What Are Condition, Procedures and Period of Vietnam Patent Registration?

What are criteria a patent needs to be protected?

According to Law on Intellectual Property in Vietnam, a patent needs to satisfy 03 following criteria to be protected:

-An invention shall be deemed novel if it has not yet been publicly disclosed by use or by means of a written description or any other form either inside or outside Vietnam before the filing date or the priority date, as applicable, of the invention registration application.

-An invention shall be deemed not yet publicly disclosed if it is known to only a limited number of persons who are obliged to keep it secret.

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