Trademark Class 19 in Nepal — Building Materials (What It Covers & How to File)

NICE Class 19 covers non-metal building and construction materials — cement, bricks, stone, wood, glass and terra-cotta building materials — plus rigid non-metal pipes, asphalt and bitumen, transportable non-metal buildings, and non-metal monuments. It is a goods class for the construction sector. In Nepal you register a Class 19 trademark with the Department of Industry, and protection covers only the class you file in — with a key line: metal building materials are Class 6.

Key Takeaways

• Class 19 is the non-metal building-materials class — cement, bricks, stone, wood, tiles and rigid non-metal pipes.
• Metal building materials are Class 6; the material decides the class.
• It includes asphalt, pitch and bitumen, non-metal monuments, and transportable non-metal buildings.
• It excludes waterproofing preparations (Class 1), wood treatments (Class 2), and flooring like linoleum (Class 27).
• Nepal's cement, brick, stone and construction-materials makers file heavily in Class 19.
• Register with the Department of Industry for a renewable 7-year term.

What does Trademark Class 19 cover?

Class 19 covers materials, not of metal, for building and construction; rigid pipes, not of metal, for building; asphalt, pitch, tar and bitumen; transportable buildings, not of metal; and monuments, not of metal. The unifying idea is non-metal construction materials — the cement, bricks, stone, wood, glass and terra-cotta that buildings are made from, plus rigid non-metal piping and paving materials. Roofing that incorporates photovoltaic cells, and non-metal scaffolding, also fall here.

Full list of goods in Class 19

Below is the complete alphabetical list of Class 19 goods indications from the WIPO NICE Classification (13-2026 edition) — 269 entries in total. Use it to find the exact wording for your specification when you file in Nepal:

