Industrial design registration

May 31 23:51 2016

SBLAW would like to provide the client the legal procedure to register industrial design in Vietnam as follows:

1. Procedure

 Protection criteria:

A industrial design shall be eligible for protection in the form of the grant of a Patent for Industrial Design when it satisfies the following conditions:

2.Validity of Patent for Industrial Design:

Patent for Industrial Design shall have a validity starting from the granting date and expiring at the end of 05 years counting from the filing date. It may be renewed for two consecutive terms, each of 05 years.

3.Procedure and timeline:

An industrial design application will be examined through the following process:

Kindly note that the term for registration process normally takes longer to several months in practice due to the workload of the NOIP and the slow examination process by the NOIP’s examiner.

5.Required documents and information:

For us to filing a patent application, the following documents/information should be provided:

• The Power of Attorney which is only simply to be signed by the Applicant, neither notarization nor legalization is required;
• Name and address of:
• Applicant;
• Author(s) of industrial design;
• Title of the industrial design;
• Indication of the kind of products for which the industrial design is to be used;
• Priority document (if any);
• The set of picture of the industrial design under the guideline of SBLAW;