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Nepal IP in Numbers

A data snapshot of intellectual property in Nepal. The trademark figures below are computed directly from our index of 70,608+ marks published in the Department of Industry’s Industrial Property Bulletin — exact, not estimated. (These are published/accepted marks; some are still within the opposition window or pending final registration.) Copyright, patent and design figures are the only aggregates Nepal publishes (with sources noted). Search the database →

70,608Published trademarks
27,841Applicants / owners
100Countries of origin
121Bulletin issues

10 things the data shows

1About 60% of published marks are Nepali-owned; 40% come from abroad — brands from 100 countries protect their names in Nepal.
2Class 30 (Coffee, tea, cocoa, sugar, rice, t...) is the busiest of all — 10,631 marks.
3Filings have surged about 132% — from 2,286 in 2010 to 5,301 in 2024.
4All 45 of the 45 NICE classes are in active use in Nepal.
5The single most prolific applicant is ITC LIMITED — 186 marks.
6Roughly 67% of marks carry a logo or device (47,360 with artwork on file).
7The record reaches back to 1994 — over 32 years of Nepali trademark history.
827,841 distinct applicants and owners appear across the dataset.
92024 was the busiest year on record — 5,301 marks published.
10Food and drink lead: alcoholic beverages (class 33) and soft drinks and beers (class 32) both rank in the top handful of classes.

Trademark filings by year (2010–2025)

Marks by filing year, from the bulletins. Filings have grown steadily — a sign of a maturing brand economy.

2,286
2010
2,861
2011
3,115
2012
3,098
2013
3,407
2014
3,171
2015
3,461
2016
4,176
2017
4,589
2018
3,630
2019
3,223
2020
4,471
2021
4,492
2022
4,418
2023
5,301
2024
5,216
2025

Busiest trademark classes

Where Nepal files most — the top 8 of 45 NICE classes by number of published marks.

Class 30 · Coffee, tea, cocoa, sugar, rice, tapioca,...
10,631
Class 33 · Alcoholic beverages (except beers).
5,697
Class 3 · Bleaching preparations and other substance...
4,923
Class 5 · Pharmaceutical and veterinary preparations...
4,767
Class 35 · Advertising; business management; business...
3,771
Class 32 · Beers; mineral and aerated waters and othe...
3,665
Class 9 · Scientific, nautical, surveying, photograp...
3,498
Class 34 · Tobacco; smokers' articles; matches.
2,957

What Nepal’s marks look like

44,685Word & logo marks
23,080Word-only marks
2,843Logo-only marks
47,360Mark logos on file

Copyright registrations

Nepal’s Copyright Registrar’s Office publishes only an aggregate count — there is no public per-work register. 3,427 works were on record cumulatively (through Ashadh 2083 (mid-2026)), 393 of them added in the latest fiscal year.

Literature (books, scripts, lyrics, screenplays)
2,502
Sound recordings
332
Art & painting
185
Computer software
86
Architectural designs
47
Other 9 categories (translation, magazine, film, pho...
275

Source: Nepal Copyright Registrar’s Office official summary. Literature makes up roughly three-quarters of all registrations.

Patents & industrial designs

Unlike trademarks, Nepal does not publish a per-record register for patents or industrial designs, and grants very few — patents number in the single-to-low-double digits per year. Only aggregate application/grant counts are available, via the WIPO country profile and the Department of Industry’s industrial statistics. There is no searchable patent or design dataset in Nepal — the trademark register is the only IP right published at the record level.

Methodology & sources

  • Trademarks: computed from IP Sewa’s index of 70,608 marks published in 121 Department of Industry Industrial Property Bulletins (published/accepted marks, not all finally registered). Exact counts, refreshed with each new issue.
  • Copyright: the Nepal Copyright Registrar’s Office aggregate summary (through Ashadh 2083 (mid-2026)); category figures are approximate where the source is a scanned table, with the total held exact.
  • Patents & designs: no per-record data is published by DoIND; aggregate counts via WIPO / DoIND industrial statistics.

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