Intellectual Property

At ANT Lawyers, our Intellectual Property practice help clients to protect, and profit from their intellectual assets in Vietnam.

ANT Lawyers is supported by a team of consultants with qualification and skills handling IP filing advice and IP dispute matters.

To learn more about our IP services, please read more on trademark, industrial design, and invention and utility solution services.

Please contact us for inquiries through email ant@antlawyers.vn or call our partners directly at + 84 912 817 823.

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Invention and utility solution

Under Intellectual Property Law of Vietnam, invention is a technical solution which must be of worldwide novelty, involves inventive steps and is applicable in various social and economic fields.

• Advise legal matters and the patent-ability of inventions and utility solutions in Vietnam and in abroad;

• Conduct patent searches and provide information on invention or utility solution, advice measures to protect patent or utility solution in Vietnam and abroad;

• Complete the applications (including translating, writing patent description, preparing illustrative drawings of patent) and file to register invention license or utility solution;

• Enforce the invention or utility solution rights, including investigation, supervision, negotiation, mediation, lawsuit initiation to handle infringement in Vietnam and oversea.

• Advise matters related to maintenance, payment of maintenance fee; recording of all changes of patent application/registrations;

• Draft, evaluate, register usage or ownership transfer of contracts on invention or utility solution;

The subject of invention and utility solution may be a device, process, substance, microorganisms, cell culture, and use thereof in accordance with a new function. Subject shall not be protected as inventions include: plant or animal varieties; method for prevention, diagnosis or treatment of diseases in human being, animals or plants; topographical design of integrated circuits; computer programs.

ANT Lawyers provides clients invention and utility solution services as following:

For advice and specific details in each case, please contact us directly at ant@antlawyers.vn or call +84 912 817 823

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New law that impact Work permit in Vietnam for foreigners

DATEOctober 7, 2013

POSTED BYANT Lawyers

Vietnam has recently issued a new law that put a stricter control on foreigners working in Vietnam.  With the changes being implemented from early November of 2013, the process to apply for work permit in Vietnam will take longer and would cost extra fees.  The work permit for foreigners in Vietnam will now require the approval from head of People’s Committee and that once it is issued, it will only be good for two years as max in compared with three years as regulated earlier.  ANT Lawyers’ employment and labour lawyers in Vietnam keep track of the changes in the employment and labour law in Vietnam and assist our client to cope with changes.   The Government has issued Decree 102/2013/ND-CP elaborating some articles of the new Vienam Labour Code 2012 on foreign workers in Vietnam. Accordingly, the employer applying for work permits of foreign employees must comply with the following procedure: step 1) make a report stating clearly the demand of employee in their companies, then send to the President of People’s Committee in order to apply for the permission of foreign worker employment; step 2) prepare documents and submit for work permits at Department of Labor and Social Welfare before 15 days at least of the date employees start work. The work permits shall be valid with maximum term of 2 years.

The new Decree also allows four group of others to work in Vietnam, including: i) Volunteers who work voluntarily without salary or wage; ii) The persons who are responsible to establish the commerce presences in Vietnam; iii) Managers, CEOs, specialists, technical workers who are trained in technology major at least 1 year and used to work at least 3 years in trained major; iv) The persons who are engaging in bidding projects and other projects in Vietnam.

Decree 102/20113/ND-CP takes effect on November 1^st 2013 and replaces Decree 34/2008/ND-CP. If you need to apply for the work permits or relevant issues, we could assist.  ANT Lawyers, your lawyers in Vietnam

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