makers and auto-parts brands file in Class 12.
- Register with the Department of Industry for a renewable 7-year term.
What does Trademark Class 12 cover?
Class 12 covers vehicles and apparatus for locomotion by land, air or water. That includes cars, motorcycles, bicycles, electric vehicles, trucks, buses, boats and aircraft, together with engines and transmission components made for land vehicles and vehicle parts such as bumpers, windscreens, steering wheels and tyre treads. The unifying idea is anything that moves people or goods, plus the powertrain and structural parts specific to those vehicles.
Full list of goods in Class 12
Below is the complete alphabetical list of Class 12 goods indications from the WIPO NICE Classification (13-2026 edition) — 330 entries in total. Use it to find the exact wording for your specification when you file in Nepal:
- Adhesive rubber patches for repairing inner tubes
- Aerial conveyors
- Aerial ropeways for handling loads
- Aeronautical apparatus, machines and appliances
- Aeroplanes
- Air bags [safety devices for automobiles]
- Air cushion vehicles
- Air pumps [vehicle accessories]
- Air vehicles
- Aircraft
- Aircraft carriers
- Airships / dirigible balloons
- All-terrain vehicles
- Ambulances
- Amphibious airplanes
- Amphibious vehicles
- Anti-glare devices for vehicles* / anti-dazzle devices for vehicles*
- Anti-skid chains
- Anti-theft alarms for vehicles
- Anti-theft devices for vehicles
- Armoured vehicles / armored vehicles
- Ashtrays for automobiles
- Atmospheric diving suits
- Automobile bodies
- Automobile chassis
- Automobile tyres / automobile tires
- Autonomous cars / self-driving cars
- Autonomous land vehicles
- Autonomous underwater vehicles for seabed inspections
- Axle journals
- Axles for vehicles
- Bags adapted for pushchairs / bags adapted for strollers
- Balance weights for vehicle wheels
- Bands for wheel hubs
- Barges
- Baskets adapted for bicycles
- Battleships
- Bearings [parts of vehicles]
- Bellows for articulated buses
- Bicycle bells
- Bicycle brakes
- Bicycle chains
- Bicycle cranks
- Bicycle frames
- Bicycle handlebars
- Bicycle kickstands
- Bicycle motors
- Bicycle mudguards
- Bicycle pedals
- Bicycle saddles
- Bicycle trailers
- Bicycle tyres / bicycle tires
- Bicycle wheels
- Bicycles*
- Boat hooks
- Boats
- Bodies for vehicles
- Bogies for railway cars
- Brake discs for vehicles
- Brake linings for vehicles
- Brake pads for automobiles
- Brake segments for vehicles
- Brake shoes for vehicles
- Brakes for vehicles
- Buffers for railway rolling stock
- Bumpers for automobiles
- Cable transport apparatus and installations
- Caissons [vehicles]
- Camera drones / photography drones
- Camping cars / motor homes
- Canoes
- Caps for vehicle fuel tanks
- Caravans
- Cars / motor cars / automobiles
- Cars for cable transport installations
- Carts*
- Casings for pneumatic tyres / casings for pneumatic tires
- Casters for trolleys [vehicles] / casters for carts [vehicles]
- Casting carriages / casting cars / ladle carriages / ladle cars
- Chairlifts
- Cigar lighters for automobiles
- Civilian drones
- Cleaning trolleys
- Cleats [nautical]
- Clips adapted for fastening automobile parts to automobile bodies
- Clutch linings for land vehicles
- Clutches for land vehicles
- Concrete mixing vehicles
- Connecting rods for land vehicles, other than parts of motors and engines
- Couplings for land vehicles
- Covers for vehicle steering wheels
- Crankcases for land vehicle components, other than for engines
- Cup holders for vehicles
- Davits for boats
- Delivery drones
- Delivery tricycles / carrier tricycles
- Dining carriages / dining cars
- Disengaging gear for boats
- Diving bells