• Accordion doors, not of metal
• Acoustic panels, not of metal
• Adhesive tapes for road surface marking
• Advertisement columns, not of metal
• Agglomerated bagasses of cane [building material]
• Agglomerated cork for building
• Alabaster
• Alabaster glass for building
• Angle irons, not of metal
• Aquaria [structures]
• Aquarium gravel
• Aquarium sand
• Arbours [structures], not of metal
• Armour-plating, not of metal / armor-plating, not of metal
• Armoured doors, not of metal / armored doors, not of metal
• Artificial stone
• Asbestos cement
• Asbestos mortar
• Asphalt
• Asphalt paving
• Aviaries [structures], not of metal
• Balustrades, not of metal
• Beacons, not of metal, non-luminous
• Beams, not of metal / girders, not of metal
• Bicycle parking installations, not of metal
• Binding agents for making briquettes / binding agents for making stones
• Binding material for road repair
• Bird baths [structures], not of metal
• Bitumen
• Bitumen paper for building
• Bituminous coatings for roofing
• Bituminous products for building
• Brackets, not of metal, for building
• Branching pipes, not of metal
• Bricks
• Building glass
• Building materials with soundproofing qualities, not of metal / construction materials with soundproofing qualities, not of metal
• Building materials, not of metal / construction materials, not of metal
• Building panels, not of metal
• Building paper
• Building stone
• Building timber / lumber
• Buildings, not of metal
• Buildings, transportable, not of metal
• Burial vaults, not of metal
• Busts of stone, concrete or marble
• Cabanas, not of metal
• Caissons for construction work under water
• Calcareous marl
• Casement windows, not of metal
• Cask wood / stave wood
• Ceilings, not of metal
• Cement for blast furnaces
• Cement for furnaces
• Cement posts
• Cement slabs
• Cement*
• Chicken-houses, not of metal
• Chimney cowls, not of metal
• Chimney pots, not of metal
• Chimney shafts, not of metal
• Chimneys, not of metal
• Cladding, not of metal, for building
• Clay*
• Clinker ballast
• Coal tar
• Coatings [building materials]
• Commemorative statuary cups of stone, concrete or marble
• Concrete
• Concrete building elements
• Cornices, not of metal
• Crash barriers, not of metal, for roads
• Diving boards, not of metal
• Door frames, not of metal / door casings, not of metal
• Door panels, not of metal
• Doors, not of metal*
• Drain pipes, not of metal
• Duckboards, not of metal
• Ducts, not of metal, for ventilating and air-conditioning installations
• Earth for bricks
• Enamelled glass, for building
• Fair huts
• Felt for building
• Fences, not of metal
• Figurines of stone, concrete or marble / statuettes of stone, concrete or marble
• Firebricks / refractory bricks
• Fireclay / grog [fired refractory material]
• Fireplace mantles, not of metal
• Fireproof cement coatings
• Firestone for building
• Flagpoles [structures], not of metal
• Flashing, not of metal, for building
• Floating docks, not of metal, for mooring boats
• Floating floor boards, not of metal
• Floor tiles, not of metal
• Floors, not of metal
• Folding doors, not of metal
• Foundry moulds, not of metal / foundry molds, not of metal
• Framework, not of metal, for building
• Furrings of wood
• Gates, not of metal
• Geotextiles
• Glass granules for road marking / glass granules for marking out roads
• Granite
• Grave slabs, not of metal / tomb slabs, not of metal
• Gravel
• Gravestones / tombstones
• Greenhouse frames, not of metal
• Greenhouses, transportable, not of metal
• Gutter pipes, not of metal
• Gypsum [building material]
• Hips for roofing
• Horticultural frames, not of metal / cold frames, not of metal
• Huts
• Insect screens, not of metal
• Insulating glass for building
• Jalousies, not of metal
• Joists, not of metal
• Laths, not of metal
• Latticework, not of metal / trellises, not of metal
• Lengthening pieces, not of metal, for chimneys
• Letter boxes of masonry
• Lime*
• Limestone / calcareous stone
• Linings, not of metal, for building
• Lintels, not of metal
• Luminous paving blocks
• Macadam
• Magnesia cement
• Manhole covers, not of metal
• Manufactured timber
• Marble
• Masts [poles], not of metal
• Materials for making and coating roads
• Memorial plaques, not of metal
• Monuments, not of metal
• Mooring bollards, not of metal
• Mortar for building / grout
• Mosaics for building
• Mouldable wood / moldable wood
• Mouldings, not of metal, for building / moldings, not of metal, for building
• Mouldings, not of metal, for cornices / moldings, not of metal, for cornices
• Mounting frames, not of metal, for solar panels
• Non-luminous and non-mechanical signs, not of metal
• Olivine for building
• Outdoor blinds, not of metal and not of textile
• Paint spraying booths, not of metal
• Palings, not of metal / palisading, not of metal
• Pantiles, not of metal
• Paperboard for building / building cardboard
• Parquet floor boards
• Parquet flooring
• Partitions, not of metal
• Paving blocks, not of metal
• Paving slabs, not of metal
• Penstock pipes, not of metal
• Perches
• Pigsties, not of metal
• Pilings, not of metal / sheet piles, not of metal
• Pillars, not of metal, for building
• Pitch
• Planks of wood for building
• Plaster*
• Plastic landscape edgings
• Plastic profiles for building
• Plate glass [windows] for building
• Platforms, prefabricated, not of metal
• Play sand
• Plywood
• Porches [structures], not of metal
• Porphyry [stone]
• Posts, not of metal
• Posts, not of metal, for power lines / poles, not of metal, for power lines
• Potters' clay
• Prefabricated houses [ready-to-assemble], not of metal
• Prize cups of stone, concrete or marble
• Props, not of metal
• Quartz for building
• Railway sleepers, not of metal / railroad ties, not of metal
• Raw chalk
• Reeds for building
• Refractory construction materials, not of metal
• Reinforcing materials, not of metal, for building
• Rigid pipes, not of metal, for building
• Road coating materials
• Road marking sheets and strips of synthetic material
• Road signs, non-luminous and non-mechanical, not of metal
• Rock crystal
• Rocket launching platforms, not of metal
• Roof coverings, not of metal
• Roof flashing, not of metal
• Roof gutters, not of metal
• Roofing shingles
• Roofing slates
• Roofing tiles, not of metal
• Roofing, not of metal
• Roofing, not of metal, incorporating photovoltaic cells
• Rubber bearings for seismic isolation of buildings
• Rubble
• Safety glass
• Sand, except foundry sand
• Sandstone for building
• Sandstone pipes
• Sawn timber
• Scaffolding, not of metal
• Scantlings [carpentry]
• Schists
• Shuttering, not of metal, for concrete
• Shutters, not of metal
• Signalling panels, non-luminous and non-mechanical, not of metal
• Silica [quartz]
• Sills, not of metal
• Silos, not of metal
• Silver sand
• Skating rinks [structures], not of metal
• Slabs, not of metal, for building
• Slag [building material]
• Slag stone / clinker stone
• Slate powder
• Slate*
• Smart glass for building
• Soundproof booths, transportable, not of metal
• Stables, not of metal
• Stained-glass windows
• Stair-treads [steps], not of metal
• Staircases, not of metal
• Statues of stone, concrete or marble
• Stone*
• Street gutters, not of metal
• Stringers [parts of staircases], not of metal
• Swimming pools [structures], not of metal
• Swing doors, not of metal
• Tanks of masonry
• Tar
• Tarred strips for building
• Telegraph posts, not of metal
• Telephone booths, not of metal / telephone boxes, not of metal
• Terra-cotta [building material]
• Tile floorings, not of metal
• Tiles, not of metal, for building
• Tomb or grave enclosures, not of metal / grave or tomb enclosures, not of metal
• Tombs [monuments], not of metal
• Tombs, not of metal
• Tombstone plaques, not of metal
• Tombstone stelae, not of metal
• Tufa
• Turnstiles, not of metal
• Veneer wood
• Vinyl siding
• Wainscotting, not of metal
• Wall claddings, not of metal, for building
• Wall linings, not of metal, for building
• Wall tiles, not of metal
• Water-pipes, not of metal
• Window frames, not of metal
• Window glass for building
• Window glass, other than vehicle window glass
• Window ventlights, not of metal
• Windows, not of metal
• Wood for making household utensils
• Wood panelling
• Wood paving
• Wood pulp board for building
• Wood veneers / veneers
• Wood, semi-worked
• Wooden floor boards
• Works of art of stone, concrete or marble
• Works of stonemasonry
• Xylolith

