PATENT & UTILITY MODEL

Please contact us: • A DONG IP – TRANSLATION – CONSULTANCY COMPANY • Room F2&F3, No. 2 Phung Khac Khoan Street, Da Kao Ward, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam • Tel: 84-28 3926 0120 – 39260125 • Email: consultant@a-dong.com.vn; info@a-dong.com.vn • Website: adong-ip.com

At Adong, we believe our job does not end with the successful registration of the clients’ patents. We offer a full range of competitively priced renewal and maintenance services. The Validity of invention patent is 20 years, while utility patent is 10 years. The said patents should be maintained annually.

Please contact us: A DONG IP – TRANSLATION – CONSULTANCY COMPANY Room F2&F3, No. 2 Phung Khac Khoan Street, Da Kao Ward, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam Tel: 84-28 3926 0120 – 39260125 Email: consultant@a-dong.com.vn; info@a-dong.com.vn Website: adong-ip.com

According to the IP Law VietNam the term of validity for a patent is as follows: The patent for invention is 20 years counted from the filing date. The patent for utility solution is 10 years counted from the filing date.

According to the IP Law 2005, amended 2019, the following subject matters shall not be protected as inventions: Discoveries, scientific theories; mathematical methods;...Schemes, plans, rules or methods for performing mental acts, training domestic animals, playing games, doing business; computer programs, ...

Before the IPVN issues decisions on rejection of an application, decisions on refusal to grant a protection title or decisions on the grant of a protection title, an applicant may request the IPVN to record the transfer of his/her application to another person.

Before the IPVN issues decisions on rejection of an application, decisions on refusal to grant a protection title or decisions on the grant of a protection title, the applicant may amend of the application on his/her own initiative or upon the request of the IPVN

Invention means a technical solution in the form of a product or a process which is intended to solve a problem by application of laws of nature. An invention shall be protected by mode of grant of invention patent or utility solution patent.

Products in the form of objects, for example, tools, machines, equipment, components, circuits..., expressed in set of information that identifies an artificial product characterized by technical signs (characteristics) of structure, that product functions (utilizing) as a means to meet certain needs of human

Products in the form of substances (includings imple substances, compounds and mixtures), for example materials, food, pharmaceuticals ...

Process or method (production process; diagnostic, predictive, test, process, etc.) is represented by a set of information that determines how to conduct a process, a specific job is characterized by signs (characteristics) of the sequence, participants, measures and means of performing operations to achieve a certain purpose.