- Doors for vehicles
- Dredgers [boats]
- Dress guards for bicycles
- Drive chains for land vehicles
- Driving motors for land vehicles
- Ejector seats for aircraft
- Electric bicycles
- Electric vehicles
- Engine mounts for land vehicles
- Engines for land vehicles / motors for land vehicles
- Evacuation chairs
- Fenders for ships
- Ferry boats
- Fire boats
- Fire engines
- Fishing trolleys
- Fitted dashboard covers for vehicles
- Fitted footmuffs for prams / fitted footmuffs for baby carriages
- Fitted footmuffs for pushchairs / fitted footmuffs for strollers
- Fitted pushchair mosquito nets / fitted stroller mosquito nets
- Flanges for railway wheel tyres / flanges for railway wheel tires
- Forklift trucks
- Freewheels for land vehicles
- Fuel tanks for vehicles
- Funiculars
- Funnels for locomotives
- Funnels for ships
- Gear boxes for land vehicles
- Gearing for land vehicles
- Gears for bicycles
- Golf carts [vehicles] / golf cars [vehicles]
- Gyrocopters
- Handcars
- Handling carts
- Head-rests for vehicle seats
- Headlight wipers
- Helicams
- Helicopters
- Hoods [folding roofs] for vehicles / tops [folding roofs] for vehicles
- Hoods for vehicle engines / bonnets for vehicle engines
- Horns for vehicles
- Horse trailers
- Horse vans
- Horse-drawn carriages
- Hose carts
- Hot air balloons
- Hub caps
- Hubs for bicycle wheels / bicycle wheel hubs
- Hubs for vehicle wheels / vehicle wheel hubs
- Hydraulic circuits for vehicles
- Hydrogen-fueled cars
- Hydroplanes
- Inclined ways for boats
- Inner tubes for bicycle tyres / inner tubes for bicycle tires
- Inner tubes for pneumatic tyres / inner tubes for pneumatic tires
- Jet engines for land vehicles
- Kayaks
- Kick sledges
- Kickbikes
- Launches
- Life-saving rafts
- Lifeboats
- Locomotives
- Lorries / trucks
- Lug nuts for vehicle wheels
- Luggage carriers for vehicles
- Luggage nets for vehicles
- Masts for boats
- Military drones
- Military vehicles for transport
- Mine cars
- Mine cart wheels
- Mobility scooters
- Mopeds
- Motor buses
- Motor coaches
- Motor racing cars
- Motor scooters
- Motorcycle chains
- Motorcycle engines
- Motorcycle frames
- Motorcycle handlebars
- Motorcycle kickstands
- Motorcycle saddles
- Motorcycles
- Motorized skateboards
- Motors, electric, for land vehicles
- Mudguards
- Non-skid devices for vehicle tyres / non-skid devices for vehicle tires
- Oars
- Paddles for canoes
- Panniers adapted for bicycles
- Panniers adapted for motorcycles
- Parachutes
- Pet safety barriers in the nature of vehicle partitions
- Pet strollers
- Pneumatic or hydraulic linear actuators for land vehicles
- Pneumatic tyres / pneumatic tires
- Pontoons
- Portholes
- Prams / baby carriages
- Propulsion mechanisms for land vehicles
- Pulks for transportation
- Pumps for bicycle tyres / pumps for bicycle tires
- Push scooters [vehicles]
- Pushchair covers / stroller covers
- Pushchair hoods / stroller hoods
- Pushchairs / strollers
- Railway carriages
- Railway couplings
- Rearview mirrors
- Reduction gears for land vehicles
- Refrigerated railway wagons
- Refrigerated vehicles
- Remote control vehicles, other than toys
- Remotely operated vehicles for underwater inspections
- Repair outfits for inner tubes
- Rescue boats
- Rescue sleds
- Reversing alarms for vehicles
- Rims for bicycle wheels / bicycle wheel rims
- Rims for vehicle wheels / vehicle wheel rims
- Robotic cars
- Roll cage trolleys
- Rolling stock for funicular railways
- Rolling stock for railways
- Rooftop tents adapted for vehicles
- Rowlocks / oarlocks
- Rubbish trucks / garbage trucks
- Rudders
- Saddle covers for bicycles
- Saddle covers for motorcycles
- Saddlebags adapted for bicycles
- Safety belts for vehicle seats
