Amendment and supplementation of Vietnam patent applications

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

Notification of the Substantive Examination Results of patent application

On the date of expiration of the time limit for substantive examination of an application at the latest, the NOIP shall send to the applicant one of the following notices:

Protection of Utility Model in Laos

If your company would like to protect utility model in Laos, SBLAW would like to provide you some information about the legal procedure of filing utility model in Laos as follows:

New Utility Model Application in Vietnam

In order to file an utility solution application in Vietnam, applicant is required to provide with us the following document:

Filing the patent application in Vietnam

In order to obtain the patent right in Viet Nam, you must file the application for granting a Patent (for Invention and for Utility solution separately), directly or by mail, to the National Office of Intellectual Property of Viet Nam (NOIP) or its branches offices in Ho Chi Minh City or Da Nang[...]
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Protection of Utility model in Cambodia

SBLAW - an IP international Agent would like to introduce some information about the procedure of filling Utility Model in Cambodia as follows:

Right of prior use of inventions

Where a person has, before the publication date of an invention registration application, used or prepared necessary conditions for use of an invention identical with the protected invention stated in such registration application but created independently [...]

Required document for filling patent in Vietnam

In order to file a patent in Vietnam, inventor has to provide these following documents[...]

Characters of invention

An invention shall be considered novel if it has not yet been publicly disclosed through use or by means of a written description or any other form, inside or outside the country, before the filing date or the priority date, as applicable, of the invention registration application[...]

Formality examination of Vietnam patent

A patent application filed with the NOIP shall be subject to formal examination for evaluating its validity.
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Q&A: File a patent application at Vietnam through PCT route

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...
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Patent in Vietnam

The required documents for filling patent in Vietnam

Vietnam National Phase of PCT application

SBLaw would like to provide inventor Vietnam National Phase of PCT application as follows:

China National Intellectual Property Administration Amended GUIDELINES FOR PATENT EXAMINATION (2025)

Recently, China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) has issued a decision on amending  the GUIDELINES FOR PATENT EXAMINATION (Order No. 84 of the CNIPA). The newly amended GUIDELINES FOR PATENT EXAMINATION will  take  effect on January 1, 2026. The amendments focus on  improving  patent examination  standards and optimizing examination rules  for new fields...

Enquiry for National Phase Entry in Vietnam

Client: We have a client is considering filing national phase entry in Vietnam. The patent has 01 independent claims, 19 pages of English specification and 3,085 words of specification. Please provide us with your cost estimate (inclusive of official fees, translation costs, your professional fees and disbursements) for entering this application in Vietnam. We await...