NICE Class 9 is the technology class — it covers computer software and mobile apps (downloadable), computers and peripherals, electronics, scientific, measuring and optical instruments, and much more. It is one of the busiest classes for modern businesses. In Nepal you register a Class 9 trademark with the Department of Industry, and protection covers only the class you file in — with one important trap: a downloadable app is Class 9, but software-as-a-service is a Class 42 service.
Key Takeaways
- Class 9 is the software and electronics class — downloadable apps and software, computers, and electronic and scientific instruments.
- Downloadable software and mobile apps are Class 9; providing software online as a service (SaaS) is Class 42.
- It includes smartphones and cases, smartwatches, POS terminals, ATMs, and recorded and downloadable media.
- It excludes industrial robots (Class 7), surgical robots (Class 10), and "smart" everyday products that keep their normal function.
- Nepal's IT, app, fintech and electronics businesses file most heavily in Class 9.
- Register with the Department of Industry for a renewable 7-year term.
What does Trademark Class 9 cover?
Class 9 covers a huge range of technology and instruments: computer software and downloadable applications; computers and peripherals; apparatus for recording, transmitting, reproducing or processing sound, images or data; recorded and downloadable media; scientific, research, navigation, measuring, signalling, optical and testing instruments; apparatus for controlling electricity; life-saving and safety equipment; and cash registers and calculating devices. In short, if a product is electronic, digital, or a measuring/scientific instrument, Class 9 is usually its home.
Full list of goods in Class 9
Below is the complete alphabetical list of Class 9 goods indications from the WIPO NICE Classification (13-2026 edition) — 860 entries in total. Use it to find the exact wording for your specification when you file in Nepal:
- 3D scanners
- 3D spectacles
- Abacuses
- Accelerometers
- Accumulators, electric
- Acid hydrometers
- Acidimeters for batteries
- Acoustic alarms / sound alarms
- Acoustic conduits
- Acoustic couplers
- Actinometers
- Adding machines
- Aerials / antennas
- Aerometers
- Air analysis apparatus
- Airbags for safety purposes for fall protection
- Alarm bells, electric
- Alarms*
- Alcoholmeters
- Alidades
- Altimeters
- Ammeters
- Amplifiers
- Amplifiers for servo motors
- Amplifying tubes / amplifying valves
- Anemometers
- Animal signalling rattles for directing livestock
- Animated cartoons
- Anode batteries / high tension batteries
- Anodes
- Answering machines
- Anti-interference devices [electricity]
- Anti-theft warning apparatus
- Anticathodes
- Apertometers [optics]
- Apparatus and installations for the production of X-rays, not for medical purposes
- Apparatus and instruments for astronomy
- Apparatus and instruments for physics
- Apparatus for changing record player needles
- Apparatus for editing cinematographic film
- Apparatus for generating gas for calibration purposes
- Apparatus for measuring the thickness of skins
- Apparatus for testing breast milk, other than for medical or veterinary use
- Apparatus to check franking / apparatus to check stamping mail
- Appliances for measuring the thickness of leather
- Armatures [electricity]
- Asbestos clothing for protection against fire
- Asbestos gloves for protection against accidents
- Asbestos screens for firefighters
- Audio interfaces
- Audio mixers
- Audio- and video-receivers
- Audiovisual teaching apparatus
- Automated teller machines [ATM]
- Automatic indicators of low pressure in vehicle tyres / automatic indicators of low pressure in vehicle tires
- Autonomous navigation systems for ships
- Azimuth instruments
- Baby monitors
- Baby scales
- Bags adapted for laptops
- Balances [steelyards] / lever scales [steelyards] / steelyards [lever scales]
- Balancing apparatus
- Barcode readers
- Barometers
- Bathroom scales
- Batteries for electronic cigarettes
- Batteries, electric
- Batteries, electric, for vehicles / accumulators, electric, for vehicles
- Battery boxes / accumulator boxes
- Battery chargers
