NICE Class 7 covers machines, machine tools and power-operated tools; motors and engines except for land vehicles; machine coupling and transmission components except for land vehicles; agricultural implements other than hand-operated hand tools; incubators for eggs; and automatic vending machines. It is a goods class for machinery and industrial equipment. In Nepal you register a Class 7 trademark with the Department of Industry, and protection covers only the class you file in.
Key Takeaways
- Class 7 is the machines class — industrial machines, machine tools, power tools, and non-vehicle motors and engines.
- It includes agricultural implements (not hand tools), industrial robots, 3D printers, pumps and generators.
- The big carve-out: motors and engines for land vehicles are excluded (they fall in Class 12).
- It excludes hand tools (Class 8), and AI-driven robots such as humanoid or surgical robots (often Class 9 or 10).
- Nepal's agricultural-machinery and industrial-equipment sectors file in Class 7.
- Register with the Department of Industry for a renewable 7-year term.
What does Trademark Class 7 cover?
Class 7 covers machines, machine tools and power-operated tools; motors and engines (except for land vehicles); machine coupling and transmission components (except for land vehicles); agricultural implements other than hand-operated hand tools; incubators for eggs; and automatic vending machines. The unifying idea is powered machinery and its components — equipment that does mechanical work, along with the motors that drive it, as long as those motors are not for land vehicles.
Full list of goods in Class 7
Below is the complete alphabetical list of Class 7 goods indications from the WIPO NICE Classification (13-2026 edition) — 597 entries in total. Use it to find the exact wording for your specification when you file in Nepal:
- 3D bioprinters
- 3D printers
- 3D printing pens
- Acetylene cleaning apparatus
- Adhesive bands for pulleys
- Aerating pumps for aquaria
- Aerocondensers
- Aeronautical engines
- Aeroplane engines
- Agitators
- Agricultural elevators
- Agricultural harvesting robots
- Agricultural implements, other than hand-operated
- Agricultural machines
- Air brushes for applying colour
- Air condensers
- Air cushion devices for moving loads
- Air pumps [garage installations]
- Air suction machines
- Alternators
- Anti-friction bearings for machines / anti-friction pads for machines
- Anti-pollution devices for motors and engines
- Apparatus for aerating beverages
- Apparatus for aerating water
- Apparatus for drawing up beer under pressure
- Aprons [parts of machines] / carriage aprons
- Atomising machines / atomizing machines / spraying machines
- Automatic grapnels for marine purposes
- Automatic tool changers for industrial robots
- Axles for machines
- Ball rings for bearings
- Ball-bearings
- Basket presses
- Bearing brackets for machines
- Bearings [parts of machines]
- Bearings for transmission shafts
- Beaters, electric
- Beating machines
- Beer pumps
- Bellows [parts of machines]
- Belt conveyors
- Belts for conveyors
- Belts for machines
- Belts for motors and engines
- Bending machines
- Beverage preparation machines, electromechanical
- Bicycle assembling machines
- Bicycle dynamos
- Binding apparatus for hay / trussing apparatus for hay
- Bioreactors for use in manufacturing biopharmaceuticals
- Bitumen making machines
- Blade holders [parts of machines]
- Blade sharpening [stropping] machines / stropping machines
- Blades [parts of machines]
- Blenders, electric, for household purposes
- Blowing machines
- Blowing machines for the compression, exhaustion and transport of gases
- Blowing machines for the compression, sucking and carrying of grain / fans for the compression, sucking and carrying of grain / blowing machines or fans for the compression, sucking and carrying of grain
- Bobbins for weaving looms / reels for weaving looms
- Boiler tubes [parts of machines]
- Bookbinding apparatus and machines for industrial purposes
- Bottle capping machines
- Bottle filling machines
- Bottle sealing machines
- Bottle stoppering machines
- Bottle washing machines
- Boxes for matrices [printing]
- Braiding machines
- Brake linings, other than for vehicles
- Brake pads, other than for vehicles
- Brake segments, other than for vehicles
- Brake shoes, other than for vehicles
- Bread cutting machines
- Brewing machines
- Brushes [parts of machines]