- Safety seats for children, for vehicles
- Screw-propellers
- Screw-propellers for boats
- Screws [propellers] for ships
- Sculls / stern oars
- Seaplanes
- Seat covers for vehicles
- Security harness for vehicle seats
- Self-balancing boards
- Self-balancing electric unicycles
- Self-balancing scooters
- Self-driving robots for delivery
- Ship hulls
- Ships
- Shock absorbers for automobiles
- Shock absorbing springs for vehicles
- Shopping trolleys / shopping carts
- Side cars
- Side view mirrors for vehicles
- Signal arms for vehicles
- Ski carriers for cars
- Ski lifts
- Sleeping berths for vehicles
- Sleeping cars
- Sleighs [vehicles]
- Snow-going vehicles
- Snowmobiles
- Solid tyres for vehicle wheels / solid tires for vehicle wheels
- Space vehicles
- Spare wheel covers / spare tire covers / spare tyre covers
- Spars for ships
- Spikes for tyres / spikes for tires / studs for tyres / studs for tires
- Spoilers for vehicles
- Spoke clips for wheels
- Spokes for bicycle wheels / bicycle wheel spokes
- Sports cars
- Sprinkling trucks
- Steering gears for ships
- Steering wheels for vehicles
- Straddle carriers
- Sun-blinds adapted for automobiles
- Surf skis
- Surveillance towers specially adapted for vehicles
- Suspension shock absorbers for vehicles
- Swamp-going vehicles
- Tailboard lifts [parts of land vehicles] / elevating tailgates [parts of land vehicles] / power tailgates [parts of land vehicles]
- Telpher railways [cable cars] / cable cars
- Tilt trucks
- Tilting-carts
- Timbers [frames] for ships
- Tipping apparatus [parts of railway wagons]
- Tipping bodies for lorries / tipping bodies for trucks
- Torque converters for land vehicles
- Torsion bars for vehicles
- Tow trucks / wreckers for transport
- Tractors
- Trailer hitches for vehicles
- Trailers [vehicles]
- Trailers for transporting bicycles
- Tramcars
- Transmission chains for land vehicles
- Transmission mechanisms for land vehicles
- Transmission shafts for land vehicles
- Treads for retreading tyres / treads for retreading tires
- Treads for vehicles [tractor type] / treads for vehicles [roller belts]
- Tricycles
- Trolleys*
- Trucks incorporating a crane
- Tubeless tyres for bicycles / tubeless tires for bicycles
- Turbines for land vehicles
- Two-wheeled trolleys / luggage trucks / sack-barrows
- Tyre mousse inserts / tire mousse inserts
- Tyres for snow ploughs / tires for snow ploughs
- Tyres for vehicle wheels / tires for vehicle wheels
- Undercarriages for vehicles
- Upholstery for vehicles
- Valves for vehicle tyres / valves for vehicle tires
- Vans [vehicles]
- Vehicle bonnet pins / vehicle hood pins
- Vehicle bumpers
- Vehicle chassis
- Vehicle covers [shaped]
- Vehicle joysticks
- Vehicle running boards
- Vehicle seats
- Vehicle suspension springs
- Vehicle wheel spokes
- Vehicle wheels
- Vehicles for locomotion by land, air, water or rail
- Water scooters [personal watercraft]
- Water vehicles
- Wheelbarrows
- Wheelchairs
- Windows for vehicles
- Windscreens / windshields
- Windshield wipers / windscreen wipers
- Yachts
What Class 12 does not include
Many vehicle-related goods are accessories classified by their own function. Note these exclusions:
| Product | Correct class |
|---|---|
| Metal railway track material | Class 6 |
| Engines and motors not for land vehicles | Class 7 |
| Vehicle batteries and electronics | Class 9 |
| Vehicle lights | Class 11 |
| Car carpets and mats | Class 27 |
| Toy vehicles, tricycles and scooters | Class 28 |
The rule of thumb: the vehicle and its structural/powertrain parts are Class 12, but bolt-on accessories — batteries, lights, mats — are classified by their own function, and toy vehicles are Class 28.
