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IPCELLS & ASSOCIATES is a Leading National Intellectual Property located at Hanoi city in Vietnam. The IPCELLS & ASSOCIATES is specialized and dedicated to protecting the ideas and innovations that drive businesses around the worldwide. IPCELLS & ASSOCIATES provides their professional services to private and public businesses for their Intellectual Property and Foreign Investment Matter in Vietnam and Indochina Countries.
Our practice includes all aspects of patent, trademark, copyright; design, including counseling, prosecution, licensing, and litigation. We also represent clients on IP issues related to international trade, portfolio management, e-commerce and domain name and corporate and commercial matters.
The firm's clients do business in a variety of domestic and international markets and they operate in major industry sectors, including Pharmaceuticals, Bio-Technology, Life Sciences, healthcare, software, hardware, telecommunications, manufacturing, retail, media and e-commerce, semiconductor and nanotechnology.
Our patent attorneys & lawyers have advanced degrees in cutting-edge scientific disciplines. Through this powerful combination of legal and technical knowledge and strengths, we have become the largest and one of the most successful IP law firm in Vietnam.
IPCELLS & ASSOCIATES philosophy of a client-firm alliance is built on the firm's commitment to clear and continuous communication. IPCELLS & ASSOCIATES is committed to understanding technology as it relates to each client's business and industry, as well as utilizing technology to successfully represent each client. IPCELLS & ASSOCIATES 's robust knowledge management system is utilized to economically and efficiently benefit the firm's clients.
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.
