Number coder and bar code registering. To have number and bar codes sticked on goods for exporting or selling in supermarkets, enterprises firstly sign up to EAN Vietnam.

Sample application

Download – Application form for geographical indications

Geographical indication is information about the origin of goods, including: words, signs, symbols, images indicating: a nation, a territory, a local in which goods are made. Quality, prestige, reputation of the goods are made from geographical origin. For example “Made in Japan” (electricity),

Degree of protection for an industrial design is called “Exclusive industrial design certificate”. Exclusive industrial design certificate takes effect in 5 years from application date, and it can be extended for 2 times in a row for 5 years each time.

Industrial Design Application examination

- Formality examination

+ Application for industrial certificate will have to go through formality examation stage in order to define whether it meet the requirements to be accepted. If it does conform with all requirements,

Right to apply for industrial design protection at first belongs to author or his/her legal heirs. If an industrial design is created on the ground that the author has fulfilled his/her assignment given by an organization which he/she is a member of or supply him/her with money and means,

An industrial design is the shape of a product that is formed by lines, three-dimensional form and colors, or a combination thereof, and that is world-wide new and is used as an ornamental pattern for industrial and handicraft products

Those who have right to complain:

+ Applicant has right to complain about application rejection, protection certificate rejection

- Vietnamese organizations, individuals have the right to hand in the application by themselves. They can opt to file the application through an intermediary service of an industrial property service representing agency

- To avoid useless investment, before applying, an applicant should assess the capacity of registering that patent/utility solution and make sure that your perspective registered object are:

Right to apply for a patent/utility solution protection at first belongs to author or his/her legal heirs.

If a patent/utility solution is created in the ground that the author has fulfilled his/her assignment given by an organization

An invention (patent) is a technical solution that is distinguished by having world-wide novelty in terms of the present state of technological development, and is non-obvious, and is applicable to various social and economic fields.

Trademark registration in nations: United States of America (U.S), Laos, Cambodia, Taiwan, Thailand, Japan, Korea…

Registering trademark through Madrid Protocol is a method of international registration applied to Protocol’s members (75 nations including Vietnam). To register through this Protocol, applicant should have applied or had Trademark registration certificate in Vietnam

Trademark registration through Madrid Concord is a method of international registration applied to Madrid Concord’s members (56 nations including Vietnam). Application filing will be carried out in International Office and nations as Madrid Concord’s members will be assigned in the application.

Those who have right to complain

- Applicant has right to complain about application rejection, protection certificate rejection
- Any third party has right to complain about decision of protection certificate issuing and has to pay complaint fee