Patent Examination Procedure in Vietnam
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...
Requirements on invention registration applications
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[...]
How to write a patent specification?
Title of the invention. The title of the invention is designed to describe the essence of the invention in a few words. The title must clearly and concisely indicate the subject matter to which the invention/innovation relates and must be the same as the title on the Request Form and...
Compulsory licensing of inventions
In the following cases, the right to use an invention may be licensed to another organization or individual under a decision of the competent state agency without permission from the holder of exclusive right to use such invention[...]
Vietnam – Filing new utility solution
In order to file an utility solution application in Vietnam, client is required to provide with us the following document:
Patent in Vietnam
The required documents for filling patent in Vietnam
The Decision of Refusal of patent application
If the applicant to whom the NOIP has sent a notice on its intended refusal of the application fails to correct errors or unsatisfactorily corrects errors or makes no opposition or makes unreasonable opposition to the intended rejection within the set time limit[...]
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 [...]
Guideline for non-PCT Patent in Vietnam
Guideline for non-PCT Patent in Vietnam[...]
What is the patent in Vietnam?
1. Definition
Invention means a technical solution in the form of a product or a process which is intended to solve a problem by application of laws of nature.
An invention shall be protected by mode of grant of invention patent or utility solution patent.
2. Technical solutions
Technical solution - the object...
PCT Regime in Vietnam
S&B Law would like to provide you guideline for PCT Regime in Vietnam as follows[...]
Registration of Patent in Laos
SBLAW - IP internatioanl agent would like to give you some information about legal procedure of registration of patent in Laos as follows:
Vietnam National Phase of PCT application
SBLaw would like to provide inventor Vietnam National Phase of PCT application as follows:
Provisional rights to inventions
Where an applicant for registration of an invention knows that such invention is being used by another person without prior use right for commercial purposes[...]