- Battery jars / accumulator jars
- Beacons, luminous
- Bells [warning devices]
- Betatrons
- Binoculars
- Biochips
- Biometric identity cards
- Biometric locks
- Biometric passports / e-passports
- Biometric scanners
- Bioreactors for cell culturing for scientific research
- Bioreactors for laboratory use
- Black boxes [data recorders]
- Blueprint apparatus
- Body harnesses for support when lifting loads
- Boiler control instruments
- Branch boxes [electricity]
- Breathalyzers
- Breathing apparatus for underwater swimming
- Breathing apparatus, not for medical purposes
- Bullet-proof clothing
- Bullet-proof vests / bullet-proof waistcoats
- Buzzers
- Cabinets for loudspeakers
- Cables, electric
- Calculating machines
- Calibrating rings
- Calipers
- Calorimeters
- Camcorders
- Cameras [photography]
- Capacitive finger sleeves for touchscreen devices
- Capillary tubes for laboratory use
- Carpenters' rules
- Carriers for dark plates [photography]
- Cases especially made for photographic apparatus and instruments
- Cases for smartphones
- Cases for smartphones incorporating a keyboard
- Cash registers
- Cassette players
- Cathodes
- Cathodic anti-corrosion apparatus
- Cell switches [electricity] / reducers [electricity]
- Centering apparatus for photographic transparencies
- Chargers for electric accumulators
- Chargers for electronic cigarettes
- Chargers for mobile telephones / chargers for cell phones
- Charging stations for electric vehicles
- Chemical reactors for laboratory use
- Chemistry apparatus and instruments
- Chips [integrated circuits]
- Choking coils [impedance]
- Chromatography apparatus for laboratory use
- Chronographs [time recording apparatus]
- Cinematographic cameras
- Cinematographic film, exposed
- Circuit breakers
- Circuit closers
- Circular slide rules
- Cleaning apparatus for phonograph records / cleaning apparatus for sound recording discs
- Climate control digital thermostats
- Close-up lenses
- Clothing especially made for laboratories
- Clothing for protection against accidents, irradiation and fire
- Clothing for protection against fire / garments for protection against fire
- Coaxial cables
- Coils, electric
- Coin-operated mechanisms for television sets
- Collectors, electric
- Commutators
- Compact disc players
- Compact discs [audio-video]
- Compact discs [read-only memory]
- Comparators
- Compasses for measuring
- Computer game software, downloadable
- Computer game software, recorded
- Computer hardware
- Computer keyboards
- Computer memory devices
- Computer mice
- Computer network routers
- Computer operating programs, recorded
- Computer peripheral devices
- Computer programs, downloadable
- Computer programs, recorded
- Computer screen saver software, recorded or downloadable
- Computer software applications, downloadable
- Computer software platforms, recorded or downloadable
- Computer software, recorded
- Computer trackballs
- Computers
- Condensers [capacitors] / capacitors
- Conductors, electric
- Connected bracelets [measuring instruments]
- Connections for electric lines
- Connectors [electricity]
- Contacts, electric
- Containers for microscope slides
- Control panels [electricity]
- Controllers for servo motors
- Converters, electric
- Cooling pads for laptop computers
- Copper wire, insulated
- Cordless telephones
- Cosmographic instruments
- Counterfeit coin detectors
- Counters / meters
- Couplers [data processing equipment]
- Couplings, electric / connections, electric
- Covers for electric outlets
- Covers for personal digital assistants [PDAs]
- Covers for smartphones
- Covers for tablet computers
- Crash test dummies
- Credit card terminals
- Crucibles [laboratory] / cupels [laboratory]
- Cryptocurrency hardware wallets
- Current rectifiers
- Cyclotrons
- Darkroom lamps [photography]
- Darkrooms [photography]
- Dashboard cameras
- Dashboard mats adapted for holding mobile telephones and smartphones / dashboard mats adapted for holding cell phones and smartphones
- Data gloves
- Data processing apparatus
- Data sets, recorded or downloadable
- Decompression chambers
- Decorative magnets
- Demagnetizing apparatus for magnetic tapes
- Densimeters
- Densitometers, not for medical purposes
- Detectors
