Trademark Class 8 in Nepal — Hand Tools & Implements (What It Covers & How to File)

NICE Class 8 covers hand-operated hand tools and implements, cutlery, side arms (except firearms), and razors. It is a goods class defined by one idea: tools and blades powered by hand, not by a motor. In Nepal you register a Class 8 trademark with the Department of Industry, and protection covers only the class you file in — so a powered version of the same tool belongs in Class 7 instead.

Key Takeaways

• Class 8 is the hand-tools class — manually operated tools and implements for drilling, shaping, cutting and piercing.
• It includes cutlery, razors, manicure and pedicure tools, agricultural and garden hand tools, and hand-operated pumps.
• The defining line is power: hand-operated is Class 8, motor-driven is Class 7.
• It excludes surgical cutlery (Class 10), firearm side arms (Class 13), and kitchen serving utensils (Class 21).
• Nepal's famous khukuri and cutlery makers, and agricultural hand-tool producers, file in Class 8.
• Register with the Department of Industry for a renewable 7-year term.

What does Trademark Class 8 cover?

Class 8 covers hand-operated hand tools and implements; cutlery; side arms, except firearms; and razors. The unifying idea is implements for performing tasks — drilling, shaping, cutting, piercing — that are worked by hand. It reaches from a carpenter's hammer and chisel to a farmer's sickle, from table knives and forks to razors and manicure sets, and it includes the handles made for those tools. Hand-operated pumps also sit here.

Full list of goods in Class 8

Below is the complete alphabetical list of Class 8 goods indications from the WIPO NICE Classification (13-2026 edition) — 278 entries in total. Use it to find the exact wording for your specification when you file in Nepal:

