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IPCELLS & ASSOCIATES operates under the law of Vietnam, registered at the National Office of Intellectual Property of Vietnam (IP Vietnam) for representative Industrial Property and Copyright. We constantly place great importance on human resources development considering that our people are the key to our long term success. We are continually improving the depth and the breadth of our legal services that we provide through intensive and extensive training and development of our professional staff.
IPCELLS & ASSOCIATES has extensive experience in representing Viet Nam and international customers for establishing and protecting intellectual property rights, resolving disputes and violations in the field of intellectual property.
With professional staff and collaborators, we offers a full range of IP services including searching, filing, prosecution and enforcement intellectual property rights including patents, industrial designs, trademarks, copyrights, domain names, geographical indications, plant varieties, provision of expert opinions, dispute resolution, opposition and appeals, due diligence analyses, preparation of licensing agreements and other matters related to IP to help domestic and foreign clients obtain the greatest advantages in prosecution and enforcement of their IP rights not only in Vietnam but also in other countries in the world.
In addition to IP services, IPCELLS & ASSOCIATES has also been advising on business law in Vietnam. Within all aspects of business laws in Vietnam, we assist the clients from multinational corporations to small & medium sized companies and individuals in establishing their business presence in Vietnam and help them during their operations.
Philosophy
IPCELLS & ASSOCIATES’s philosophy has always been to provide our clients with reasonably priced legal services as expediently as possible. We also believe that each of our attorneys should be experienced in intellectual property prosecution and litigation to provide our clients with the most in-depth representation possible.
Our goal is to deliver the highest quality intellectual property legal services, and we pride ourselves in maintaining good communication with our clients through a high level of responsiveness as well as genuinely having the clients’ best interests at heart and in mind. We commit ourselves to provide the best services to our clients regardless they are a small company or a big international corporation.
We consider all aspects of the protection sought, including the entire life cycle of the intellectual property – i.e. maintenance, licensing, and subsequent enforcement.
Our vision
Our vision is to lead change in Intellectual Property services and provide our clients with skilled legal advice in a timely and efficient manner. We strive to handle each matter with accountability and responsiveness, as if we were representing ourselves. We focus our attention on the legal aspects of our client’s business so that our clients can focus their attention on the success of their business.
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.