- Brushes for vacuum cleaners
- Brushes, electrically operated [parts of machines]
- Bulldozers
- Butter machines
- Calenders / mangles
- Camshafts for vehicle engines
- Capstans
- Carbon brushes [electricity]
- Carburetter feeders
- Carburetters
- Card clothing [parts of carding machines]
- Carding machines
- Cartridges for filtering machines
- Catalytic converters
- Central vacuum cleaning installations
- Centrifugal machines / centrifuges [machines]
- Centrifugal mills
- Centrifugal pumps
- Chaff cutter blades
- Chain saws
- Cheese slicers, electric
- Chemical reactors for use in manufacturing
- Chisels for machines
- Chucks [parts of machines]
- Churns
- Cigarette machines for industrial purposes
- Cinder sifters [machines]
- Clack valves [parts of machines]
- Cleaning appliances utilizing steam
- Clippers [machines]
- Clutch linings, other than for land vehicles
- Clutches, other than for land vehicles
- Coal-cutting machines
- Coffee grinders, other than hand-operated
- Coin-operated washing machines
- Compressed air engines
- Compressed air guns for the extrusion of mastics
- Compressed air machines
- Compressed air pumps
- Compressors [machines]
- Compressors for refrigerators
- Concrete mixers [machines]
- Condensing installations
- Connecting rods for machines, motors and engines
- Control cables for machines, engines or motors
- Control mechanisms for machines, engines or motors
- Converters for steelworks
- Conveyors [machines]
- Cord making machines
- Couplings, other than for land vehicles
- Cowlings [parts of machines] / guards [parts of machines] / hoods [parts of machines]
- Cranes [lifting and hoisting apparatus]
- Crankcases for machines, motors and engines
- Cranks [parts of machines]
- Crankshafts
- Cream/milk separators
- Crushers for kitchen use, electric
- Crushing machines
- Cultivators [machines]
- Current generators
- Curtain drawing devices, electrically operated
- Cutters [machines]
- Cutting blow pipes, gas-operated
- Cutting machines
- Cylinder heads for engines
- Cylinders for machines
- Cylinders for motors and engines
- Dairy machines
- Darning machines
- De-aerators for feedwater
- Degreasers [machines]
- Derricks
- Die-cutting and tapping machines / nut-tapping machines
- Die-stamping machines
- Diggers [machines]
- Dishwashing machines / dishwashers
- Disintegrators
- Ditchers [ploughs]
- Dividing machines
- Door closers, electric
- Door closers, hydraulic
- Door closers, pneumatic
- Door openers, electric
- Door openers, hydraulic
- Door openers, pneumatic
- Drainage machines
- Drill chucks [parts of machines]
- Drilling bits [parts of machines]
- Drilling heads [parts of machines]
- Drilling machines
- Drilling rigs, floating or non-floating
- Drive chains, other than for land vehicles
- Driving motors, other than for land vehicles
- Drums [parts of machines]
- Dust exhausting installations for cleaning purposes
- Dust removing installations for cleaning purposes
- Dyeing machines
- Dynamo belts
- Dynamo brushes
- Dynamos
- Earth moving machines
- Ejectors
- Electric arc cutting apparatus
- Electric arc welding apparatus
- Electric hammers
- Electric hand drills
- Electric vacuum food sealers for household purposes
- Electric welding apparatus
- Electrical apparatus for sealing plastics [packaging]
- Electrical discharge machines [EDM]
- Electricity generators
- Electrodes for welding machines
- Electromechanical machines for chemical industry
- Electroplating machines
- Elevating apparatus
- Elevator chains [parts of machines]
- Elevators [machines]
- Embossing machines
- Emergency power generators
- Engine mounts, other than for land vehicles
- Engines for air cushion vehicles
- Engines for boats
- Engraving machines
- Excavators
- Exhaust manifold for engines
- Exhausts for motors and engines
- Expansion tanks [parts of machines]
- Fan belts for motors and engines
- Fans for motors and engines
- Feeders [parts of machines]
- Feeding apparatus for engine boilers
- Filling machines
- Filter presses
- Filtering machines
- Filters being parts of machines or engines
- Filters for cleaning cooling air, for engines
- Finishing machines
- Fittings for engine boilers
- Fleshing machines
- Floating production, storage and offloading [FPSO] units
- Flour mill machines
- Flues for engine boilers
- Fluid dispensing machines for industrial use
- Fodder presses
- Food preparation machines, electromechanical
- Food processors, electric
- Forge blowers