• Abrading instruments [hand instruments]
• Adzes [tools]
• Agricultural forks [hand tools]
• Agricultural implements, hand-operated
• Air pumps, hand-operated
• Annular screw plates
• Apparatus for destroying plant parasites, hand-operated
• Apparatus for tattooing
• Augers [hand tools]
• Awls
• Axes
• Bayonets
• Beard clippers
• Bench vices [hand implements]
• Bill-hooks
• Bits [hand tools]
• Bits [parts of hand tools]
• Blade sharpening instruments
• Blades [hand tools]
• Blades [weapons]
• Blades for planes
• Blunt chisels
• Border shears
• Borers
• Bow saws
• Box cutters
• Braiders [hand tools]
• Branding irons
• Breast drills
• Budding knives
• Carpenters' augers
• Carving forks
• Carving knives
• Cattle shearers
• Caulking irons
• Centre punches [hand tools] / center punches [hand tools]
• Ceramic knives
• Cheese slicers, non-electric
• Chisels*
• Choppers being knives
• Clamps for carpenters or coopers
• Cleavers
• Clothes irons
• Crimping irons
• Crow bars
• Curling tongs
• Cuticle tweezers / cuticle nippers
• Cutlery*
• Cutter bars [hand tools]
• Cutting tools [hand tools]
• Daggers
• Depilation appliances, electric and non-electric
• Dies [hand tools] / screw stocks [hand tools] / screw-thread cutters [hand tools]
• Diggers [hand tools]
• Ditchers [hand tools]
• Drawing knives
• Drill holders [hand tools]
• Ear-piercing apparatus
• Earth rammers [hand tools]
• Edge tools [hand tools]
• Egg slicers, non-electric
• Embossers [hand tools]
• Emergency hammers
• Emery boards
• Emery files
• Emery grinding wheels
• Engraving needles
• Expanders [hand tools]
• Extension pieces for braces for screw taps
• Eyelash curlers
• Farriers' knives
• Files [tools]
• Fingernail polishers, electric or non-electric / nail buffers, electric or non-electric
• Fire irons
• Fireplace bellows [hand tools]
• Fish tapes [hand tools] / draw wires [hand tools]
• Food processors, hand-operated
• Foundry ladles [hand tools]
• Frames for handsaws
• Fruit corers
• Fruit pickers [hand tools]
• Fruit pitters, hand-operated
• Fruit segmenters
• Fullers [hand tools]
• Fulling tools [hand tools]
• Garden tools, hand-operated
• Gimlets [hand tools]
• Glaziers' diamonds [parts of hand tools]
• Goffering irons
• Gouges [hand tools]
• Grafting tools [hand tools]
• Graving tools [hand tools]
• Grindstones [hand tools] / sharpening wheels [hand tools]
• Guns [hand tools]
• Guns, hand-operated, for the extrusion of mastics
• Hackles [hand tools]
• Hainault scythes
• Hair braiders, electric
• Hair clippers for animals [hand instruments]
• Hair clippers for personal use, electric and non-electric
• Hair straightening irons
• Hair-removing tweezers
• Hammers [hand tools]
• Hand drills, hand-operated
• Hand implements for hair curling
• Hand pumps*
• Hand tools, hand-operated
• Hand-operated corn cob strippers
• Hand-operated fruit slicers
• Hand-operated vegetable spiralizers
• Hand-operated wine bottle foil cutters
• Handles for hand-operated hand tools
• Harpoons*
• Hatchets
• Hobby knives [scalpels]
• Hoes [hand tools]
• Holing axes / mortise axes
• Hollowing bits [parts of hand tools]
• Hoop cutters [hand tools]
• Hunting knives
• Ice picks
• Implements for decanting liquids [hand tools]
• Insecticide vaporizers [hand tools] / insecticide atomizers [hand tools] / insecticide sprayers [hand tools]
• Instruments and tools for skinning animals
• Instruments for punching tickets
• Irons [non-electric hand tools]
• Jig-saws
• Kitchen mandolines
• Knife handles
• Knives*
• Ladles [hand tools]
• Laser hair removal apparatus, other than for medical purposes
• Lasts [shoemakers' hand tools]
• Lawn clippers [hand instruments]
• Leather strops
• Levers
• Lifting jacks, hand-operated
• Livestock marking tools / cattle marking tools
• Long reach loppers
• Machetes
• Mallets [hand instruments]
• Manicure sets
• Manicure sets, electric
• Marline spikes
• Masons' hammers
• Mattocks
• Meat claws
• Metal band stretchers [hand tools]
• Metal wire stretchers [hand tools]
• Milling cutters [hand tools]
• Mincing knives / fleshing knives / meat choppers being knives
• Mitre boxes [hand tools] / miter boxes [hand tools]
• Money scoops
• Mortars for pounding [hand tools]
• Mortise chisels
• Moulding irons / molding irons
• Multi-tool knives
• Nail clippers, electric or non-electric
• Nail drawers [hand tools]
• Nail extractors, hand-operated / nail pullers, hand-operated
• Nail files
• Nail files, electric
• Nail nippers
• Nail punches
• Needle files
• Non-electric caulking guns
• Numbering punches
• Oyster openers
• Palette knives
• Paring irons [hand tools]
• Paring knives
• Pedicure sets
• Penknives
• Perforating tools [hand tools]
• Pickaxes
• Pickhammers / bushhammers
• Picks [hand tools]
• Pin punches
• Pincers* / nippers / tongs*
• Pizza cutters, non-electric
• Plane irons
• Planes
• Pliers
• Polishing irons [glazing tools] / glazing irons
• Portable handlooms, hand-operated
• Priming irons [hand tools]
• Pruning knives
• Pruning scissors / secateurs
• Punch pliers [hand tools]
• Punch rings [knuckle dusters] / knuckle dusters
• Punches [hand tools]
• Rabbeting planes
• Rakes [hand tools]
• Rammers [hand tools] / pestles for pounding [hand tools]
• Rams [hand tools]
• Rasps [hand tools]
• Ratchets [hand tools]
• Razor blades
• Razor cases
• Razor strops
• Razors, electric or non-electric
• Reamer sockets
• Reamers
• Riveters [hand tools]
• Riveting hammers [hand tools]
• Sabres
• Sand trap rakes
• Saw blades [parts of hand tools]
• Saw holders
• Saws [hand tools]
• Scaling knives
• Scissors*
• Scrapers [hand tools]
• Scrapers for skis
• Scraping tools [hand tools]
• Screwdrivers, non-electric
• Sculptors' chisels
• Scythe handles
• Scythe rings
• Scythe stones / whetstones
• Scythes
• Seam rippers / stitch rippers
• Sharpening instruments
• Sharpening steels / knife steels
• Sharpening stones
• Shaving cases
• Shear blades
• Shearers [hand instruments]
• Shears*
• Shovels [hand tools]
• Sickles
• Side arms, other than firearms
• Silver plate [knives, forks and spoons]
• Ski edge sharpening tools, hand-operated
• Sledgehammers
• Spades [hand tools]
• Spanners [hand tools] / wrenches [hand tools]
• Spatulas [hand tools]
• Spatulas for use by artists
• Spoons*
• Squares [hand tools]
• Stamping-out tools [hand tools] / stamps [hand tools]
• Sterile body piercing instruments
• Stirring sticks for mixing paint
• Stitching awls
• Stone hammers
• Stropping instruments
• Sword scabbards
• Swords
• Syringes for spraying insecticides
• Table cutlery [knives, forks and spoons] / tableware [knives, forks and spoons]
• Table forks
• Table knives, forks and spoons for babies
• Table knives, forks and spoons of plastic
• Tap wrenches
• Taps [hand tools]
• Tattoo needles
• Thistle extractors [hand tools]
• Tin openers, non-electric / can openers, non-electric
• Tool belts
• Tool vests
• Tree pruners
• Trowels
• Trowels [gardening]
• Truncheons / bludgeons / police batons
• Tube cutters [hand tools]
• Tube cutting instruments
• Tube squeezers, hand-operated, other than for household purposes
• Tweezers
• Vegetable choppers
• Vegetable knives
• Vegetable peelers, hand-operated
• Vegetable slicers, hand-operated / vegetable shredders, hand-operated
• Vices / vises
• Weeding forks [hand tools]
• Whetstone holders
• Wick trimmers [scissors]
• Wire strippers [hand tools]

