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Through Investment & Business Consulting Practice, Ipcells & Associates help clients to capture investment and business opportunities that exist in today’s rapidly increasing business climate in Vietnam. To increase the chance of success for clients, we offer unique, complex, innovative and cost-effective consulting solutions to clients, by bringing them better understanding of investment and business opportunities and risks, linking commercial issues to their business objective and assisting them in carrying out their business strategies.
Acknowledging the need for long-term and sustainable development of the local business community, Ipcells & Associates offer clients a broad range of services covering all business aspects commencing from their initial start-up, whereby they can maximize the efficiency of business performance, the capability of competition and the chance of success.
Since Vietnam continues to develop as further economic reforms take place, businesses will have more opportunities and vehicles for carrying out investment. Anticipating this trend, Ipcells & Associates do and will provide clients with more complex services dealing directly with corporate governance and restructure including but not limited to privatization, merger & acquisition, sales & disposal, cross shareholding, with valuable insights into how clients can sustainably grow and best enhance their value.
In case you require more information or require advice on Foreign Investment as well as other IP matters in Vietnam, please do not hesitate to contact us via Mail: rubby@ipcells.com
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.
When substantive examination of the application is requested, the Vietnamese translations of
annexes to the international preliminary examination report (Form PCT/ISA/237 or
PCT/IPEA/409) must be submitted.