- Foundry machines
- Freewheels, other than for land vehicles
- Friezing machines
- Fruit pitting machines
- Fruit presses, electric, for household purposes
- Fuel conversion apparatus for internal combustion engines
- Fuel dispensing pumps for service stations
- Fuel economisers for motors and engines
- Furnace loading machines
- Galvanizing machines
- Gas-operated blow torches
- Gear boxes, other than for land vehicles
- Gears for weaving looms
- Gears, other than for land vehicles
- Glass-working machines
- Glaziers' diamonds [parts of machines]
- Glow plugs for Diesel engines
- Glue guns, electric
- Grain elevators
- Grain husking machines / corn husking machines / corn and grain husking machines
- Grain separators
- Grating machines for vegetables
- Grease boxes [parts of machines]
- Grease rings [parts of machines]
- Grinding machines
- Grindstones [parts of machines] / sharpening wheels [parts of machines]
- Guides for machines
- Guns [tools using explosive cartridges]
- Hammers [parts of machines]
- Hand-held tools, other than hand-operated
- Handling apparatus for loading and unloading
- Handling machines, automatic [manipulators]
- Hangers [parts of machines]
- Harrows
- Harvesting machines / mowing and reaping machines
- Haulage apparatus [mining] / extractors for mines
- Heat exchangers [parts of machines]
- Hemming machines
- High pressure washers
- Hoists
- Holding devices for machine tools
- Hoppers [mechanical discharging]
- Hosiery looms [machines]
- Household cleaning and laundry robots with artificial intelligence
- Housings [parts of machines]
- Hydraulic controls for machines, motors and engines
- Hydraulic engines and motors
- Hydraulic turbines
- Hydrogen dispensing pumps for service stations
- Igniting devices for internal combustion engines
- Igniting magnetos
- Incubators for eggs
- Industrial inkjet printing machines
- Industrial robots
- Injectors for engines
- Inking apparatus for printing machines
- Ironing machines
- Jacks [machines]
- Jet engines, other than for land vehicles
- Joints [parts of engines] / sealing joints [parts of engines]
- Journal boxes [parts of machines]
- Journals [parts of machines]
- Joysticks being parts of machines, other than for game machines
- Juice extractors, electric
- Kick starters for motorcycles
- Kitchen grinders, electric
- Kitchen machines, electric
- Kneading machines
- Knitting machines
- Knives being parts of machines
- Knives for mowing machines
- Knives, electric
- Labellers [machines]
- Lace making machines
- Lasts for shoes [parts of machines] / shoe lasts [parts of machines]
- Lathes [machine tools]
- Laundry washing machines with drying function
- Lawnmowers [machines]
- Leather paring machines
- Leather-working machines
- Lifting apparatus
- Loading ramps
- Loom shafts
- Looms [machines]
- Lubricating pumps
- Lubricators [parts of machines]
- Machine fly-wheels
- Machine tools
- Machine wheels
- Machine wheelwork
- Machines and apparatus for carpet shampooing, electric
- Machines and apparatus for cleaning, electric
- Machines and apparatus for polishing [electric]
- Machines and apparatus for wax-polishing, electric
- Machines for generating gas by electrolysis
- Machines for processing plastics
- Machines for the application of sizing
- Machines for the mineralization of drinking water / machines for the mineralisation of drinking water
- Machines for the production of sugar
- Machines for the textile industry
- Machining centres for metalworking / machining centers for metalworking
- Matrices for use in printing
- Meat choppers, electric / meat mincers, electric
- Mechanical seals being parts of machines
- Mechanical vehicle stacking lifts
- Mechanized livestock feeders
- Metal drawing machines
- Metalworking machines
- Milking machines
- Milling machines
- Mills [machines]
- Mills for household purposes, other than hand-operated
- Millstones
- Mine borers
- Mineworking machines
- Miso making machines
- Mixers [machines]
- Mixing machines
- Mobile cranes
- Mortising machines / paring machines
- Motorized cultivators
- Motors for boats
- Motors, electric, other than for land vehicles
- Motors, other than for land vehicles / engines, other than for land vehicles
- Moulding machines / molding machines
- Moulds [parts of machines] / molds [parts of machines]
- Moving staircases [escalators] / escalators
- Moving walkways / moving sidewalks
- Mud catchers and collectors [machines]
