Freedom to Operate (FTO) search is an essential step for businesses intending to commercialize a product or process to avoid infringemnt. Vietnam patent ...

The Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) program is a bilateral initiative that allows patent applicants to expedite the examination process of their patent applications. This guide focuses on how to leverage the ...

Filing for a patent is a critical step in safeguarding your invention’s intellectual property rights. In Vietnam, this process is regulated by the Intellectual Property Office ...

As Vietnam patent search database is recorded in local language only (Vietnamese) and there is no tool, such as machine translation, to translate the search ...

An application must specify whether the object to be protected is a product or process as stipulated in article 4.12 of the Law on Intellectual Property. 

An application for registration of an invention shall be announced in the nineteenth month from the priority date or from the date of filing of the application (if there is no priority date) or within two months from the date on which the application is approved as proper, ...