Intellectual property · Kathmandu
Advocate Astha Sharma — counsel on trademarks, patents, and designs in Nepal.
Practice
Nepal’s industrial-property system is territorial, local, and unforgiving of missed diaries. The work is to put a usable right on the register — and to keep it in a condition that can be defended if someone else uses it.
The instruments
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Searches, class strategy, filing, examination, bulletin watching, oppositions, and renewals before the Department of Industry.
Search · Strategy · Filing · Examination · Publication · Opposition · Registration · Renewal
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National filings and confirmatory patents. Nepal is not in the PCT, so protection here needs its own application and its own clock.
Priority · Application · Examination · Grant / confirmation
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Registration of shape, pattern, and ornament, timed with a launch or with the brand that sits on the same goods.
Shape · Pattern · Ornament · Registration timing
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Bulletin oppositions, Department disputes, and court action when the market will not wait for the register.
Bulletin opposition · Department dispute · Court action
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How a matter starts
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Send the mark, invention, or product, the goods or services, and whether a home filing already exists.
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We confirm the forum, the diary, and whether a search, a filing, or an enforcement note is the first useful step.
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Local papers go to the Department of Industry. Foreign counsel receive a Nepal-shaped plan, not a translated form.
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Examination, publication, opposition windows, renewals, and — if the market turns — a letter or a pleading.
Search
Strategy
Filing
Examination
Publication
Opposition
Registration
Renewal
Who this is for
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Brand owners
Companies and founders who need a Nepal filing that matches how the mark is actually used — and a register entry that can be renewed and enforced.
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Foreign attorneys
Firms that need a local agent who will read the Paris clock, explain Department practice in plain English, and report without padding.
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In-house and regional counsel
Portfolios that treat Nepal as a listed country, not an afterthought — including watching, oppositions, and coordinated enforcement.
About
Astha Sharma is an advocate in Kathmandu with more than five years of experience, including substantial litigation. That courtroom work shapes how she files: the record has to stand up, the strategy has to be commercial, and the client should always know the next step. Day to day that means searches, drafting, office actions, bulletin watching, and guiding foreign counsel through the Department of Industry.
The useful question is not what remedies exist. It is what needs to happen in the market, and how fast.
Insights
Bulletin oppositions, Department of Industry disputes, and when the courts are the right forum.
Long read →
What a design registration covers, how it sits next to a trademark, and when lookalikes belong in a letter or a pleading.
National filings, Paris priority, and confirmatory patents for foreign grants — treated as a listed country, not an afterthought.
Search, file, examine, publish, then register — and why the Industrial Property Bulletin still matters after grant.
Questions
The record
Enquire
A short note is enough to begin. Scope, diary, and next steps can follow.