Register a trademark in Vietnam for salt products

Salt is an essential mineral that not only helps preserve food and make food more delicious but also plays an important role in many biochemical processes of the human body. Nowadays, many processed spice products replace refined salt such as seasoning powder and soup powder, but in most family kitchens and restaurants, refined salt products still cannot be substituted in some stages. In this article, Viet An Law will present the process to register a trademark in Vietnam for salt products.

Classifying of trademark registration for salt products in Vietnam

Class 30

Cooking salt; salt used to preserve food; iodized salt; shrimp salt; Shrimp salt has MSG; Shrimp salt without MSG.

Class 35

Buying, selling, importing, and exporting salt products: Cooking salt; salt used to preserve food; iodized salt; shrimp salt; Shrimp salt has MSG; Shrimp salt without MSG.

Some trademarks related to salt products in Vietnam

Visalco clean salt trademark

Visalco clean table salt is produced using clean technology: reverse flow water – completely filtering out organic impurities, mud, soil, and sand that exist in seawater to produce pure seawater. Transparent sea water is crystallized under the sun in a clean environment to form salt, then combined with PHABA technology – grinding salt in a concentrated sea mineral system solution, creating the best quality product provided to consumers.

Clean salt trademark VinaFood1

VinaFood1 salt is produced on a modern production line, ensuring quality. Salt has high whiteness, no impurities, and has been processed to ensure purity. The product contains trace minerals potassium, calcium, iodine… that help metabolize sugar, protein, and fat, ensuring healthy development of the body and preventing endocrine and metabolic disorders.

Thanh Phat Salt trademark

Thanh Phat Salt Company is one of the leading salt suppliers in the Southern region. Thanh Phat Salt was established in 1976 by Salt Cooperative and Thanh Phat facility. The enterprise specializes in producing all types of salt, from crystallized sea salt grains and diverse processing to many types of salt to meet the needs of all clients from food and cosmetic manufacturing companies. products, especially supplying water treatment industries, leather tanning, and iodized salt to the community.

Visalco Thanh Hoa sea salt trademark

In recent years, in addition to the difficulties of the domestic and foreign macroeconomy, the Thanh Hoa Salt and Trade Association has gathered a team of young engineers and the company to successfully research and apply coalescing technology. salt crystallization on a canvas substrate instead of the traditional method of crystallization on a sand substrate. The backflow of seawater completely filters out organic impurities, mud, and clay in seawater. Transparent sea water is naturally crystallized under sunlight in a clean environment, combined with PHABA technology, grinding salt in a concentrated sea mineral system solution. Visalco clean sea salt has a mild, sweet, and salty taste, is completely clean and natural, and is considered by the Japanese to be the best salt in the world.

Himalayan salt trademark

Himalayan pink salt is pink salt extracted from the Khewra salt mine, located near the Himalayas in Pakistan. Khewra Salt Mine is one of the oldest and largest salt mines in the world. The Himalayan pink salt harvested from this mine is believed to have been formed millions of years ago from the evaporation of ancient water sources. The salt is hand-mined and minimally processed to create an unrefined product that is free of additives and said to be much more natural than regular table salt.

VISAchef iodized salt trademark

VISAchef iodized salt uses high quality refined salt and is produced on modern equipment to ensure food safety and hygiene. To ensure the health of users and prevent goiter or intellectual disability, in addition to refined salt, a certain amount of iodine is also added to the product, 40 PPm/10 grams.

Register a trademark in Vietnam for salt products

Step 1: Choose a trademark and classification of the trademark

• Trademark selection: Choose a trademark model that meets protection standards. The selected trademark is not similar to other registered trademarks or famous trademarks.
• Select a class of goods and services to register: You need to select a class of goods and services bearing the trademark according to the instructions above. Classification of goods and services should be done according to the Nice Classification trademarks with the latest updated versions.

Step 2: Research the trademark

To perform a trademark search, clients only need to provide Viet An Law:

• Trademark sample;
• List of goods and services that need to be searched and registered.

Step 3: Submit the registration application

• After a profound search and the trademark is assessed as capable of registration, the applicant proceeds to submit the registration application.
• Agency receiving and processing documents and collecting registration fees in Vietnam: National Office of Intellectual Property.

Step 4: Formality examination of the registration application

• The time limit for the formality examination of a trademark application is 01 month from the date of application submission.
• The National Office of Intellectual Property will consider whether the application meets the requirements in terms of form, label sample, application owner, filing rights, grouping, etc.
• If the business’s registration application meets the conditions. The National Office of Intellectual Property will issue a Notice of acceptance of the valid application and publish the application.
• If the business’s registration application does not meet the conditions. The National Office of Intellectual Property will issue a Notice of non-acceptance of the application and request the enterprise to make amendments. The application owner and representative of the application owner shall make amendments as requested. After that, submit the documents requested amendment to the National Office of Intellectual Property and pay additional fees if the group is classified incorrectly.

Step 5: Publication of the trademark registration application

• The time limit for publication of the trademark application is 02 months from the date of notification of acceptance of the valid application.
• The application publication content includes information about the valid application recorded in the notice of acceptance of the valid application, trademark sample, and list of goods and services.

Step 6: Substantial examination of the application

The time limit for substantial examination is 09 months from the date of publication of the application.

Step 7: Granting trademark protection certificate

After receiving notice of intention to grant a protection title, the applicant shall proceed to pay the granting fee.

Clients who need to register a trademark in Vietnam and abroad, please contact Viet An Law Firm for the fastest, most professional support at the most reasonable cost!