Following on from our previous article on Annual Report of the Intellectual Property Office of Vietnam (IP VIETNAM) with respect to Intellectual Property Legislation and Policies (http://iphouse.vn/2020-annual-report-of-ip-vietnam-part-i-intellectual-property-legislation-and-policies/), this piece serves to provide details on number of intellectual property applications filed with IP VIETNAM by category and highlight performance of the Office.
In 2020, based upon the data released by IP VIETNAM, the number of intellectual property applications filed with the Office was 125,689 (rose by 4.1% in comparison with the year of 2019).
1. The number of intellectual property applications filed with IP VIETNAM by category
In the year of 2020, IP VIETNAM received 76,720 applications for registration of industrial property rights (increased by 1.3% compared to 2019), including:
- 8,368 applications for inventions/utility models:
- 3,213 applications for industrial designs;
- 55,579 applications for national trademarks;
- 9,251 applications for international trademark applications via the Madrid System;
- 22 for geographical indications;
- 287 for Vietnam originated international applications;
2. The number of other requests
IP VIETNAM also received 48,969, including:
- 3,702 requests for application amendments;
- 1,317 requests for application transfers;
- 1,989 requests for regrants/duplicates of protection titles;
- 10,962 requests for renewals of protection titles;
- 4,196 requests for renewals of Viet Nam originated international protection titles;
- 7,617 requests for amendments of protection titles;
- 11,000 requests for maintenance of protection titles’ validity;
- 2,494 requests for assignment of protection titles;
- 439 requests for license of IP rights;
- 441 requests for termination/ cancellation of protection titles;
- 1344 requests for appeals;
- 2 requests for searches;
- 2,099 requests for opposition of granting protection titles and
- 1,367 other requests.
3. The performance of IP VIETNAM
In the year of 2020, IP Viet Nam has processed 71,829 industrial property applications (increased by 10.5% compared to 2019), including:
- 7,155 applications for invention/utility solutions;
- 2,869 residential registration applications;
- 51,311 national trademark applications and 10,191 international trademark applications via the Madrid System;
- 22 geographical indication applications;
- 281 Vietnam originated international applications.
Further more, 41,647 other applications/requests has also been processed, including:
- amendment, assignment or objection to the grant of an application: 6,817;
- re-issue of protection titles: 1,572;
- extension of protection titles: 9,553;
- modification of protection titles: 5,815;
- maintain the effectiveness of protection titles: 11,866;
- transfer of protection titles: 2,933;
- licensing: 563;
- termination/invalidation of protection titles: 106;
- complaints: 926;
- other forms of application: 1,496.
4. The number of Title of Protection
In the year of 2020, IP Viet Nam has granted 48,072 IP protections (increased by 18.1% compared to 2019), including:
- 4,597 invention patents/utility solution patents;
- 2,066 industrial designs patents;
- 33,700 national trademark registrations;
- 7,688 international trademark registrations;
- 21 geographical indication registrations.
Should clients need any further information in this regard, please contact us at:
Dao Danh Phuoc (Mr.)
Head of Patent and Design Department – IPHOUSE & ASSOCIATES
Phone: (+84)967742458 (direct)
Email: daodanhphuoc@iphouse.vn