Trademark Class 43 in Nepal — Restaurants, Cafés & Hotels (What It Covers, Full List & How to File)

NICE Class 43 covers services for providing food and drink, and temporary accommodation — restaurants, cafés, bars, hotels and lodges. It is a services class central to Nepal's tourism and hospitality economy. You register a Class 43 trademark with the Department of Industry, and it protects your service brand — with a key line: serving food and drink or providing lodging is Class 43, but the food product itself is a food goods class and hotel management for others is Class 35.

Key Takeaways

• Class 43 is the hospitality class — restaurants, cafés, bars, catering, hotels and temporary accommodation.
• Serving food and drink or providing lodging is Class 43; the packaged food product is a food goods class (29–33).
• It includes catering, self-service and take-away restaurants, and holiday and lodge accommodation.
• It excludes business management of hotels (Class 35), residential real estate (Class 36), and travel booking (Class 39).
• Nepal's restaurants, cafés, hotels and trekking lodges file in Class 43.
• Register with the Department of Industry for a renewable 7-year term.

What does Trademark Class 43 cover?

Class 43 covers services for providing food and drink; and temporary accommodation. The unifying idea is hospitality — serving meals and drinks, and offering places to stay temporarily. It reaches from restaurants, cafés and bars to catering and personal-chef services, and from hotels and motels to holiday camps and trekking lodges, plus the reservation and reception services around them.

Full list of services in Class 43

The complete list of Class 43 service indications (WIPO NICE 13-2026):

• Accommodation bureau services [hotels, boarding houses]
• Animal boarding; boarding for animals; animal pound services
• Bar services; hookah lounge services
• Boarding house bookings; boarding house services
• Booking and arranging of access to airport lounges; providing airport lounges
• Café services; cafeteria services; canteen services
• Cake decorating; decorating of food; food sculpting
• Day-nursery [crèche] services
• Food and drink catering
• Food reviewing services [provision of information about food and drinks]
• Ghost kitchen services
• Holiday camp services [lodging]
• Hotel accommodation services; hotel reservations; motel services
• Personal chef services
• Providing campground facilities
• Providing information and advice in relation to the preparation of meals
• Reception services for temporary accommodation [conferment of keys; management of arrivals and departures]
• Rental of chairs, tables, table linen and glassware
• Rental of cooking apparatus; rental of hot pots; rental of drinking water dispensers; rental of kitchen sinks
• Rental of furniture; rental of office furniture; rental of lighting apparatus; rental of portable dressing rooms; rental of tents; rental of transportable buildings
• Rental of holiday/vacation accommodation; rental of temporary accommodation; rental of meeting rooms
• Rental of robots for preparing beverages
• Restaurant services; self-service restaurant services; take-away restaurant services; snack-bar services
• Retirement home services
• Temporary accommodation provided by halfway houses; temporary accommodation reservations
• Tourist home services
• Udon and soba restaurant services; washoku restaurant services

What Class 43 does not include

The rule of thumb: serving food/drink or providing lodging is Class 43, but managing a hotel for its owner is Class 35, long-term real estate is Class 36, and travel booking is Class 39.

Who files in Class 43 in Nepal?

Class 43 is a cornerstone class for Nepal's tourism and hospitality economy. It is filed by restaurants, cafés and bars, catering companies, hotels, resorts and trekking lodges, homestays and guesthouses, and campground operators. For a restaurant or hotel whose name is its whole identity, Class 43 protects that brand against copycats. Confirm your class with the NICE Class Finder.

How to register a trademark in Class 43

Search the register for earlier hospitality marks, confirm Class 43 fits (and that food manufacturing isn't really Class 40 or hotel management Class 35), prepare your mark and a precise service 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.

Do you need more than one class?

Sometimes. A restaurant serving food (Class 43) that also sells its own packaged sauces or snacks (Class 29/30), or a hotel offering event and conference services (Class 41), needs multiple classes. Because Nepal files one class per application with per-class fees, map your business first. See choosing the right class, and the neighbouring Class 42 (IT & Software) and Class 44 (Medical, Beauty & Agriculture).

A Nepal example

Take a Nepali café and restaurant brand. Its restaurant, café and catering services are Class 43, where its name is registered. But if it also sells its own bottled sauces or roasted coffee in stores, those products are Class 30, and any branded merchandise is a goods class too. One hospitality brand can span Class 43 for the venue service and Class 30 for its packaged products — filing only in Class 43 leaves the retail products exposed. For restaurants building a product line, the service-versus-product split matters.

Getting Class 43 right: common mistakes

The defining Class 43 mistake is confusing the service with the food product. Serving meals is a Class 43 service, but a packaged food or drink the venue sells in shops is a food goods class (29–33). A second common error is filing hotel management in Class 43 — running a hotel for guests is Class 43, but managing a hotel business for its owner is Class 35.

A third pitfall is accommodation types: temporary/holiday lodging is Class 43, but long-term residential real estate is Class 36, and travel booking is Class 39. Specify your real services precisely, so your Class 43 registration is clear, and add a food goods class or Class 41 where your business genuinely extends there.

Why precise Class 43 filing matters

In hospitality, the name is the brand, Nepal's tourism market is crowded, and popular restaurant and hotel names get copied fast, so a precise, early registration protects real value. Naming your real services — "restaurant services", "café services", "hotel accommodation services" — makes the application easier to register and clearer to enforce. Because Nepal is first-to-file, the date you lodge secures your priority before a copycat registers your venue name. For a restaurant, café or hotel brand, an early, precise Class 43 filing is foundational.

In short

Class 43 is the hospitality class — restaurants, cafés, bars, catering, hotels and temporary accommodation. The line to remember: serving food/drink or providing lodging is Class 43, but the packaged food product is a food goods class and hotel management for owners is Class 35. Get that right, specify precisely, and file early to protect a hospitality brand.

Class 43 filing checklist

• Confirm you're serving food/drink or providing lodging — the food product is a goods class.
• Check the exclusions — Class 35, 36, 37, 39, 40 or 44.
• Write a precise service specification and search the register.
• Add a food goods class (29–33) or Class 41 where your business extends there.
• File with the Department of Industry and track to registration.

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Register your Class 43 trademark

Protect your restaurant, café, bar or hotel 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 hospitality brand also sells its own products.