What Can Be Patented in Nepal? Novelty, Step & Utility (2026)

What can and cannot be patented in Nepal — the three patentability tests of novelty, inventive step and indust...

How to Get a Patent in the European Union

European patent registration is the process of filing a single patent application with the European Patent Off...

The inventions Nepal will not patent — discoveries, abstract ideas, mere schemes, obvious or non-novel inventi...

Nepal has no separate utility model (petty patent) law — here is what a utility model is internationally, how...

How patent protection works in Nepal — the exclusive rights a patent grants, what's protectable, the DoI grant...

The Hague System for industrial designs is an international filing treaty that Nepal has not joined, requiring...

Patent publication in Nepal occurs when the Department of Industry publishes your accepted invention in the In...

The Statute of Monopolies, enacted by the English Parliament in 1624, is the first true patent law in history.

An industrial design protects how a product looks and a patent protects how it works — this guide shows which...