Filing Requirements
Laos
Patents
Priority Claiming Applications
Priority claiming applications must be filed within 12 months of the earliest priority date.
Minimum requirements for filing:
- Details of applicant(s) and inventor(s) (full name, address, and nationality)
- Specification including title, description, claims, and abstract (max 150 words) in native language, preferably English
- Drawings (if any)
- PCT application number and filing date for international applications
- Number, date and country of priority application(s) if claiming priority rights
- Search Report from foreign patent body or international organization (if available)
- Notarized Power of Attorney
- Notarized Deed of Assignment if applicant differs from inventor
- Lao translation of specification and abstract within 90 days from filing date
Non-Priority Claiming Applications
Minimum requirements for filing:
- Details of applicant(s) and inventor(s) (full name, address, and nationality)
- Specification including title, description, claims, and abstract (max 150 words) in native language, preferably English
- Drawings (if any)
- Search Report from foreign patent body or international organization (if available)
- Notarized Power of Attorney
- Notarized Deed of Assignment if applicant differs from inventor
- Lao translation of specification and abstract within 90 days from filing date
Industrial Designs
Filing Requirements
Priority claiming applications must be filed within 6 months of the earliest priority date.
Minimum requirements for filing:
- Details of designer(s) and applicant(s) (full name, address, and nationality)
- Title or indication of product(s) to which the design is applied
- The international classification code under the Locarno Agreement. We can prepare it for you
- Drawings of the design, or 7 copies of original photographs (including perspective, front, back, top, bottom, left and right view)
- Brief description of the design in English
- Certified copies of priority application(s) if claiming priority rights
- Notarized Power of Attorney
- Notarized Deed of Assignment if applicant differs from designer
Trademarks
One trademark application covers goods/services in only one class. Registerable mark types: trademark, service mark, collective mark.
Filing Requirements
Priority claiming applications must be filed within 6 months of the earliest priority date.
Minimum requirements for filing:
- Details of applicant(s) (full name, address, and nationality)
- Description of the mark including meaning, colors claimed, and Roman letter transliteration if necessary
- 1 print for black and white mark or 20 prints for color mark (5–10 cm size)
- List of Goods or Services to be protected and, preferably, their International Classification(s)
- Certified copy of priority application and English translation thereof if claiming Paris Convention priority
- Regulation governing the use of mark if the mark is a collective mark
- Faxed notarized Power of Attorney
Documents that may be late filed:
- Original notarized Power of Attorney within 60 days from filing date
Renewal and Recordal
Vietnamese requirements for renewal:
Request for renewal must be filed within 6 months before the expiry date.
- Notarized Power of Attorney
- Certificate of Industrial Design or Trademark Registration (copy)
- 1 print for black and white mark or 20 prints for color mark (5–10 cm size)
Recordal of an assignment or license agreement:
- Notarized Powers of Attorney from both Assignor and Assignee
- Original or certified copy of the agreement with appendices and English translations
- Patent, Petty Patent, or Certificate (copy)
Recordal of changes of name/address:
- Notarized Power of Attorney reflecting new name/address
- Original notarized Statutory Statement
- Patent, Petty Patent, or Certificate (copy)
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