Who files in Class 12 in Nepal?
Class 12 is increasingly important in Nepal thanks to the electric-vehicle boom. It is filed by EV assemblers and importers, e-rickshaw and e-scooter makers, bicycle manufacturers, auto-parts and tyre brands, and commercial-vehicle bodybuilders. As Nepal pushes electric mobility, home-grown vehicle and parts brands rely on Class 12 to protect their names. Confirm your class with the NICE Class Finder.
How to register a trademark in Class 12
Search the register for earlier vehicle and parts marks, confirm Class 12 fits (and that an accessory isn't really Class 9, 11 or 27), 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?
Often. A vehicle brand might file in Class 12 for the vehicle and add Class 9 for its batteries or telematics, Class 37 for servicing, or Class 35 for a dealership. Because Nepal files one class per application with per-class fees, map your range first. See choosing the right class, and the neighbouring Class 11 (Lighting & Appliances) and Class 13 (Firearms & Fireworks).
A Nepal example
Take a Nepali electric-scooter brand. The scooters themselves and their transmission parts are Class 12, where the brand is registered. But the lithium batteries that power them are Class 9, the charging service or dealership is Class 35 or 37, and any vehicle lights sold separately are Class 11. One EV brand can span Class 12 for the vehicles, Class 9 for batteries, and a services class for dealership or servicing — filing only in Class 12 leaves the battery and service lines unprotected. In a fast-growing EV market, that gap is exactly what a competitor exploits.
Getting Class 12 right: common mistakes
The defining Class 12 mistake is the engine distinction. An engine made for a land vehicle is Class 12, but an engine for anything else — an industrial machine, a generator — is Class 7. Filing a vehicle engine in Class 7 (or a machine engine in Class 12) is a frequent error. A second common mistake is filing vehicle accessories in Class 12: batteries are Class 9, lights Class 11, and mats Class 27, even though all fit a vehicle.
A third pitfall is toy versus real vehicles: a real bicycle or scooter is Class 12, but a toy tricycle or scooter is Class 28. Specify the actual vehicles or parts you make rather than claiming the whole heading, so your Class 12 registration is precise, and add the accessory or service classes your business genuinely needs.
Why precise Class 12 filing matters
Vehicles are high-value, safety-sensitive purchases where the brand carries real weight, so an accurate Class 12 registration is worth getting right. Naming your real goods — "electric scooters", "bicycles", "vehicle transmission parts" — makes the application easier to register and clearer to enforce, and keeps the boundary clean against Class 7 engines and Class 9/11/27 accessories. Because Nepal is first-to-file, the date you lodge secures your priority as the EV market expands. For a vehicle or parts brand, an early, precisely scoped Class 12 filing is foundational brand protection.
In short
Class 12 is the vehicles class — cars, motorcycles, bicycles, EVs, boats and aircraft, plus vehicle-specific engines and structural parts. The lines to remember: a vehicle engine is Class 12 but a non-vehicle engine is Class 7, and bolt-on accessories like batteries (Class 9), lights (Class 11) and mats (Class 27) are classified by their own function. Get that right, name your real goods, and file early to protect your brand in a fast-growing EV market.
Class 12 filing checklist
- Confirm your product is a vehicle or a vehicle-specific engine/part.
- Check the exclusions — Class 7 engines, Class 9 batteries, Class 11 lights, Class 27 mats, Class 28 toys.
- Search the register for similar vehicle and parts marks.
- Draft a precise goods specification.
- Add accessory or service classes (9, 11, 35, 37) where relevant.
- File with the Department of Industry and track to registration.
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