Documents of trademark applciations in Vietnam
Documents of trademark applications in Vietnam includes[...]
Guidance for filling trademark in Vietnam
If client would like to file a trademark in Vietnam, S&B Law would like to provide our guidance as follows[...]
Acts of infringing upon the rights to trademark
The following acts if being performed without the permission of mark owners, shall be regarded as infringements of the rights to marks:
Requirements on trademark registration applications
1. Documents, samples, information identifying a mark registered for protection in a trade mark registration application include:
Trademark international applications
“Madrid applications” are referred to the applications for international registration of marks filed under the Madrid Agreement or the Madrid Protocol, including[...]
Registration applications on trademark in Vietnam
1. Documents, samples, information identifying a mark registered for protection in a mark registration application include:
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...
Termination of validity of protection of trademark
Its owner fails to pay the validity maintenance or prolongation fee as prescribed[...]
Principle of priority
An applicant for registration of a trade mark may claim priority on the basis of the first application for registration of protection of the same subject matter if the following conditions are fully satisfied[...]
Registering trade mark and Time to protect a trademark
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[...]
Types of trademark
There are 4 types of trade marks: collective trade mark, Certification trade mark, Integrated trade marks, Well known trade mark[...]
Registering for trademark
Every organizations, individual doing business, or any entity has right to apply for registering trade mark for their own goods and service.
What are natural signs not protected as trademarks?
According to Intellectual property law, there are some signs shall be ineligible for protection as marks:
What is a trademark not to be capable of distinguishing under Vietnam IP Law?
A mark shall be deemed to be indistinctive if it is a sign falling into one of the following categories:
How to protect trademarks?
A mark shall be eligible for protection when it satisfies the following conditions:
It is a visible sign in the form of letters, words, drawings or images including holograms, or a combination thereof, represented in one or more colours. But the most important, the mark is capable of distinguishing goods...
