Effective from 1 June 2019, applicants can request accelerated
examination at the Intellectual Property Office of Vietnam (IP
Vietnam) based on a favourable work product established by the
Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) for the corresponding
Korean national application (and vice versa). This PPH Pilot
Program between IP Vietnam and KIPO will run for an initial period
of 2 years and is limited to 100 requests from each office per
year.
The corresponding application can be the KIPO application which
forms the basis of the priority claim, an application which is
derived from the KIPO application which forms the basis of the
priority claim (e.g. a divisional application of the KIPO
application or an application which claims domestic priority to the
KIPO application), or a KIPO national phase application of a PCT
application. In other words, this PPH Pilot Program does not cover
PCT work products established by KIPO as ISA/IPEA. Further, a KIPO
utility model
