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IPCELLS & ASSOCIATES is an intellectual property law firm based in Hanoi, supported by a team of highly qualified legal and technical experts as well as competent staff.
We offer a wide range of industrial property services, ranging from simple registrations to assistance with sophisticated cases. Our services include:
· Search conducting, filing and prosecuting applications for Industrial Property subjects as Trademark, Patent, Industrial Design, Copyright.
· Maintenance and annuity payment of patents, opposition and appeal against the official decision, and presenting in infringement cases.
· Providing intellectual property services in Vietnam, the firm also assists the clients in protecting their Trademarks in Laos and Cambodia.
The firm is a member of the International Trademark Association (INTA), Asian Patent Attorneys Association (APAA), Asian Intellectual Property Association (ASEAN IPA), Vietnam Intellectual Property Association (VIPA).
Patent protection has a significant importance to nation, enterprises and inventors.
Trademark is one of the intangible properties but may bring a grand tangible value to enterprise’s business practices. According to the law, trademark is any sign used to distinguish goods or services of different organizations or individuals.
An industrial design means a specific appearance of a product embodied by three-dimensional configurations,lines,colors,or a combination of these elements.
Ipcells & Associates is capable to help clients in protecting their copyrights through registration of their works with Copyright Office of Vietnam and offer practical advice to clients on the strength and extent of copyright protection
Plant variety is protected in Vietnam if Organizations and individuals whose rights to plant varieties are eligible for protection means those who select and breed or discover and develop plant varieties or who invest in the selection and breeding or the discovery and development of plant varieties
Ipcells & Associates has been actively and intensively involved in a wide variety of licensing and transactional matters relating to all types of intellectual property. Our attorneys have licensing experience from a variety of legal, business and technical backgrounds
Ipcells & Associates International has strong and intensive experiences in representing clients before State competent authorities in litigation and enforcement actions in connection with IP subject matters
The validity of a patent may be suspended if the patentee declares in writing abandonment of the design patent or fails to pay the prescribed renewal fee within the time limits as regulated.
When the design patent validity is suspended, the patent rights will be terminated from suspension of the design patent.
5 years from the validity date of design patents. In case the rights to the design patents have been established in bad faith, the time limit is the whole duration of dseign patent protection.
The following acts, committed without the consent from a patent holder, shall constitute a patent infringement:
(i) manufacturing products using a patented design;
(ii) using, importing, advertising or circulating products that have been manufactured using a patented design.
Yes. If independent usage of an industrial design identical with a design under a published industrial design application is taken place prior to the filing date by any person or legal entity (prior user), after the registration of this industrial design, the prior user is entitled to continue using the industrial design without extension and transferring the right to use to others
The scope of design protection includes any design having a set of main features that is identical to or is not substantially different from the same of the protected design.
An invention is a technical solution that is distinguished by having worldwide novelty in terms of the present state of technological development and, involves inventive step and is applicable to various social and economic fields.
A utility solution
The subject matters of inventions or utility solutions may be:
a) a device
b) a process
According to Article 4.16 of the IP Law of Vietnam, a “mark” means any sign used to distinguish goods or services of different organizations or individuals. Such signs must be visible and may include letters, words, drawings or images including holograms, or a combination thereof, represented in one or more colours.
A well-known trademark, as defined by Article 4.20 of the IP Law of Vietnam, means a mark widely known by consumers throughout the territory of Vietnam.
All trademarks should be applied for and registered with the National Office of Intellectual Propery of Vietnam.
06/12/2023
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