Patent Examination Procedure under Vietnam IP Law

Patent examination procedure is regulated as follows:

Obligation to use inventions

wners of inventions are obliged to manufacture protected products or apply protected processes to satisfy the requirements of national defense, security, disease prevention and treatment and nutrition for the people or to meet other social urgent needs.

Procedures related to patents in Vietnam

1. General provisions on maintenance of validity of protection titles Invention patents shall each have a validity starting from the grant date and expiring at the end of 20 years after the filing date/ the international filing date.Invention patent’s validity should be maintained annually. Utility solution patents shall have a validity...

Register your Patent In Cambodia

If you would like to register your patent in Cambodia, SBLAW would like to give you some information about the legal procedure of filling patent in Cambodia as follows:

Division of Vietnam patent applications

The applicant may divide,on his/her own initiative or upon the request of the NOIP,his/her application (division and transfer of one or several technical solutions in an invention registration application,[...]

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:

Required documents of patent application in Vietnam

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

Subject matters are not protected as invention

Scientific discoveries or theories, mathematical methods[....]

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Formality examination of Vietnam patent

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

Invention and base for the emergence and establish of invention

An invention means a technical solution in form of a product or a process which is intended to solve a problem by application of laws of nature[...]

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