- Mufflers for motors and engines / silencers for motors and engines
- Nail extractors, electric / nail pullers, electric
- Needles for knitting machines
- Needles for sewing machines
- Needles for wool combing machines
- Net hauling machines [fishing]
- Notchers [machine tools]
- Oil refining machines
- Optical fibre fusion splicers / optical fiber fusion splicers
- Ore treating machines
- Outboard motors
- Packaging machines
- Packing machines
- Painting machines
- Paper feeders [printing]
- Papermaking machines
- Parquet wax-polishers, electric
- Passenger boarding bridges, electromechanical
- Passenger lift operating apparatus / passenger elevator operating apparatus
- Passenger lifts / passenger elevators
- Pasta making machines, electric
- Pedal drives for sewing machines
- Peeling machines
- Pepper mills, other than hand-operated
- Petrol pumps for service stations / gas pumps for service stations
- Pigs for cleaning pipes
- Piston segments / piston rings
- Pistons [parts of machines or engines]
- Pistons for cylinders
- Pistons for engines
- Planing machines
- Ploughs
- Ploughshares
- Pneumatic controls for machines, motors and engines
- Pneumatic hammers
- Pneumatic jacks
- Pneumatic or hydraulic linear actuators, other than for land vehicles
- Pneumatic transporters
- Pneumatic tube conveyors / tube conveyors, pneumatic
- Pneumatic waste oil drainers
- Portable laser engraving machines
- Portable ultrasonic washing devices for laundry
- Potters' wheels
- Power hammers
- Presses [machines for industrial purposes]
- Pressure reducers [parts of machines]
- Pressure regulators [parts of machines]
- Pressure valves [parts of machines]
- Printing cylinders
- Printing machines
- Printing machines for use on sheet metal
- Printing plates
- Printing presses
- Printing rollers for machines
- Propulsion mechanisms, other than for land vehicles
- Puddling machines
- Pulleys [parts of machines]
- Pulleys*
- Pump diaphragms
- Pumps [machines]
- Pumps [parts of machines, engines or motors]
- Pumps for counter-current swimming
- Pumps for heating installations
- Punches for punching machines
- Punching machines
- Rack and pinion jacks
- Racket stringing machines
- Radiators [cooling] for motors and engines
- Rail-laying machines
- Railroad constructing machines
- Railway wagon lifts
- Rakes for raking machines
- Raking machines
- Rammers [machines]
- Rams [machines]
- Reapers
- Reapers and binders
- Reapers and threshers
- Reduction gears, other than for land vehicles
- Reeling apparatus, mechanical
- Reels [parts of machines]
- Reels, mechanical, for flexible hoses
- Regulators [parts of machines]
- Rinsing machines
- Riveting machines
- Road making machines / road building machines
- Road sweeping machines, self-propelled
- Robotic arms for preparing beverages
- Robotic exoskeleton suits, other than for medical purposes
- Robotic window cleaners
- Roller bearings
- Roller bridges
- Rolling mill cylinders
- Rolling mills
- Rotary printing presses
- Rotary steam presses, portable, for fabrics
- Rubber tracks being parts of crawlers on agricultural machines
- Rubber tracks being parts of crawlers on construction machines
- Rubber tracks being parts of crawlers on loading-unloading machines and apparatus
- Rubber tracks being parts of crawlers on mining machines
- Rubber tracks being parts of crawlers on snow ploughs
- Sandblasting guns
- Satinizing machines
- Sausage making machines
- Saw benches [parts of machines]
- Saw blades [parts of machines]
- Saws [machines]
- Scale collectors for machine boilers
- Scissors, electric
- Screwdrivers, electric
- Sealing machines for industrial purposes
- Self-oiling bearings
- Self-regulating fuel pumps
- Semiconductor exposure apparatus for use in manufacture
- Semiconductor manufacturing machines
- Sewage pulverizers / sewage pulverisers
- Sewing machines
- Shaft couplings [machines]
- Sharpening machines
- Sheaf-binding machines
- Shearing machines for animals / hair clipping machines for animals / hair cutting machines for animals
- Shears, electric
- Shock absorber plungers [parts of machines] / dashpot plungers [parts of machines] / plunger pistons
- Shoe polishers, electric
- Shovels, mechanical
- Shredders [machines] for industrial use
- Shuttles [parts of machines]
- Sieves [machines or parts of machines]
- Sifting installations
- Sifting machines
- Size adjustment cutting machines for industrial purposes
- Ski edge sharpening tools, electric
