Areas of practice

Client: Dear representative, Our company is currently considering to form a resident Limited Company (not off-shore) in Vietnam. Our main business activity can be described as FMGC import and distribution. The proposed ownership is 100% foreign. Would you please be so kind to share with us the procedures and costs for setting up...

Renewal and recordal of change of address of trademark in Vietnam

Question: Our company would like to apply for 3 trade mark applications in Laos, Cambodia, Thailand and Singapore using Vietnam as the office of origin. In this regard, appreciate if you can let us know on urgent basis by end of today the following information: your fees to file...

Question: What do I need to carefully considered intellectual property protection?

SBLAW would like to give you the details of trademark registration in Vietnam as follows: Conducting trademark search (not required): Before filing application for trademark registration, in order to assure that your trademark is not identical or confusingly similar to the protected trademark in Vietnam, you should conduct a search for...

Q: We would like to get a quotation from your firm, for the filing of a trademark. Kindly advice the estimated cost for our preliminary consideration. A: Thank you very much for your email regarding the subject matter. As one of the leading Vietnamese law firms, we are capable of...

Currently, the Ministry of Science and Technology, in cooperation with the VCCI, is collecting opinions on the new draft decree, in which Article 1 amend a number of provisions of Decree 99/2013/ND-CP on sanctions for administrative violations in Industrial property (“Draft”). The Draft aims to remove obstacles in the application of the law...

The fee for filling a patent application in Vietnam. In order to file a patent application in Vietnam, the applicant has to pay the following [...]

SBLAW would like to advise client about the Patent registration proceeding in Vietnam  as below: 1. Procedure a. Protection criteria: A patent shall be eligible for protection in the form of the grant of a Patent for Invention/Utility Solution when it satisfies the following conditions:   Being novel Being of an inventive step Being susceptible of industrial application Patent for invention P P P Patent for utility solution P P   b. Validity of Patent for Patent/Utility Solution: Patent for Invention shall have...

Question: We are manufacturers of pharmaceutical formulations. We intend to register the brand names in Vietnam. Please advise process and formalities. Answer: Regarding your enquiries concerning the subject matter, we would like to advise you procedure and our fee schedule in relation to trademark registration in Vietnam as follows: FEE SCHEDULE 1.1      Trademark information -       Trademark: (Please specify) -       Class:...