SBLAW would like to provide you our guideline for industrial design in Vietnam as follows:
1. Conducting search of registrability of industrial design in Vietnam (Optional)
In order to verity the registrabiility of industrial design in Vietnam, applicant should conduct search of registrabiility.
Time Frame: 10 working days.
2 .Time Frame of industrial design registration in Vietnam
Vietnam Industrial Design shall be passed through three stages:
| Time Frame | Content of Examination | |
| Formality examination | 1 month from the filing date (if all required document is submitted) or from the date of supplementation of all documents. | Examination of formality of industrial design application |
| Publication of industrial design application | 2 months counted from the date of acceptance of
industrial design application |
Publishing industrial design application in IP Gazette |
| Substantive examination | 9 months from the publication date of required date | Examination of criteria of protection of industrial design application.. |
3. Required document for filing industrial design application in Vietnam
- Power of Attorney (provided by SBLAW).
- Name and address of
+ Applicant
+ Designer
- Title of industrial design
- Six (05) sets of photographs/drawings in the same ratio comprising front, back, top, bottom, left, right and perspective views. Dimension of representation should not be larger than 210 mm x 297 mm (A4 size) and not be smaller than 90 mm x 120 mm.