- Devices for the projection of virtual keyboards
- Diagnostic apparatus for research laboratory use
- Diagnostic apparatus, not for medical purposes
- Diaphragms [acoustics]
- Diaphragms [photography]
- Diaphragms for scientific apparatus
- Dictating machines
- Diffraction apparatus [microscopy]
- Digital photo frames
- Digital signs
- Digital weather stations
- Directional compasses
- Discharge tubes, electric, other than for lighting / electric discharge tubes, other than for lighting
- Disk drives for computers
- Disks, magnetic
- Distance measuring apparatus
- Distance recording apparatus / apparatus for recording distance
- Distillation apparatus for scientific purposes
- Distribution boards [electricity]
- Distribution boxes [electricity]
- Distribution consoles [electricity]
- Dive skins
- Divers' masks
- Diving suits*
- DNA chips
- Dog whistles
- Dosage dispensers, not for medical use [measuring apparatus]
- Dosimeters
- Downloadable application software for virtual environments
- Downloadable computer software applications for minting non-fungible tokens [NFTs]
- Downloadable computer software for managing cryptocurrency transactions using blockchain technology
- Downloadable digital image files authenticated by non-fungible tokens [NFTs]
- Downloadable digital music files authenticated by non-fungible tokens [NFTs]
- Downloadable e-wallets
- Downloadable emoticons for mobile telephones / downloadable emoticons for cell phones
- Downloadable graphics for mobile telephones / downloadable graphics for cell phones
- Downloadable image files
- Downloadable music files
- Downloadable ring tones for mobile telephones / downloadable ring tones for cell phones
- Downloadable software for generating cryptographic keys for receiving and spending cryptocurrency
- Downloadable video files
- Downloadable virtual clothing
- Drainers for use in photography / photographic racks
- Dressmakers' measures
- Droppers for measuring, other than for medical or household purposes
- Dry suits
- Drying apparatus for photographic prints
- Drying racks [photography]
- Ducts [electricity]
- Dust masks incorporating air purification
- Dust measuring apparatus
- DVD players
- Dynamometers
- Ear pads for headphones
- Ear plugs for divers
- Earpieces for remote communication
- Effects pedals for guitars
- Egg timers [sandglasses] / hourglasses
- Egg-candlers
- Electric actuators
- Electric and electronic effects units for musical instruments
- Electric apparatus for commutation
- Electric door bells
- Electric installations for the remote control of industrial operations
- Electric linear actuators
- Electric loss indicators
- Electric plugs
- Electric sockets
- Electric wire harnesses for automobiles
- Electrical adapters
- Electricity conduits
- Electrified fences
- Electrified rails for mounting spot lights
- Electro-dynamic apparatus for the remote control of railway points
- Electro-dynamic apparatus for the remote control of signals
- Electrolysis apparatus for laboratory use
- Electromagnetic coils
- Electronic access control systems for interlocking doors
- Electronic agendas
- Electronic book readers
- Electronic collars to train animals
- Electronic controllers for servo motors
- Electronic digital displays
- Electronic interactive whiteboards
- Electronic key fobs being remote control apparatus
- Electronic notice boards
- Electronic oscillators
- Electronic pens for visual display units
- Electronic pocket translators
- Electronic publications, downloadable
- Electronic resonators
- Electronic sheet music, downloadable
- Electronic shelf labels
- Electronic storage media
- Electronic tags for goods
- Emergency drench showers
- Encoded identification bracelets, magnetic
- Encoded key cards
- Encoded magnetic cards
- Enlarging apparatus [photography]
- Epidiascopes
- Equalizers [audio apparatus] / equalisers [audio apparatus]
- Ergometers
- Exposure meters [light meters]
- Eyepieces
- Facsimile machines
- Fermentation apparatus for laboratory use
- Fibre optic cables / fiber optic cables
- Film cutting apparatus
- Films, exposed
- Filters for respiratory masks, not for medical purposes
- Filters for ultraviolet rays, for photography
- Filters for use in photography
