Aluminum Doors Trademarks Registration in Vietnam

Currently, with the increase in both quality and the number of businesses in Vietnam, competition between them is increasingly fierce. Since then, businesses have begun to look for ways to have a position in the current market. One of the measures is to give the company’s products an exclusive and reputable trademark. Not only reuse in market trademarks but also businesses towards trademarks that are protected by law. As a result, there is an increasing number of trademark applications for a wide range of products not only for high-value products but also for all types of products.

Therefore, businesses trading in and producing aluminum doors are now completely able to register their aluminum door products with an exclusive trademark. However, not all businesses can understand and implement all the procedures for trademark registration at a competent state agency. To save time, effort, and costs, Viet An Laws would like to provide customers with the legal service of registering trademarks for aluminum doors as well as other service products.

The following is a summary of steps for trademarks registration:

First, customers need to classify trademark registration for their service products. In a trademark registration dossier, the list of goods and services is one of the mandatory and important documents to determine the scope of trademark protection.

According to the Nice Classification, aluminum door products are under class 06.

Customers will design their trademark and sent it to Viet An Law, Viet An Law will conduct a free preliminary search. However, to have the strongest possibility to register, customers should search at the Intellectual Property office (there is a fee).

Procedures for aluminum doors trademarks registration in Vietnam include:

Step 1: Apply:

Individuals, enterprises requesting trademark registration may themselves apply to the competent state agencies or can authorize the representative of Viet An Law to submit. When applying, customers pay the registration fees and take the receipts of fee payment. These receipts will be submitted attach with the dossier.

 Attach with the trademark registration application, customers need to provide these documents:

• A list of aluminum doors intended to register;
• A trademark registration declaration;
• A power of attorney Viet An Law to submit the dossier;
• 01 trademark sample (not smaller than 3 x 3 cm, not bigger than 8 x 8 cm);
• Receipts of fee payments.

Step 2: Receive and settle the trademark registration application

         The trademark registration application shall be received by the state management agencies in charge of industrial property rights if it meets the requirements according to the provisions of Clause 1 Article 108 of the Law on Intellectual Property.

         After receiving, the competent state agencies continue to settle the application through these stages:

Stage 1: Form appraisal

         The form application will be appraised to assess the validity of the application (necessary documents, classification, stated object classification, rights to apply…) It takes about 01 – 02 months to appraise from the date of submitting.

Stage 2: Publish the application

         The application is accepted as a valid application will be published on the gazette within 02 – 03 months from the date the application is accepted.

Stage 3: Content appraisal

         The content application will be appraised. The purpose of this stage is to assess the strongest possibility to grant the protection title and assess the scope of protection. The time to appraise content is 06 months from the date of publishment. During the content appraisal, the state management agencies in charge of industrial property rights shall request the applicant to explain the content, provide information on the stated objects.

Step 3: Grant the protection title and publish 

         The trademark registration applications are not the cases that refuse to grant the protection title according to Clause 1, 2 and Point b Clause 3 Article 117 Law on Intellectual Property and the applicant pays the fee, the state management agencies in charge of industrial property rights shall grant the protection title and publish on National Register of Industrial Property.

         The time to grant the protection title is 01 – 02 months from the date paying the granting fee.

Notices: The term of trademark registration in Vietnam ( Protection) is 10 years from the submitting date and can be extended an unlimited number of times at the end of the protection term. Before the expiration of the 06-month protection period, customers must apply for the renewal and pay the renewal fee to the Intellectual Property Office if customers still want to continue using the trademark.