What Class 8 does not include

The key trap is power (Class 7) and the several specialist blades classified by use. Note these exclusions:

The rule of thumb: a hand-worked tool or blade is Class 8, but a powered tool is Class 7, a surgical instrument is Class 10, and a kitchen serving utensil is Class 21.

Who files in Class 8 in Nepal?

Class 8 has a distinctly Nepali flavour. It is filed by khukuri and cutlery makers — the khukuri is one of Nepal's most iconic products — along with agricultural hand-tool producers serving the country's farmers, carpentry and craft-tool suppliers, razor and grooming-implement brands, and manicure-set makers. For a heritage craft like the khukuri, a registered trademark protects the maker's name against imitators at home and abroad. Confirm your class with the NICE Class Finder.

How to register a trademark in Class 8

Search the register for earlier tool and cutlery marks, confirm Class 8 fits (and that a powered tool isn't really Class 7), 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 tool business might file in Class 8 for hand tools and in Class 7 for its powered range, or add metal-goods Class 6. Because Nepal files one class per application with fees per class, map your range first. See choosing the right class, and the neighbouring Class 7 (Machines) and Class 9 (Electronics & Software).

A Nepal example

Take a khukuri workshop in Bhojpur or Dharan. Its hand-forged khukuris and other blades are Class 8, so that is where its brand is registered. But if the same workshop sells decorative metal display stands, those are metal goods in Class 6, and any powered grinding machine it manufactures is Class 7. One heritage brand can span Class 8 for the blades, Class 6 for metal display goods, and Class 7 for machinery — each protected only by its own filing. For a craft as copied as the khukuri, the Class 8 filing is the one that guards the name buyers trust.

Getting Class 8 right: common mistakes

The defining Class 8 mistake is the power line. A hand-operated drill or cutter is Class 8, but the moment it is motor-driven it becomes a Class 7 machine tool — brands that sell both often wrongly file everything in one class. A second frequent error is filing kitchen utensils in Class 8: table cutlery is Class 8, but serving spoons, spatulas and mixing implements are Class 21.

A third pitfall is blades classified by use. A general knife is Class 8, but a surgical blade is Class 10, an office paper knife is Class 16, and a fencing weapon is Class 28. Specify the actual tools you make rather than claiming the whole heading, so your Class 8 registration is precise and defensible, and add Class 7 or Class 6 where your range extends into powered or metal goods.

Why precise Class 8 filing matters

For a heritage or craft brand, the name is the asset, so precision protects it. A specification that names your real goods — "khukuri knives", "garden hand tools", "razors" — is easier to register and clearer to enforce than a vague claim over the whole class. Precision also keeps the hand-versus-power and blade-by-use boundaries clean, so you know which products genuinely need Class 7, 10 or 21. Because Nepal is first-to-file, the date you lodge secures your priority — which matters especially for iconic products that copycats target. An early, accurate Class 8 filing is what turns a respected craft name into a defensible brand.

In short

Class 8 is where hand-worked tools and blades live — from a carpenter's chisel to a khukuri, from table cutlery to a razor. The one test to remember is power: the moment a tool is motor-driven it leaves Class 8 for Class 7. Get that line right, name your real goods, and file early, and your Class 8 registration will protect the craft name that carries your reputation.

Class 8 filing checklist

• Confirm your tool is hand-operated, not motor-driven.
• Check the exclusions — Class 7, 10, 16, 21 or 28.
• Search the register for similar tool and cutlery marks.
• Draft a precise goods specification.
• Consider Class 7 for powered tools or Class 6 for metal goods.
• File with the Department of Industry and track to registration.

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Register your Class 8 trademark

Protect your tool, cutlery or khukuri 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 products span hand tools, powered tools and metal goods.