- Finger sizers
- Fire alarms
- Fire beaters
- Fire blankets
- Fire escapes
- Fire extinguishers
- Fire extinguishing apparatus
- Fire hose nozzles
- Fire hoses
- Fire pumps
- Fire sprinklers
- Fire-extinguishing balls
- Flash lamps for smartphones
- Flash-bulbs [photography]
- Flashing lights [luminous signals]
- Flashlights [photography]
- Flasks for laboratory use
- Floppy disks
- Flowmeters
- Fluorescent screens
- Fog signals, non-explosive
- Foldable smartphones
- Food analysis apparatus
- Frames for photographic transparencies
- Frequency extenders
- Frequency meters
- Furnaces for laboratory use / ovens for laboratory use
- Furniture especially made for laboratories
- Fuse wire
- Fuses
- Galena crystals [detectors]
- Galvanic batteries
- Galvanic cells
- Galvanometers
- Gas testing instruments
- Gasometers [measuring instruments]
- Gauges
- Gene amplification apparatus for scientific research in laboratories
- Gimbals for digital cameras
- Gimbals for smartphones
- Glazing apparatus for photographic prints
- Global Positioning System [GPS] apparatus
- Gloves for divers
- Gloves for protection against accidents
- Gloves for protection against X-rays for industrial purposes
- Goggles for sports
- Grids for batteries
- Hairdressing training heads [teaching apparatus]
- Hand-held electronic dictionaries
- Hands-free kits for telephones
- Haptic suits, other than for medical purposes
- Head cleaning tapes [recording]
- Head guards for sports
- Head-mounted displays
- Head-up display apparatus for vehicles
- Headgear being protective helmets
- Headphones
- Headsets
- Headsets for playing video games
- Heat regulating apparatus
- Height measuring instruments
- Heliographic apparatus
- Hemline markers
- High-frequency apparatus
- Holders adapted for mobile telephones and smartphones / holders adapted for cell phones and smartphones
- Holders for electric coils
- Holograms
- Holographic projection apparatus
- Home automation hubs / smart home hubs
- Horns for loudspeakers
- Humanoid robots having communication and learning functions for assisting and entertaining people
- Humanoid robots with artificial intelligence for preparing beverages
- Humanoid robots with artificial intelligence for use in household cleaning and laundry
- Humanoid robots with artificial intelligence for use in scientific research
- Hydrometers
- Hygrometers
- Identification sheaths for electric wires
- Identification threads for electric wires
- Identity cards, magnetic
- Igniting apparatus, electric, for igniting at a distance / electric apparatus for remote ignition
- Ignition batteries
- In-car telephone handset cradles
- Incubators for bacteria culture
- Inductors [electricity]
- Infrared detectors
- Ink cartridges, unfilled, for printers and photocopiers
- Insulating gloves for protection against accidents
- Integrated circuit cards [smart cards] / smart cards [integrated circuit cards]
- Integrated circuits
- Interactive touchscreen terminals
- Intercommunication apparatus
- Interfaces for computers
- Internal cooling fans for computers
- Inverters [electricity]
- Ionization apparatus not for the treatment of air or water
- Jigs [measuring instruments]
- Joysticks for use with computers, other than for video games
- Juke boxes for computers
- Juke boxes, musical / coin-operated musical automata [juke boxes]
- Junction boxes [electricity]
- Junction sleeves for electric cables
- Knee-pads for workers
- Laboratory burettes / laboratory burets
- Laboratory centrifuges
- Laboratory pipettes
- Laboratory robots
- Laboratory trays
- Lactodensimeters
- Lactometers
- Lanyards for mobile telephones / lanyards for cell phones
- Laptop computers
- Lasers, not for medical purposes
- Lens hoods
- Lenses for astrophotography
- Letter scales
- Levelling instruments
- Levelling staffs [surveying instruments] / rods [surveying instruments]
- Levels [instruments for determining the horizontal]
- Life belts
- Life buoys
- Life jackets
- Life jackets for pets
- Life-saving apparatus and equipment
- Life-saving capsules for natural disasters
- Light dimmers [regulators], electric / light regulators [dimmers], electric
- Light-emitting diodes [LED]
- Light-emitting electronic pointers
- Lighting ballasts
