Trademark is the priceless asset with your company because of being used to distinguish goods or services of different organizations or individuals.
It usually takes a long time and attempts for your company to gain the trust and belief from customers on your goods and trademark. However, if there is any other same trademark of the same goods like yours, it will easily make customer mistake or confuse and lead many damages to your company such as distinguishing capacity, losing reputation and sale decline.
In fact, many international companies after co-operating with domestic companies to distribute or sell good, find that co-operators steal their trademark by registered trademark protection in National offices intellectual property. Because trademark is protected independently in each nation, it is easy for violators to do steal trademarks.
To protect your rights and benefits, you should request Vietnam IP authority to cancel violated trademark. With highly professional staff and great experience in IP aspect in Vietnam, ANT Lawyers would like to support you in cancelling against of trademark in Vietnam as follows:
Cancellation against of trademark in Vietnam
Under the Article 96 of the Law on Intellectual Property of Vietnam (IP Law), a certificate of trademark registration may be cancelled wholly or partly, by any third party’s request.
The applicant may request to the National Office of Intellectual Property (NOIP) in written form to cancel protection titles in the cases specified provided that they pay fees and charges.
Period for filling cancellation request
To request cancellation of a trademark due to the Applicant’s bad faith: the period for lodging such a request is the whole term of a Protection Title.
To request cancellation of a trademark due to other legal reasons: the period for lodging such a request is within 5 years as from the granting date.
The case for cancellation
A certificate of trademark registration may be cancelled wholly or partly, by any third party’s request, in the following cases:
The registration applicant has neither had nor been assigned the right to register an invention, industrial design, layout-design or mark;
The subject matter of industrial property fails to satisfy the protection conditions at the time the protection title is granted.
Required documents
Proofs (if any);
Power of attorney;
Written justification of the reason for request (clearly stating the serial number of the protection title, reason, legal grounds, contents of the request for termination or Cancellation of part of or the entire protection title) and relevant documents.
Time and procedures
In case a request for cancellation of trademark protection title is made by a third party, the NOIP shall notify in writing the third party’s opinions to the protection title holder, setting a time limit of two months from the date of notification for the trademark protection title holder to respond.
After considering opinions of the parties, the NOIP shall issue a decision on cancellation of part of the entire protection title or notify its refusal to cancellation the trademark protection title.
If disagreeing with the NOIP’s decision on handling of the request for Cancellation of the trademark protection title, the requester or an involved party may lodge a complaint about that decision or the relevant notice.
A decision on cancellation of a trademark protection title shall be published in the Industrial Property Official Gazette and recorded in the National Register of Industrial Property within two months from the date of its signing.
ANT Lawyers – IP services in Vietnam is supported by a team of experienced patent, trademark, design attorneys with qualification and skills handling full range of legal services relating to intellectual property rights in Vietnam. We have specialized in the preparation and registration of patents, trademarks and designs for our clients.
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