Patent in vietnam

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

Patent is an exclusive certification of inventor or patent owner by one nation in a certain time and the content of patent shall be published.

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[...]

The purpose of substantive examination of patent applications is to assess the patentability of objects claimed in the application under the requirements and corresponding protection scope[...]

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...

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[...]

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

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

A patent application filed with the NOIP shall be subject to formal examination for evaluating its validity.

As the leading IP firm in Vietnam focusing on patent prosecution and enforcement in Vietnam, SBLAW frequently help our client translate the specification of their patents before officially filing them into Vietnam Patent Office. Therefore, it is strongly believed that we could assist client in providing translation service from English...

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[...]

If the patent is granted, the NOIP shall request the applicant to pay the fee for the grant of a patent, the fee for notification of the patent grant decision, the registration fee and the fee for maintenance of the first year’s validity of the patent[...]

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:

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[...]

Patent attorney of SBLAW would like to provide client some information on basic comparison between patent and industrial design in Vietnam as follows:  Criteria Patent Design Note Subject matter claimed for protection A process, a method in which steps of these process and method shall be included.   A product: protect parts within a product and how...