The advantages of the Patent Cooperation Treaty The PCT is an international treaty with more than 150 Contracting States. The PCT makes it possible to seek patent protection for an invention simultaneously in a large number of countries by filing a single “international” patent application instead of filing several separate national or regional patent applications. … Read More
Legal Based: Law on Accounting 2015; Circular 297/2016/TT-BTC on granting, management and usage of certificates of eligible for providing accounting services. 1. Form of business a. An accounting firm may be established in the form as follows: A multi-member limited liability company; A partnership; A private enterprise. The accounting firm must not contribute capital to … Read More
Invention protection shall bring advantages for the owner of invention including the usage and application within the duration of 20 years. As Law on intellectual property of Vietnam, an invention patent shall be valid from the grant date until the end of twenty (20) years after the filing date. Register invention license in Vietnam Besides, … Read More
Vietnam Law on Intellectual Property allows any third party to have right to denounces the opposition of trademark applications for registration which have identical or confusingly similar signs. As from the date an application for registration of mark is published in the Official Gazette of Industrial Property up until prior to the date of issuance … Read More
Cancellation Against of Trademark in Vietnam The procedure to register a trademark in Vietnam is carried out at the National Office of Intellectual Property of Vietnam (NOIP). The duration calculated from the full receipt of the dossier to the announcement is at least 12 months, or it can be expended from 16 months to 18 … Read More
First pilot program between Vietnam National Office of Intellectual Property (NOIP) and Japanese Patent Office (JPO) NOIP and JPO have jointly undertaken the first Pilot Patent Prosecution Highway program (“PPH”) since 01st Apr, 2016. According to this bilateral PPH, the patent application filed at JPO (previously filed at NOIP) falling into one of the three following cases: … Read More
Business owners being organizations and individuals responsible for launching cosmetic products on the market are only allowed to put into circulation when the competent state agencies approve and the business owners must bear full responsibility for the safety, efficiency and product quality. Competent state agencies will conduct post-trade test when the products are being sold … Read More
Industrial design is the appearance of the product which is expressed through shapes, lines, colors or combinations of these factors. A product as being commercially marketed will have a certain style with a combination of certain shapes, lines, colors, etc.. which is the design of the product. When a new design to be launched, if … Read More
On September 19th 2016, the Ministry of Finance issued Circular 140/2016/TT-BTC prescribing the rate, regime of collection and payment of license fee to work on holiday for New Zealand and Australia citizens. Accordingly, the license fee rate to work on holiday for New Zealand and Australia citizens is 600,000 VND/time/person, applicable for new issuance and … Read More
From July 15th 2015, Circular 27/2015/TT-BTNMT on strategic environmental assessment, environmental impact assessment and environmental protection plan started to take effect. Accordingly, the Provincial People’s Committee authorized the management board of industrial zones to evaluate and approve the reports on environmental impact assessment. This authorization shall apply only to projects under the evaluation and approval … Read More
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