What is the effect of an international patent application?

What is the effect of an international patent application?    PCT National Phase Entry in Vietnam In general terms, your international patent application, provided that it complies with the minimum requirements for obtaining an international filing date, has the effect of a national patent application (and certain regional patent applications) in or for all PCT Contracting States. Moreover, if you comply with certain formal requirements...

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Opposition of Trademark Applications for Registration in Vietnam

Opposition of Applications for Registration of the Mark Protection in Vietnam Law on Intellectual Property allows any third party to have right to denounces the opposition of trademark applications for registration which have identical or confusingly similar signs. As from the date an application for registration of mark is published in the Official Gazette of Industrial Property up until prior to the date of issuance of a decision on...

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How Licensing of Trademark in Vietnam Works?

Licensing of industrial property subject in general or of trademark in specific is regulated in Intellectual Property law. Accordingly, in trademark licensing, the owner (licensor) grants permission to another (licensee) to use that trademark on mutually agreed terms and conditions. The must be established in written form to avoid dispute in trademark licensing in Vietnam.   Trademark licensing in Vietnam Accordingly, licensing of trademark includes...

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