- Lightning arresters
- Lightning conductors / lightning rods
- Limiters [electricity]
- Locks, electric
- Logs [measuring instruments]
- Loudspeakers
- Magic lanterns
- Magnetic data media
- Magnetic encoders
- Magnetic resonance imaging [MRI] apparatus, not for medical purposes
- Magnetic tape units for computers
- Magnetic tapes
- Magnetic wires
- Magnets*
- Magnifying glasses [optics]
- Marine compasses
- Marine depth finders
- Marking buoys
- Marking gauges [joinery]
- Masts for wireless aerials
- Material testing instruments and machines
- Materials for electricity mains [wires, cables]
- Mathematical instruments
- Measures
- Measuring apparatus
- Measuring devices, electric
- Measuring glassware / graduated glassware
- Measuring instruments
- Measuring spoons
- Mechanical signs
- Mechanisms for coin-operated apparatus
- Mechanisms for counter-operated apparatus
- Medical training simulators
- Megaphones
- Memory cards for video game machines
- Mercury levels
- Metal detectors for industrial or military purposes
- Meteorological balloons
- Meteorological instruments
- Metronomes
- Micrometer screws for optical instruments
- Micrometers / micrometer gauges
- Microphones
- Microprocessors
- Microscopes
- Microtomes
- Mileage recorders for vehicles / kilometer recorders for vehicles
- Mirrors [optics]
- Mirrors for inspecting work
- Missile warning systems
- Mobile telephones / cell phones
- Modems
- Money counting and sorting machines
- Monitoring apparatus, other than for medical purposes
- Monitors [computer hardware]
- Monitors [computer programs]
- Motion tracking mounts for cameras
- Motorcyclists' clothing for protection against accident or injury
- Mouse pads
- Mouth guards for sports
- Music sequencer devices
- Musical instrument digital interface controllers being audio interfaces
- Nanoparticle size analysers / nanoparticle size analyzers
- Nautical apparatus and instruments
- Naval signalling apparatus
- Navigation apparatus for vehicles [on-board computers]
- Navigational instruments
- Near field communication [NFC] tags
- Needles for record players / styli for record players
- Needles for surveying compasses
- Neon signs
- Nets for protection against accidents
- Neural helmets, not for medical purposes
- Nose clips for divers
- Notebook computers
- Nuclear batteries
- Objectives [lenses] [optics]
- Observation instruments
- Octants
- Ohmmeters
- Optical apparatus and instruments
- Optical character readers
- Optical condensers
- Optical data media
- Optical discs
- Optical fibres [light conducting filaments] / optical fibers [light conducting filaments]
- Optical glass
- Optical lanterns / optical lamps
- Optical lenses
- Organic light-emitting diodes [OLED]
- Oscillographs
- Oxygen transvasing apparatus
- Ozonizers for calibration purposes / ozone generators for calibration purposes
- Padlocks, electronic
- Parking meters
- Parking sensors for vehicles
- Particle accelerators
- Pedometers
- Peepholes [magnifying lenses] for doors
- Periscopes
- Personal digital assistants [PDAs]
- Personal stereos
- Petri dishes
- Petrol gauges / gasoline gauges
- Phonograph records / sound recording discs
- Photocopiers [photographic, electrostatic, thermic]
- Photometers
- Phototelegraphy apparatus
- Photovoltaic cells
- Piezoelectric sensors
- Pitot tubes
- Plane tables [surveying instruments]
- Planimeters
- Plates for batteries
- Plotters
- Plumb bobs
- Plumb lines
- Pocket calculators
- Point-of-sale [POS] terminals
- Polarimeters
- Polarizing films for displays
- Portable document scanners
- Portable media players
- Portable power chargers
- Portable speakers
- Portable ultrafine dust meters
- Precision balances
- Precision measuring apparatus
- Pressure gauges
- Pressure indicator plugs for valves
- Pressure indicators
- Pressure measuring apparatus
- Printed circuit boards
- Printed circuits
- Printers for use with computers*
- Prisms [optics]
- Probes for scientific purposes
- Processors [central processing units] / central processing units [processors]
- Projection apparatus
- Projection screens
- Protection devices against X-rays, not for medical purposes
- Protective face shields for workers
- Protective films adapted for computer screens
