PATENT REGISTRATION IN VIET NAM

Question: Kindly provide us with your best quotation for Patent Registration in Vietnam. We look forward to hearing from you soon.

Answer: Regarding your enquiries concerning the subject matter, we would like to advise you on procedure and our fee schedule in relation to the patent registration proceeding as follows:

1. Procedure

a) Protection criteria:

A patent shall be eligible for protection in the form of the grant of a Patent for Invention or a Patent for Utility solution when it satisfies the following conditions:

According to your email, as the international preliminary report on patentability of WIPO, the invention is novel but not of an inventive step. Therefore, it shall be eligible for protection in the form of the granting Patent for Utility solution.

Currently, a number of countries and regional patent offices provide utility model protection. These include: Albania, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Belarus, Belize, Botswana, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, China, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Egypt, El Salvador, Estonia, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Hungary, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Mexico, Mongolia, Mozambique, Oman, Namibia, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Korea, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Swaziland, Tanzania, Thailand, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Viet Nam, ARIPO, OAPI and Andean Community.

b) Validity of Patent for Invention:

Patent for Invention shall have a validity starting from the granting date and expiring at the end of 20 years counting from the filing date.

Patent for Utility Solution shall have a validity starting from the granting date and expiring at the end of 10 years counting from the filing date.

c) Procedure and timeline:

A patent application will be examined through the following process:

d) Required documents and information:
The following documents/information should be provided:

i. The Power of Attorney which is only simply to be signed by the Applicant, neither notarization nor legalization is required (The copy of the POA can be accepted at the time of filing but the original one must be lodged within 01 monthfrom the filing date);

ii. The paper on assignment of the right to file an application in the national phase (if any) within 34 months from the date of priority;

iii.      The copy of the international application (if the applicant requests the entry into the national phase before the date of publication of the international publication);

iv. Name and addressof:

- Applicant;

- Author(s) of invention/utility solution;

v. A soft copy in word format of the English specification of the application for translation into Vietnamese is requested to provide via email at the time of instruction.

vi. The claims and specification of the Patent.

2. Fee schedule

The basic fees are calculated based on the number of independent claim, pages of specification, priority claims and words of specification of the patent. Please determine the designated countries for filing, we will send you the correspndent fee.

The list below includes the filing deadlines of several countries. If you want to know about deadlines of other countries in the aforementioned list, please contact for detailed information.

We hope the above is of your assistance. Should you have any inquiries, please do not hesitate to contact us. We look forward to hearing from you soon.