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How to Accelerate the Examination of Patent Applications in Vietnam

The 2025 Law Amending and Supplementing a Number of Articles of the Law on Intellectual Property (the IP Law), effective from 1 April 2026, allows an applicant to request expedited substantive examination of a Vietnamese patent application where certain conditions prescribed by the Government are satisfied. In addition, on 31 March 2026, the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) issued Circular No. 10/2026/TT-BKHCN, effective from 1 April 2026, with substantive amendment on the mechanism of using search and examination results of corresponding foreign patent applications to expedite the examination of Vietnamese patent applications. Furthermore, the ASEAN Patent Examination Co-operation Plus (ASPEC+) program was officially launched on 6 April 2026. With the addition and revision of the mechanisms, applicants now have more options to expedite the examination of patent applications in Vietnam. Below is a summary of the options.

8/10/2026Read more →

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Accelerate the Examination of Vietnamese Patent Applications by Using Search and Examination Results of Corresponding Foreign Patent Applications

The 2022 Law Amending and Supplementing a Number of Articles of the Law on Intellectual Property (the IP Law) introduced a provision allowing the Intellectual Property Office of Vietnam (IPVN) to use search results and substantive examination results of a patent application issued by a foreign patent office in the course of substantive examination of the corresponding patent application in Vietnam. Article 16.9 of Circular No. 23/2023/TT-BKHCN (Circular 23) guided the implementation of this provision of the IP Law as follows: substantive examination results of a foreign patent office used by IPVN in the course of substantive examination of a Vietnamese patent application (foreign results) must be issued by an authority included in a list approved by the Minister of Science and Technology (MOST) upon the proposal of IPVN. However, from the effective date of Circular 23 until now, MOST has not issued the list of foreign patent offices whose examination results IPVN may use. As a result, this provision has not been effectively applied in practice since it took effect. On 31 March 2026, MOST issued Circular No. 10/2026/TT-BKHCN, effective from 1 April 2026 (Circular 10), replacing Circular 23, which substantially amended the above provision, specifically providing that foreign results must be issued by a national or regional intellectual property authority recognized as an International Searching Authority or International Preliminary Examining Authority under the PCT. With this amendment, this provision can now be applied conveniently in practice.

8/7/2026Read more →

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Accelerate the Examination of Vietnamese Patent Applications in Certain Special Cases

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