- Slide rests [parts of machines]
- Sliders for knitting machines / carriages for knitting machines / slides for knitting machines
- Smoothing presses
- Snow ploughs
- Soldering apparatus, electric
- Soldering apparatus, gas-operated / welding apparatus, gas-operated
- Soldering blow pipes, gas-operated
- Soldering irons, electric
- Soldering irons, gas-operated
- Soldering lamps
- Sorting machines for industry
- Sowers [machines]
- Soy sauce making machines
- Sparking plugs for internal combustion engines
- Speed governors for machines, engines and motors
- Spin dryers [not heated] / spin driers [not heated]
- Spinning frames
- Spinning machines
- Spinning wheels
- Spray guns for paint
- Springs [parts of machines]
- Stalk separators [machines]
- Stamping machines
- Stands for machines
- Starter pinions
- Starters for motors and engines
- Stators [parts of machines]
- Steam condensers [parts of machines]
- Steam engine boilers
- Steam engines
- Steam mops
- Steam traps
- Steam/oil separators
- Steamrollers / road rollers
- Stereotype machines
- Stitching machines
- Stone-working machines
- Straw [chaff] cutters / chaff cutters
- Stuffing boxes [parts of machines]
- Suction cups for milking machines / teat cups for milking machines
- Suction machines for industrial purposes
- Suction nozzles for vacuum cleaners
- Superchargers
- Swaging machines
- Tables for machines
- Tambours for embroidery machines
- Tape dispensing machines for industrial use
- Taps [parts of machines, engines or motors] / faucets [parts of machines, engines or motors]
- Tarring machines
- Tedding machines
- Thermic lances [machines]
- Threading machines
- Threshing machines
- Ticket vending machines
- Tilling machines for agricultural purposes
- Tilt hammers
- Tin openers, electric / can openers, electric
- Tobacco processing machines
- Tools [parts of machines]
- Torque converters, other than for land vehicles
- Touchless stationary vacuums
- Transmission chains, other than for land vehicles
- Transmission mechanisms, other than for land vehicles
- Transmission shafts, other than for land vehicles
- Transmissions for machines
- Trimming machines / apparatus for dressing / apparatus for machining
- Trueing machines
- Turbines, other than for land vehicles
- Turbochargers for motors
- Turbocompressors
- Turf removing ploughs
- Tympans [parts of printing presses]
- Type-setting machines [photocomposition]
- Type-setting machines [printing]
- Typecasting machines
- Typographic machines
- Typographic presses
- Universal joints [Cardan joints]
- Vacuum cleaner attachments for disseminating perfumes and disinfectants
- Vacuum cleaner bags
- Vacuum cleaner hoses
- Vacuum cleaners
- Vacuum pumps [machines]
- Valves [parts of machines]
- Vegetable peelers, electric
- Vegetable slicers, electric / vegetable shredders, electric
- Vegetable spiralizers, electric
- Vending machines
- Vibrators [machines] for industrial use
- Vulcanization apparatus
- Washing apparatus
- Washing installations for vehicles / vehicle washing installations
- Washing machines [laundry]
- Waste compacting machines / trash compacting machines
- Waste disposal units / garbage disposal units
- Water heaters being parts of machines
- Water separators / drain cocks
- Weeding machines
- Welding machines, electric
- Whisks, electric, for household purposes
- Whitewashing machines / colour-washing machines
- Winches
- Wind turbines
- Window closers, electric
- Window closers, hydraulic
- Window closers, pneumatic
- Window openers, electric
- Window openers, hydraulic
- Window openers, pneumatic
- Wine presses
- Winnowers
- Woodworking machines
- Wrapping machines
- Wringing machines for laundry
What Class 7 does not include
Class 7 has two big carve-outs — hand tools and land-vehicle engines — plus newer exclusions for AI-driven robots. Note these:
| Product | Correct class |
|---|---|
| Hand-operated hand tools and implements | Class 8 |
| Motors and engines for land vehicles | Class 12 |
| Transmission components for land vehicles | Class 12 |
| Automated teller machines (ATMs) | Class 9 |
| AI robots — humanoid, security, teaching, laboratory | Class 9 |
| Surgical robots | Class 10 |
| Refrigerating apparatus | Class 11 |
The rule of thumb: a powered machine or non-vehicle motor is Class 7, but a hand-powered tool is Class 8, a land-vehicle engine is Class 12, and an AI-driven or special-function robot is classified by that function.
