Competence and procedures for licensing of inventions under compulsory decisions

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[...]

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...

Required documents of patent application in Vietnam

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

Q&A: Registration of patent in Vietnam and USA

Q: We are Vietnam company and would like to know the legal procedure to register patent in Vietnam and USA? A: Further to our question egarding the registration of patent in Vietnam and USA, SBLAW would like to advise you on procedure and fee for registering patent in these jurisdictions: 1. ...

Distinguishing Between Patents and Utility Solutions: Expert Insights from SBLAW

"Currently, many individuals and enterprises mistakenly equate patents with utility solutions. This is a common misconception in Intellectual Property Law, which can easily lead to incorrect protection strategies and regrettable losses of commercial exclusivity." – Stated by the Executive Attorney of SBLAW Law Firm during an interview on the...

How to protect our patent in Vietnam?

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...

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...

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[...]

Vietnam National Phase of PCT application

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

Protection of Utility Model in Vietnam

SBLAW would like to introduct the procedure of filing utility model in Vietnam as follows:

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...

Transfer of Vietnam patent applications

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[...]