Dragon Law Firm

Dragon Law provides the best intellectual property (IP) consultation service, including: patent, industrial design, trade marks, copyrights and other intellectual properties that the law of Vietnam protects; license, patent assignment, technological assignment, consultation for determining the value of brand name, making the procedure to establish the rights and settle disputes relating to the violation of intellectual property objects.

1 - Invention, Industrial Design:

The lawyer of Dragon Law shall consult for clients about all issues relating to establish, maintain and protect the patent property, industrial design property in Vietnam and outside Vietnam, including:

- Draft documents, prepare a dossier, apply and pursuit: invention application, utility solution, industrial design;

- Perform to research legal documents, evaluate the ability of protection relating to invention, utility solution, industrial design;

- Consult about the ability of protection, validity of patent and the ability of patent, utility solution, industrial design violation;

- Consult about the procedure to maintain the validity of patents: Invention, utility solution, industrial design;

- Consult about the procedure of license assignment and any changes relating to invention, utility solution, industrial design.

2 - Trade mark:

Dragon Law Firm is always willing to consult clients about the law of all issues relating to the establishment, maintenance and IP protection to brands in Vietnam and outside Vietnam, including:

- Look up legal documents, evaluate the ability of trademark, collective mark, certification mark, geographical indication;

- Consult how to choose and use the trademark, collective mark, certification mark, geographical indication.

- Prepare dossier, apply and pursuit the application until having the conclusion of patent grant;

- Consult on legal procedure amended relating to protection registration application;

- Consult on the maintenance and renewal procedure;

- Consult about the legal procedures which acknowledge the amendment relating to patent, including: the owner’s of address and name amendment;

- Consult about the legal procedure which acknowledges the assignment, licence, patent;

- Consult and perform steps to build and develop brands after registration;

3 - Copyright and related rights:

We provide lawful consultations for clients in Vietnam and outside Vietnam about issues relating to copyright protection and related rights, including:

- Search information relating to copyright registration;

- Consult clients about filing procedure relating to filing copyright registration and related rights in Vietnam and outside Vietnam.

- Consult clients about participating negotiation and draff contract about using composition, composition assignment contract and other contracts relating to copyright and related rights.

4 - Complaint and litigation:

Performing solutions to taking acts against intellectual property violation to protect the legitimate rights and interest of the owner:

a. Consult clients in dispute and complaint relating to the intellectual property establishment, including:

- Complaint decisions about refusing the grant of a protection title for intellectual property objects;

- Object the settling application about the grant of patent title relating to the client’s rights.

- Complaint about the suspension, the cancellation of the effective date of patent, copyright (illegal grant or not use in the time limit according to the law provisions);

b. Consult client in enforcement of intellectual property, including:

- Request competent agency to examine and conclude on the violations relating to intellectual property entities.

- Request the violated person to stop violation acts;

- Request the competent agency to dispose the violation;

c. Participating the proceedings/ litigation as an authorized representative to protect the legitimate rights and interests of the client relating to IP in Court and competent agency;

5 - Consultation of investment and technology transfer:

Consult client all issues relating to investment, technology asignments in Vietnam and outside Vietnam.

- Market research, evaluate and determine the goal to invest, support to choose invest partners, commercial partners;

- Negotiate and support to negotiate, draff technology assignment contract, joint -venture contract, commercial and civil contract;

- Build the research of pre-feasibility and feasibility report, evaluate the effect to the environment, ecological environment;

- Consult and support client on issues relating to business regulated in Law on Intellectual Property, Law on Science and technology, Law on Investment, Law on Enterprise, Law on Customs; Tax and finance...

- Consult and support client on issues relating to business administration: Establishment, separation, merger, change in business registration, apply for business code, product code, product quality publication...

- Consult and support businesses on strategic administration and built the trademark before and after protection registration.

6 - Consult on trademark valuation:

Trademark is the best valuable intangible asset in each enterprise. Enterprises shall invest so much on marketing, building business culture to promote and market trademark. The trademark valuation is to help businesses define the value of trademark in market to serve other acts of business. So how to valuate business’s trademark? Dragon Law firm can help business to carry out it.

Services of trademark valuation that Dragon Law firm provides, includes:

- Consult on defining the trademark valuation in the process of equitization;

- Consult on defining the trademark valuation in the process of business merger;

- Consult on defining the intellectual property valuation when capital contribution by trademark asset;

- Consult on defining the valuation on property right or the using trademark right assignment;

- Define the trademark valuation in trademark dispute;

- Support business in defining trademark valuation in stock market;

- Build the strategy to develop and administrative trademark;

- Consult client participating trademark reward;

7 - Competent agency on intellectual property registration:

Department of Intellectual Property.

In specific legal matters will be applied with detail action plan. For more information, please contact to Dragon Law as below to be supported.