Types of trademark
There are 4 types of trade marks: collective trade mark, Certification trade mark, Integrated trade marks, Well known trade mark[...]
Timeframe for registration of a trademark in Vietnam (13 – 15 months)
Time
Content
Details
5 – 10 days
Examine trademark
Examine the ability to register the trademark sucessfully
5 days
Draft application
Month: 1st – 2nd
Formal examination
The application shall be examined about the form:- enough required documents;
- classsify goods/service exactly
Results: The National Office of Intellectual Property of Vietnam (NOIP) will Notice on Formality Acceptance for Applicant.
Month: 3rd –...
Recordal of the assignment of trade mark
Question: Please advise the documentation required to attend to the recordal of the assignment of the marks into the new owner’s name?
Adopting the Vietnamese Version of the Nice Classification of Goods and Service 11-2018
From January 01, 2018, The Vietnamese version of the Nice Classification 11th Edition - version 2018 (NCL 11-2018), translated by the National Office of Intellectual Property (NOIP) from the English version published by WIPO, will be applied to the classification of goods and services for trademark registrations.
Applicants who do...
Notification of substantive examination results
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[...]
Filing a renewal request and a recordal of applicant’s name change for a trademark application in Vietnam
Question: Please kindly advise us of your total charges for filing a renewal request and a recordal of applicant’s name change for a trademark registration, including your official fees, attorney fees, approximate disbursements, and taxes, if any.
Please also kindly provide us with all the documents needed for filing such...
Vietnam Trademark Opposition Proceeding
Under the current IP Law of Vietnam, opposition is not considered as a seperate proceeding, it is only considered as a reference in the examination proceeding of trademark applications[...]
Enquiry regarding trademark registration in Vietnam
Question: Our company is desirous of securing trademark registration in Vietnam. We request you to provide us with the following details to proceed further.
1) Your comprehensive fee schedule (Statutory fees/Government fees and Professional Fees) including fee for Trademark availability search.
2) Approximate time to secure registration.
3) Documents required to file...
Renewal of Trademark in Vietnam
A trademark registration is valid for a period of ten years commencing from the filing date of the application and can be renewed for subsequent ten-year term, ad infinitum[...]
Protect your trademark in Vietnam
To protect your trademark in Vietnam, we would like to advise you on procedure and our fee schedule in relation to the trademark registration proceeding in Vietnam as follows[...]
Vietnam– Recordal of Trademark License Agreement
SBLAW would like to advise you on procedure for recordal of trademark license agreement and the related matters as follows:
Notification of the Intellectual Property Office regarding the unified application of the International Classification of Goods and Services under the Nice Agreement, Version 12-2025
On 27th December, 2024, the Intellectual Property Office issued Notice No. 4039/TB-SHTT regarding the unified application of the International Classification of Goods and Services under the Nice Agreement, Version 12-2025. Accordingly, the new classification has been officially applied since 1st January, 2025 and it has been published on the...
1. A protection of trade mark shall be entirely invalidated in the following cases:
a/ The registration applicant has neither had nor been assigned the right to register an invention,
industrial design, layout-design or mark;
b/ The subject matter of industrial property fails to satisfy the protection conditions at the time the
protection...
Refuse to accept the valid application in Vietnam
The refusal accept the valid application of trademark registration is realized as follows[...]
Recordal of Assignment Request for a Vietnamese Trademark Registration
Q: We are foreign company and would like to entrust your firm for the filing of a recordal of assignment request for the above-referenced Vietnamese trademark registration.
Please kindly advise us of your total charges for filing a recordal of assignment request for the above-referenced Vietnamese Trademark Registration, including both your...


















