Patent Filing Procedure: Vietnam

Step 1: Filing:

• Who may apply: Article 86 and 89:
• Authors who have created inventions with their own efforts and expenses
• Organizations or individuals who have supplied funs and material facilities to authors in the form of job assignment or hiring unless otherwise agreed by the involved parties.
• Foreign nationals residing permanently
• Foreign organizations having a production or trading establishment
• Non-resident foreign nationals or organizations not having a production or trading establishment shall apply through a lawful representative.
• Documents required: Section 100
• Declaration for registration in the prescribed form
• Documents, samples and information identifying the invention