Answen: We are foreign company and have recently discovered that a few companies might have infringed its trademark rights and wishes to conduct searches on the companies to retrieve details of the companies and whether the companies are related.
We may wish to take action against the companies if the search results are supportive.
The information the client wishes to know are as follows:
1. Incorporation details, including the name (in Vietnamese and its English translation) and registered address, date of incorporation, names of directors and shareholders, company secretaries, representative lawyers, etc.
2. Information about any change of details above in the past and any information about the current status of the companies.
3. Information about whether the companies are associated or related to each other.
4. Information about trademark applications/registrations of the companies.
Since the above information will likely be used as support of possible infringement actions, documentary proof of the above should be necessary.
Please kindly confirm that you may conduct such searches. If yes, please quote to us the costs (including the official fees, your service fees and related disbursements) and the time required for obtaining the search results.
Question: Thank you for your email concerning the aforementioned subject matter. At your enquiry, we would like to advise you as below:
Regarding your enquiry, we would like to confirm that we could conduct the investigation for searching the following information:
1. Incorporation details, including the name (in Vietnamese and its English translation) and registered address, date of incorporation, names of directors, etc.
2. Information about any change of details above in the past of three years and any information about the current status of the companies.
3. Information about whether the companies are associated or related to each other.
4. Information about trademark applications/registrations of the companies.
The aforementioned information shall be collected by our own end without any verification from Vietnam Authority.
Our fee for taking the investigation in order to figure out the said information is US$900.00. This fee is exclusive 10% VAT and translation fee of documents: $US6/100 words.
Please consider the foregoing and let us have your further instruction in the matter. Should you have any further questions, kindly revert to us. We look forward to hearing from you soon.
We look forward to hearing from you soon.
