- Email: rubby@ipcells.com
RUBBY NGUYEN
Rubby is Partner, qualified Patent, Design and Trademark Attorney and Managing Partner of Ipcells & Associates. She has more 11 years of intensive experience in advising and representing regional and international industrial and commercial groups on the spectrum range of Intellectual Property Rights related issues, especially Patent, Industrial Design, Trademark, Copyright and Trade Secret.
Before becoming Managing Partner of Ipcells & Associates, Rubby had worked for some prestigious local law firms in Vietnam, where she earned valuable knowledge and experience in Intellectual Property, IP Enforcement, Technology Transfer, Dispute Resolution and Litigation.
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ANDREW NGUYEN
Andrew is head of Patent Deparment of Ipcells & Associates. Andrew holds an honors Bachelor of Applied Science degree from University of Sciences, Vietnam. He has been conferred as a qualified Patent Lawyer by the National Office of Intellectual Property (NOIP).
His legal practice involves patent preparation and prosecution which include advising client an invention patentability accroding to national Law, drafting patent specification, filing domestic and international application, as well as post-grant proceedings.
CELLIA PHAM
Cellia is head of Trademark Deparment of Ipcells & Associates. She has near 08 years of intensive experience in advising and representing regional and International Industrial on the range of Trademark.
Cellia is a Trademark Attorney in Vietnam. She is specialized in all aspects of Trademark protection, including Vietnamese and Internatioan prosecution, clearances, oppositions, disputes, assignments. stragegies and Trademark portfolio management. Cellia drafts and negotiates intellectual property agreements and handles legal matter relating to company names, domain names, markting law and copyright law as well as design prosecution.
Paul Kallmes
IP Strategist
Paul Kallmes is an internationally renowned intellectual property strategist and practitioner. He has extensive experience in the development and deployment of intangible assets of all forms and in many different industries. His expertise in portfolio development, licensing, competitive intelligence, valuation and transactions provides substantial competitive advantage to companies at all stages of growth and expansion. In partnership with Ipcells & Associates, he and his networks of IP professionals bring exceptional capability to client companies' ambitions. Whether contemplating new market entry, acquisition of complementary IP, positioning for funding or M&A, IP securitization or valuation, Ipcells and partners can deliver the right results.
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.