What Class 19 does not include

Materials and treatments around construction sit in several classes. Note these exclusions:

The rule of thumb: a non-metal building material is Class 19, but metal materials are Class 6, treatments and preservatives are Class 1 or 2, and floor coverings are Class 27.

Who files in Class 19 in Nepal?

Class 19 is a cornerstone class for Nepal's construction boom. It is filed by cement manufacturers — a major branded market in Nepal — brick and block makers, stone and marble suppliers, tile and building-glass brands, rigid PVC-pipe makers, and prefabricated non-metal-structure suppliers. Cement especially is a fiercely brand-driven category, making both registration and a clearance search essential. Confirm your class with the NICE Class Finder.

How to register a trademark in Class 19

Search the register for earlier building-materials marks, confirm Class 19 fits (and that a metal material isn't really Class 6), 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 building-materials business might file in Class 19 for cement and tiles and add Class 6 for metal materials or a construction-services class. Because Nepal files one class per application with per-class fees, map your range first. See choosing the right class, and the neighbouring Class 18 (Leather & Bags) and Class 20 (Furniture).

A Nepal example

Take a Nepali cement brand. Its cement, along with any bricks, tiles or rigid PVC pipe it makes, is Class 19, where the brand is registered. But metal roofing sheets or rebar it supplies are Class 6, and any construction service it offers is a Class 37 service. One building-materials brand can span Class 19 for non-metal materials, Class 6 for metal, and Class 37 for construction — filing only in Class 19 leaves the metal and service lines exposed. In cement, where the brand drives the sale, the Class 19 filing is essential.

Getting Class 19 right: common mistakes

The defining Class 19 mistake is the metal-versus-non-metal line. Non-metal building materials are Class 19, but metal ones — steel, metal pipes, metal roofing — are Class 6. Suppliers with mixed ranges often file in one class and leave the rest exposed. A second common error is filing treatments and preservatives in Class 19: waterproofing is Class 1, and wood paints and coatings are Class 2.

A third pitfall involves pipes and flooring: rigid non-metal building pipe is Class 19, but sanitary-installation pipe is Class 11, and floor coverings like linoleum are Class 27. Specify the actual materials you make rather than claiming the whole heading, so your Class 19 registration is precise, and add Class 6 or a services class where your range extends there.

Why precise Class 19 filing matters

In construction materials — especially cement — the brand is the buying signal, and the market is crowded, so precision protects real value. Naming your real goods — "cement", "clay bricks", "ceramic tiles" — makes the application easier to register and clearer to enforce, and keeps the boundary clean against Class 6 metal materials and Class 1/2 treatments. Because Nepal is first-to-file, the date you lodge secures your priority in a construction-driven economy. For a building-materials brand, an early, precisely scoped Class 19 filing protects a name specified on every site.

In short

Class 19 is the non-metal building-materials class — cement, bricks, stone, wood, tiles, rigid non-metal pipe, and non-metal structures. The line to remember is material: non-metal is Class 19, but metal building materials are Class 6, treatments are Class 1 or 2, and floor coverings are Class 27. Get that right, name your real goods, and file early to protect a brand specified on Nepal's construction sites. In a category like cement, where buyers choose by name, that early filing is the difference between owning your brand and watching a competitor register around it.

Class 19 filing checklist

• Confirm your material is non-metal — metal materials are Class 6.
• Check the exclusions — Class 6, 1, 2, 11, 17 or 27.
• Search the register for similar building-materials marks.
• Draft a precise goods specification.
• Add Class 6 or a construction-services class where relevant.
• File with the Department of Industry and track to registration.

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Register your Class 19 trademark

Protect your cement, stone or building-materials brand. Find your class with the NICE Class Finder, screen with the Conflict Checker, then register your trademark with our team. Talk to an IP expert if your range spans non-metal and metal materials and construction services.