Trademark in vietnam

Client: I'm a trademark attorney from Russia. My client is interested in trademark (word mark, 1 class) registration in Vietnam. Will you inform me about our service cost, official fees and the time it will take to finish the registration procedure?  Lawyer: Thank for your email regarding the subject matter. As...

Almost of trade marks have to register to be protected, it is not natural protection. However, Well known trade mark need not register to protect, it shall be natural protection if it is suitable for all of its conditon[...]

  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 –...

Please be advised that In Vietnam, multi-class applications are acceptable i.e. an application can be filed for more than one class of goods or service with payment of additional fee for additional class. Class headings or general description of goods/services is no longer acceptable[...]

Questions: What is the purpose of registering the company name? Please advise how long it takes to receive trademark registration?

Question: Could you please send me a fee quote for the following: 1) Registration of a word mark (English word mark); 2) Registration of a word mark (Vietnamese word mark); and 3) Registration of a logo in Vietnam? Many thanks  Answer:  We refer to your below email  concerning the subject matter. In the response, we would...

Trademark (TM) infringement in Vietnam is mushrooming in both intensity and scope[...]

If the applicant to whom the National Office Intellectual Property (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,[...]

A trademark search prior to filing a trademark application is not compulsory, however it is highly recommended by us to save time and costs since the duration for trademark registration in Vietnam is rather long, in around one year[...]

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...

Trade marks are eligible for protection under Vietnamese law provided that these are visible signs in the form of letters, words, drawings or images including holograms, or a combination of these, represented in one or more colours. In Vietnam three-dimensional signs (shapes) can be registered as trade marks, but trade...

Question: Our company want to maintain its Cambodia trademark registration, would you please: - Specify whether each above operation should be recorded, or we can skip these steps and record a transfer from A to B; - If this first solution doesn’t apply, let us know, for each step, what documents...

1. Documents, samples, information identifying a mark registered for protection in a mark registration application include:

Client: Our company located in Singapore and exported our cosmetics to southeast asian countries. For this reason we would like to apply for our main brand to Hongkong, Vietnam,Malay Indonesia and India. Pleasel let us know if you can apply for our company and estimation for registration fee and total expenses for management and necessity document. Your early...

Question: One of our client needs to file a application in Vietnam. Please let us have your latest schedule of fee and help us to answer the following questions: 1.Please introduce the brief process for filling a application(including  substantive examination) and how long it may take to grant a patent since the filing...