DOI Fee Payment in Nepal: How the Fee Schedule Works and How to Pay It Safely
DOI fee payment in Nepal: the official fee schedule for trademarks, patents and designs, the per-class and per-year logic, and the discipline that avoids lapses.
Official fees at the Department of Industry are the smallest predictable cost in Nepalese IP — and the easiest to get wrong, because they are priced per class, per year or per term, revised over time, and confirmed at the counter rather than quoted from memory.
This guide sets out DOI fee payment in Nepal as practitioners handle it: the current schedule, how the pricing logic multiplies, and the payment discipline that keeps a filing or renewal from going sideways at the last step.
In short
DOI fee payment in Nepal follows the PDTA's Schedule 3 as revised by current practice: trademarks — NPR 1,000 application and NPR 5,000 registration per class, NPR 3,500 renewal per class (NPR 4,500 in grace), NPR 2,000 assignment or licence recordal, NPR 1,000 record change; patents — NPR 1,000 to file, NPR 7,000 to register, annual maintenance of NPR 5,000/year (years 7–14) and NPR 7,500/year (years 14–21); designs — NPR 1,000 and NPR 7,000, with NPR 1,000/year and NPR 2,000/year maintenance. Fees are paid at the Department per event, receipts retained, and exact rates confirmed before payment — the schedule is revised from time to time, and a fee paid at the wrong rate or for the wrong class does not fix a deadline.
The schedule: what each filing event costs
Fees are fixed by Schedule 3 of the PDTA and its Rules, revised by amendment over time; the figures below reflect current practice at publication. The Department confirms applicable rates at payment — which is the standing caveat on every fee table, including this one.
| Filing event | Fee (NPR) |
|---|---|
| Application, per class | 1,000 |
| Registration, per class | 5,000 |
| Renewal, per class (7-year term) | 3,500 |
| Renewal in grace (incl. NPR 1,000 fine) | 4,500 |
| Assignment recordal, per mark | 2,000 |
| Licence recordal, per mark | 2,000 |
| Name/address change, per mark | 1,000 |
| Certified copy / certificate | 1,000 |
Patent and design fees: per year, per term
Patent fees are annual inside each renewal term — the structure that makes a Nepalese patent a year-by-year maintain-or-lapse decision. Design fees run per term, cheaply.
| Filing event | Fee (NPR) |
|---|---|
| Patent application (Schedule 1(a)) | 1,000 |
| Patent registration | 7,000 |
| Patent maintenance, years 7–14 (per year) | 5,000 |
| Patent maintenance, years 14–21 (per year) | 7,500 |
| Design application (Schedule 1(b)) | 1,000 |
| Design registration | 7,000 |
| Design maintenance, years 5–10 (per year) | 1,000 |
| Design maintenance, years 10–15 (per year) | 2,000 |
| Patent / design assignment recordal | 5,000 / 3,000 |
The pricing logic that multiplies your total
Three structural rules decide the final number. Per class for trademarks: a five-class brand is five of everything — 5 × NPR 1,000 at filing, 5 × NPR 5,000 at registration, 5 × NPR 3,500 every 7-year renewal. Per year for patents: maintenance is an annual line inside each term, so a dormant invention costs every year it is kept. Per mark, per event for recordals: transfers, licences and changes are cheap (NPR 1,000–2,000), which makes register hygiene nearly free — and a stale register a choice.
DOI fee payment in Nepal: paying safely, step by step
Fee payment fails in predictable ways, and each has a habit that prevents it:
Confirm the current rate
The schedule is revised from time to time; figures quoted from memory — including this guide's — are planning inputs, not payment instructions. Confirm the applicable rate with the Department (or your agent) before paying.
Count the per-class and per-year quantity
The commonest error is paying for one class of a three-class mark, or one year of a multi-year maintenance. Match the payment to the exact number of classes, marks or years the event covers.
Pay inside the window, with margin
Deadline-bearing payments — renewals above all — should be paid days early, not on the last day. The 35-day renewal window closes hard, and a payment that misses it moves you into the NPR 4,500 grace rate or worse.
Keep the receipt with the file
The receipt is the proof of payment and the date anchor for the file. File it with the application or certificate it belongs to; a renewal is complete when the register reflects the renewed term, and the receipt is what you produce if the record needs chasing.
Verify the register updated
After recordals and renewals, confirm the register entry actually changed — name, address, term. The fee is not the outcome; the register is.
Who pays: domestic applicants and foreign filers
Domestic applicants pay at the Department directly — in person or through an agent — with fees denominated in NPR. Foreign applicants route everything through their local agent under the Power of Attorney: the agent calculates the per-class quantity, pays in local currency, and returns the receipt with the filing confirmation. For foreign-owned portfolios, the payment logistics are one more reason to keep the agent mandate and the fee calendar current — an agent transition at renewal time is how avoidable lapses happen.
Fee concessions on the horizon
The proposed Industrial Property Bill 2082 — in the parliamentary process — discusses fee relief for micro-enterprises as part of its modernisation package. Until it is enacted, the current schedule governs every payment: budget with the figures above, confirm at the counter, and treat the receipt-and-verify habit as the last step of every filing.
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