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Well-Known Trademarks in Nepal: Recognition and Evidence Requirements
How well-known trademark protection works in Nepal — cross-class protection, who can claim it, and the evidence bundle that actually persuades the Department of Industry.
Read articleConverting Bikram Sambat (BS) to AD for IP Deadlines
Nepal's official documents run on the Bikram Sambat calendar while your deadlines run on yours — how BS–AD conversion works, where it goes wrong, and the habits that keep IP deadlines safe.
Read articleDefending a Trademark Opposition at the Department of Industry
Your application was opposed in Nepal — what happens now. Reading the grounds, the answer, evidence strategy, negotiation, and how registrable applications actually survive.
Read articleTrademark Strategies for Nepalese FMCG and Retail Brands
The FMCG playbook for Nepal: portfolio structure across product lines, bilingual marks, packaging and counterfeiting, distribution-driven risks, and the watch that holds it together.
Read articleThe Role of the Industrial Property Bulletin in Trademark Monitoring
What the Industrial Property Bulletin is, what it publishes, why it is the single most important document in Nepalese trademark monitoring, and how to work it systematically.
Read articleNepal's Status in WIPO and the WTO: TRIPS Compliance and LDC Exemptions
Where Nepal stands in the international IP architecture — WIPO membership and treaties, WTO/TRIPS obligations, the LDC exemptions that bend them, and the graduation clock.
Read articleThe 90-Day Opposition Window: Tracking Nepal's Industrial Property Bulletin
How Nepal's 90-day opposition window works, when it starts, what the Industrial Property Bulletin actually contains, and the monitoring discipline that keeps the window usable.
Read articleClaiming Paris Convention Priority in Nepal
How Paris Convention priority works in Nepalese filings — the 6/12-month windows, the documents and wording an application needs, and the mistakes that forfeit the earlier date.
Read articleThe Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) and Nepal: Navigating Direct National Filings
Nepal is not a PCT member — what that means for international patent applicants, how national-phase thinking must change, and the direct-filing strategy that works.
Read articleThe Patent Term in Nepal: Filing, Grant, and Maintenance Fees
How long a Nepalese patent lasts and what it costs to keep: the 7+7+7 structure behind the 21-year ceiling, grant-stage fees, annual maintenance, and the windows that keep it alive.
Read articleHow to Calculate Trademark Renewal Grace Periods in Nepal
The renewal timeline worked through with real dates: the 7-year term, the 35-day window, the 6-month grace, the fine — and the calculation method that leaves no ambiguity.
Read articleTrademark Registration for Franchises Operating in Nepal
The IP architecture of franchising in Nepal — registering the brand system, structuring master and unit licences, recordal, royalties and the FDI layer that sits underneath.
Read articleTrademark Strategies for Foreign Brands Entering the Nepalese Market
The market-entry playbook for foreign brands: clear and file before launch, structure the portfolio, manage distributors and partners, and build the enforcement stack.
Read articleUpdating Applicant Details: Name and Address Changes at the DOI
How to record name, address and correction changes on Nepalese trademark registrations — the endorsement procedure, fees, documents, and the risks of leaving the register stale.
Read articleCommon Reasons for Trademark Application Rejection in Nepal
Why Nepalese trademark applications are refused — the Section 18 grounds in practice, the procedural failures, and the pre-filing fixes that prevent most rejections.
Read articleDesign vs. Trademark: Overlapping Protection for Product Packaging
How Nepalese law protects packaging and trade dress — industrial design rights, trademark rights, where they overlap, and the layered strategy that outlives both individual registrations.
Read articleNavigating the Draft Industrial Property Bill: Proposed Changes
What Nepal's draft Industrial Property Bill proposes — consolidated modern statute, TRIPS-aligned terms, digital filing, well-known marks, border measures — and what it means until enacted.
Read articleIntellectual Property Clauses in Nepalese Employment Contracts
Who owns what employees and contractors create in Nepal — the IP-assignment clause, moral rights, confidentiality, post-employment limits, and the drafting that prevents disputes.
Read articleIP Due Diligence for Mergers and Acquisitions in Nepal
The IP diligence checklist for Nepalese M&A: verifying the register, chain of title, licences, encumbrances, the use file — and the deal-value questions buyers most often miss.
Read articleJudicial Review of DOI Decisions by the Patan High Court
How Department of Industry IP decisions are challenged in Nepal — the appeal path to the High Court, timelines and procedure, what courts review, and strategy for the losing side.
Read articleRecordal of IP License Agreements for Repatriation of Royalties
How recording an IP licence at the Department of Industry connects to paying royalties abroad — the recordal procedure, the NRB/banking layer, and structuring the agreement to survive both.
Read articleNovelty Requirements for Industrial Designs Under Nepalese Law
What makes a design 'new' under Nepal's PDTA — the novelty test, the disclosures that destroy it, grace-period reality, and how to prepare representations that register.
Read articlePatentable Subject Matter in Nepal: What Can and Cannot Be Patented
What qualifies as a patentable invention under Nepal's PDTA 1965 — the novelty, industrial-application and publicity tests, the exclusions, and the boundary cases inventors meet.
Read articlePharmaceutical Patent Filing in Nepal: LDC Transition and Current Practice
Why pharmaceutical products are not effectively patent-protected in Nepal today — the TRIPS LDC transition to 2033, what it means for filings, and what changes at LDC graduation.
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