Intellectual Property

Patent

LegalLink provides practical, innovative and market-oriented consultation to support client to have a strategic protection and management of client’s patent system.

Our services including:

Register patents (draft, translate and submit application to register patents in the meantime, consult client on the possibility of register and protect patents);
Develop protection strategies (consult and support the establishment of programs/strategies to protect patents);
Patent licence (issue patent licence and cross-licensing work);
Enforce rights and settle disputes related to patents (violation on patents, objection to the grant of patent, initiate litigation relating to patent dispute and other solutions for patent disputes).

Register patents

Register patents (draft, translate and submit application to register patents in the meantime, consult client on the possibility of register and protect patents);

Develop protection strategies

Develop protection strategies (consult and support the establishment of programs/strategies to protect patents);

Patent licence

Patent licence (issue patent licence and cross-licensing work);

Enforce rights and settle disputes related to patents

Enforce rights and settle disputes related to patents (violation on patents, objection to the grant of patent, initiate litigation relating to patent dispute and other solutions for patent disputes).

Trademark

LegalLink’s services are not just bound to consultation on domestic trademark registration but also trademark registration in other countries in the world and trademark registration of foreign organizations, individuals in Vietnam.

Consult on the establishment of intellectual property rights, trademark;
Consult on logo design, trade name, name/brand for goods;
Research and provide information on registration of intellectual property rights in Vietnam;
Check on the feasibility of the intellectual property rights which are tentative for registration; consult on the registration to protect trademark;
Represent client to submit application to protect intellectual property rights, including amendment and renewal of protection title;
Consult on contracts, draft contracts, appraise and register licence contracts, technology transfer contracts;
Consult on settlement disputes related to contracts, negotiate and represent clients to settle disputes in the area of intellectual property;
Enforce intellectual property rights protected: investigate, supervise, negotiate, mediate and initiate litigation or require competent authorities to handle violations.

Industrial Design

In recent years, intellectual property violation on industrial design is increasing dramatically. Therefore, besides providing consultation services to register of intellectual property of industrial design, LegalLink also provides consultation services in the handling of industrial design violated goods.

Specifically, our services include:

Consult on legal documents related to registration and protection of industrial design;
Evaluate the possibility of registration and use of industrial design;
Check information on registration and use of industrial design;
Finalize documents, represent clients to submit and process legal procedures to register industrial design;
Consult and process legal procedures to recognize the transfer of industrial design registration application;
Consult and process legal procedures to recognize amendment of industrial design registration application;
Consult and process legal procedures to recognize amendment of industrial design protection title on the grounds of transfer of ownership, merger of company; to recognize the change of name, address of owner of protection title;
Consult and represent clients to perform procedures relating to transfer and receipt of industrial design;
Consult on contents related to Technology transfer contract relating to transfer of industrial design;
Represent and consult clients on maintenance of validity of exclusive industrial design protection title;
Consult on claim, settlement of disputes and litigation on intellectual property law relating to industrial design.

LegalLink provides and supports clients in identifying possibility for protection, consultation on the registration and other procedures in order to maximize opportunities in obtaining licence and protect copyright.

Our services in this area include:

Consult on possibility of copyright protection;
Research on ownership and possibility of copyright;
Consult on registration, use and protection of copyrighted work;
Negotiate and draft contracts relating to creativity, ownership, licence, transfer and collection of royalty (in accordance with licence contract for subjects under the scope of protection of copyright);
Consult on violation and against violation on copyright (including litigation process against violating party);
Settle disputes relating to copyright.

Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights

LegalLink is one of pioneer enterprises in the strategic and effective use of enforcement methods in order to: suspend the production of counterfeits and copyright infringed goods and other variation of these kinds of violation. LegalLink handles cases by both conventional and unconventional methods, depending on specific case. We apply a range of different methods from civil, criminal to administrative methods especially close cooperation with competent authorities against infringed parties.

Our services include:

Identify, investigate and survey on the intellectual property rights;
Initiate preventative and anti- counterfeit programs, copyright infringed goods (including Public relations);
Warn, negotiate, settle disputes and arbitrate;
Represent and defense before competent authorities (including National office of Intellectual property, customs, market surveillance agency, competition authority, arbitration and court);
Enforce rights.

Headquarter in Hanoi

Ho Chi Minh City Branch