- Protective films adapted for smartphones
- Protective helmets
- Protective helmets for sports
- Protective masks, not for medical purposes
- Protective suits for aviators
- Protractors [measuring instruments]
- Punched card machines for offices
- Push buttons for bells
- Pyrometers
- Quantity indicators
- Quantum computers
- Quantum dot light-emitting diodes [QLED]
- Radar apparatus
- Radio pagers
- Radiological apparatus for industrial purposes
- Radiology screens for industrial purposes
- Radios
- Radiotelegraphy sets
- Radiotelephony sets
- Railway traffic safety appliances
- Range finders / telemeters
- Readers [data processing equipment]
- Rearview cameras for vehicles
- Record players
- Reflective articles for wear, for the prevention of accidents
- Reflective safety vests
- Refractometers
- Refractors
- Regulating apparatus, electric
- Regulators for diving
- Relays, electric
- Remote controls
- Rescue flares, non-explosive and non-pyrotechnic
- Rescue laser signalling flares
- Resistances, electric
- Respirators for filtering air, not for medical purposes
- Respiratory masks, not for medical purposes
- Resuscitation mannequins [teaching apparatus]
- Resuscitation training simulators
- Retorts
- Retorts' stands
- Revolution counters
- Rheostats
- Riding helmets
- Ring holders for mobile telephones / ring holders for cell phones
- Ring sizers
- Ring stands for mobile telephones / ring stands for cell phones
- Riot shields
- Road signs, luminous or mechanical
- Rods for water diviners
- Rulers [measuring instruments]
- Rules [measuring instruments]
- Saccharometers
- Safety nets / life nets
- Safety restraints, other than for vehicle seats and sports equipment
- Safety signs [luminous]
- Safety tarpaulins
- Salinometers
- Satellite finder meters
- Satellite navigational apparatus
- Satellites for scientific purposes
- Scales
- Scales with body mass analysers / scales with body mass analyzers
- Scanners [apparatus] for performing automotive diagnostics
- Scanners for data processing
- Screen protectors for mobile telephones / screen protectors for cell phones
- Screens [photography]
- Screens for photoengraving
- Screw-tapping gauges
- Security surveillance robots
- Security token hardware for user authentication
- Self-checkout terminals
- Selfie lenses
- Selfie ring lights for smartphones
- Selfie sticks [hand-held monopods]
- Semiconductors
- Sextants
- Sheaths for electric cables
- Shoes for protection against accidents, irradiation and fire
- Shutter releases [photography]
- Shutters [photography]
- Sighting telescopes for firearms / telescopic sights for firearms
- Signal bells
- Signal lanterns
- Signalling buoys
- Signalling panels, luminous or mechanical
- Signalling whistles
- Signals, luminous or mechanical
- Signs, luminous
- Simulators for the steering and control of vehicles
- Sirens
- Sleeves for laptops
- Slide calipers
- Slide projectors / transparency projection apparatus
- Slide-rules
- Slope indicators / clinometers / gradient indicators / inclinometers
- Smart rings
- Smart speakers
- Smartglasses
- Smartphones
- Smartwatches
- Smoke detectors
- Snorkels
- Software as a medical device [SaMD], downloadable
- Solar batteries
- Solar panels for the production of electricity
- Solderers' helmets
- Solenoid valves [electromagnetic switches]
- Sonars
- Sound locating instruments
- Sound recording apparatus
- Sound recording carriers
- Sound recording strips
- Sound reproduction apparatus
- Sound transmitting apparatus
- Sounding apparatus and machines
- Sounding leads
- Sounding lines
- Sounding rockets
- Spark-guards
- Speaking tubes
- Spectrograph apparatus
- Spectroscopes
- Speed checking apparatus for vehicles
- Speed indicators
- Speed measuring apparatus [photography]
- Speed regulators for record players
- Spherometers
- Spirit levels
- Spools [photography]
- Sports whistles
- Square rulers for measuring
- Squares for measuring
- Stage lighting regulators
- Stands adapted for laptops
- Stands for photographic apparatus
- Starter cables for motors
- Steering apparatus, automatic, for vehicles
- Step-up transformers
- Stereoscopes
- Stereoscopic apparatus
- Stills for laboratory experiments
- Straps for mobile telephones / straps for cell phones
