Guidance for filling patent in Vietnam
If client would like to file an patent in Vietnam, SBLaw would like to provide our guidance as follows:
Maintenance of validity of patents
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[...]
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[...]
Subject matters are not protected as invention
Scientific discoveries or theories, mathematical methods[....]
Patent and the importance of 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.