Who files in Class 7 in Nepal?
Class 7 matters for Nepal's agriculture and industry. It is filed by agricultural-machinery makers and importers — power tillers, threshers, mills and pumps that mechanise Nepali farming — industrial-equipment and machine-tool suppliers, generator and pump brands, and manufacturers of powered cleaning machines. As Nepal industrialises and mechanises agriculture, branded machinery increasingly seeks protection here. Confirm your class with the NICE Class Finder or the AI NICE Classifier.
How to register a trademark in Class 7
Search the register for earlier machinery marks, confirm Class 7 fits (and that a hand tool doesn't belong in Class 8 or a vehicle engine in Class 12), 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. A machinery business might file in Class 7 for powered machines and in Class 8 for the hand tools it also sells, or add repair-service classes. Because Nepal files one class per application with fees per class, map your range first. See choosing the right class, and the neighbouring Class 6 (Metals & Hardware).
Why precise Class 7 filing matters
Machinery is a considered purchase, and buyers lean on a brand to signal reliability, so an accurate Class 7 registration matters. A specification that names your real goods — "power tillers", "water pumps", "industrial machine tools" — protects what you actually sell and avoids both under-protection and a needless clash with unrelated machinery marks. Precision also keeps the power-versus-hand and land-vehicle boundaries clean, so you know which products need Class 8 or Class 12 instead. Because Nepal is first-to-file, the date you lodge the Class 7 application secures your priority as the country's agriculture mechanises and demand for branded equipment grows. For a machinery brand, an early, precisely scoped filing is what protects the name a farmer or factory comes to rely on.
Class 7 filing checklist
- Confirm your product is a powered machine or non-vehicle motor.
- Check the exclusions — hand tools (Class 8), vehicle engines (Class 12), AI robots (Class 9/10).
- Search the register for similar machinery marks.
- Draft a precise goods specification.
- Consider Class 8 for hand tools or service classes for repair.
- File with the Department of Industry and track to registration.
A Nepal example
Take a Nepali agricultural-machinery business. Its power tillers, threshers and water pumps are Class 7, where its main trademark is filed. But the hand tools it also sells — sickles, manual hoes, hand cutters — are Class 8, and the repair and servicing it offers to farmers is a service in Class 37. One brand recognised across a village market can therefore need Class 7 for the machines, Class 8 for the hand tools, and Class 37 for the servicing. Filing only in Class 7 is the mistake that leaves the tools and the service side of the business exposed.
Getting Class 7 right: common mistakes
The two defining Class 7 mistakes are the power-versus-hand line and the land-vehicle carve-out. A powered machine or power tool is Class 7, but a hand-operated tool is Class 8 — a powered tiller is Class 7 while a manual hoe is Class 8. And although Class 7 covers motors and engines, it explicitly excludes those for land vehicles, which are Class 12; filing a car or motorcycle engine in Class 7 is a common error.
A newer pitfall involves robots. Industrial robots are Class 7, but AI-driven robots defined by a specific function — humanoid, security, teaching or laboratory robots — are typically Class 9, and surgical robots Class 10. As automation spreads, this distinction matters more. Specify the actual machinery you make, and add Class 8 for hand tools or a services class for repair wherever your business extends beyond powered machines.
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