- Stroboscopes
- Stylus pens for touchscreens
- Subwoofers
- Sulfitometers
- Surveying apparatus and instruments
- Surveying chains
- Surveying instruments
- Surveyors' levels
- Survival blankets
- Switchboards
- Switchboxes [electricity]
- Switches, electric
- T-squares for measuring
- Tablet computers
- Tachometers
- Tape recorders
- Taximeters
- Teaching apparatus
- Teaching robots
- Teeth protectors*
- Telecommunication apparatus in the form of jewellery / telecommunication apparatus in the form of jewelry
- Telegraph wires
- Telegraphs [apparatus]
- Telephone apparatus
- Telephone receivers
- Telephone transmitters
- Telephone wires
- Telepresence robots
- Teleprinters / teletypewriters
- Teleprompters
- Telerupters
- Telescopes
- Telescopic sights for artillery
- Television apparatus
- Temperature indicator labels, not for medical purposes
- Temperature indicators
- Terminals [electricity]
- Test tubes
- Testing apparatus not for medical purposes
- Theft prevention installations, electric
- Theodolites
- Thermal imaging cameras
- Thermionic valves / thermionic tubes
- Thermo-hygrometers
- Thermometers, not for medical purposes
- Thermostats
- Thermostats for vehicles
- Thin client computers
- Thin film speakers
- Thread counters
- Ticket dispensing terminals, electronic
- Ticket printers
- Time clocks [time recording devices]
- Time recording apparatus
- Time switches, automatic
- Tone arms for record players
- Toner cartridges, unfilled, for printers and photocopiers
- Totalizators
- Traffic cones
- Traffic mirrors
- Traffic signals for pedestrians
- Traffic-light apparatus [signalling devices]
- Transformers [electricity]
- Transistors [electronic]
- Transmitters [telecommunication]
- Transmitters of electronic signals
- Transmitting sets [telecommunication]
- Transparencies [photography] / slides [photography]
- Transparent conductive films for displays
- Transponders
- Triodes
- Tripods for cameras
- Ultrasonic imaging apparatus, not for medical purposes
- Urinometers
- USB flash drives
- User-programmable humanoid robots, not configured
- Vacuum gauges
- Vacuum tubes [radio]
- Variometers
- Vehicle breakdown warning triangles
- Vehicle radios
- Verniers
- Video baby monitors
- Video cassettes
- Video game cartridges
- Video mixing desks
- Video projectors
- Video recorders
- Video screens
- Video telephones
- Videotapes
- Viewfinders, photographic
- Virtual mirrors [interactive electronic displays]
- Virtual reality controllers
- Virtual reality headsets
- Viscosimeters
- Visors for helmets
- Voltage regulators for vehicles
- Voltage surge protectors
- Voltmeters
- Voting machines
- Wafers for integrated circuits
- Wah-wah pedals
- Walkie-talkies
- Warning signs [luminous]
- Washing trays [photography]
- Water level indicators
- Wavemeters
- Wearable activity trackers
- Wearable computers
- Wearable speakers
- Wearable video display monitors
- Weighbridges
- Weighing apparatus and instruments
- Weighing machines
- Weight belts for divers
- Weights*
- Wet suits
- Wheel alignment meters
- Whistle alarms
- Wind socks for indicating wind direction
- Wire connectors [electricity]
- Wireless portable printers for use with laptops and mobile devices
- Wireless speaker microphones
- Wires, electric
- Wrist rests for use with computers
- X-ray apparatus not for medical purposes
- X-ray films, exposed
- X-ray photographs, other than for medical purposes
- X-ray tubes not for medical purposes
What Class 9 does not include
Class 9 borders several classes, and the biggest modern trap is software delivered as a service. Note these exclusions:
| Product / service | Correct class |
|---|---|
| Software-as-a-service (SaaS); app development services | Class 42 |
| Industrial robots | Class 7 |
| Surgical robots | Class 10 |
| Toy robots | Class 28 |
| "Smart" products keeping their normal function (fridges, clothing) | the product's own class |
| Diving lamps and laboratory lamps | Class 11 |
| Emergency and rescue vehicles | Class 12 |
The rule of thumb: a downloadable or physical tech product is Class 9, but providing software or tech online as a service is Class 42, and a robot or "smart" device may be classified by its function instead.
