Patent in vietnam

Q: We are a Japan company who intend to file a patent application at  Vietnam,  through PCT route claiming priority of our national patent application filed at the Japan patent office on December 21, 2012.  A: Thank you for your letter. As your requirement, we would like to advise you on fee...

Documents identifying an invention registered for protection in an invention registration application shall include a description of the invention and an abstract of the invention[...]

Applicants should be aware of the examination process a patent going through the National Office of Intellectual Property of Viet Nam (NOIP). This process is begun with the filing of a patent application with NOIP and completed by granting a patent. (1) Filing the application In order to obtain the patent...

wners of inventions are obliged to manufacture protected products or apply protected processes to satisfy the requirements of national defense, security, disease prevention and treatment and nutrition for the people or to meet other social urgent needs.

Viet Nam adopts the first-to-file system, i.e. where two or more applications are filed by many different parties for registration of the same invention[...]

Question: We would like to know the procedure for protecting the patent in Vietnam, please advise? Answer: Regarding your enquiries concerning the subject matter, we would like to advise you procedure  in relation to the patent registration proceeding in Vietnam as follows: 1.PATENT/UTILITY SOLUTION REGISTRATION Protection criteria: A patent shall be eligible for...

To have the validity of his/her invention protection title maintained, a protection title holder shall pay a validity maintenance fee within six months before the expiration of the validity term[...]

The Science and Technology Ministry shall issue decisions on licensing of inventions based on the consideration of requests for licensing in the cases below after consulting opinions of the Science and Technology Ministry[...]

Before the NOIP issues any of notices specified at Point 17.1.a of this Circular,an applicant may request the NOIP to record the transfer of his/her application to another person[...]

To file a patent in Vietnam, required documents of patent application are as follows

Before the NOIP issues a notice of its refusal to grant a protection title or a decision on the grant of a protection title[...]

An substantive examination of the application will be carried out only for which the applicant or a third party has filed a request for examination and paid the examination fees within 42 months as of the filing date or the priority date, as applicable, and the time limit for making request for substantive examination of an patent application involving a request for a utility solution patent shall be 36 months counting from the filing date or the priority date, as applicable.

Guideline for non-PCT Patent in Vietnam[...]

IP Vietnam Law regulated the publication of Vietnam patent application as follows[...]