Who files in Class 9 in Nepal?
Class 9 is the class of Nepal's digital economy. It is filed by IT companies and software houses, mobile-app startups, fintech and digital-wallet brands, electronics makers and importers, and edtech and hardware businesses. For a fintech wallet, Class 9 protects the downloadable app while the financial service itself is Class 36 — a classic multi-class filing. See protecting a tech startup's brand and protecting a fintech or wallet brand.
How to register a trademark in Class 9
Search the register for earlier tech marks, confirm Class 9 fits (and whether your offering is really a Class 42 service), 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.
Do you need more than one class?
For tech, almost always. A software product (Class 9) delivered as a hosted service (Class 42), a wallet app (Class 9) offering payments (Class 36), or a platform that also advertises (Class 35) — each needs its own class. Because Nepal files one class per application with per-class fees, map your product and services first. See choosing the right class, and the neighbouring Class 8 (Hand Tools) and Class 10 (Medical Devices).
A Nepal example
Consider a Kathmandu fintech startup with a digital-wallet app. The downloadable app itself is Class 9, so its brand is registered there. But the payment and money-transfer service the app provides is Class 36, and if the company builds software for other businesses, that development work is Class 42. One wallet brand can therefore need Class 9 for the app, Class 36 for the financial service, and Class 42 for development — filing only in Class 9 would leave the actual service unprotected. This multi-class reality is the single most important thing for Nepali tech founders to understand about Class 9.
Getting Class 9 right: common mistakes
The defining Class 9 mistake is the product-versus-service line. Founders file "our software" in Class 9 and assume they are covered, when the value they actually sell — a hosted platform, an online service — is a Class 42 (or 35, 36, 38) service. A downloadable app is a Class 9 good; running it as a service is a service class.
A second pitfall is "smart" everyday products: a smart fridge or smart garment that keeps its normal function is classified by that function, not automatically in Class 9. A third is forgetting that Class 9 is enormous, so an over-broad specification invites conflict — name your real goods, such as "downloadable mobile application for payments". For most tech businesses, the right answer is a small basket of classes filed together.
Why precise Class 9 filing matters
Tech brands scale fast and attract copycats faster, so getting the class map right early is critical. A precise Class 9 specification — "downloadable software for X" — plus the right service classes protects what you actually sell and avoids the false comfort of a single, mis-scoped filing. Because Nepal is first-to-file, the date you lodge secures your priority in a fast-moving market where a competitor or squatter can register your app name ahead of you. For a startup, an early, well-mapped Class 9 (plus 42/36/35) filing is foundational brand protection, not an afterthought.
Class 9 filing checklist
- Decide: is it a downloadable product (Class 9) or an online service (Class 42/35/36/38)?
- Check the exclusions — SaaS, robots, "smart" products by function.
- Search the register for similar tech marks.
- Draft a precise goods specification.
- Map the service classes you also need and file them together.
- File with the Department of Industry and track to registration.
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