ELITE: The VNIPO shall examine the request for validity renewal within 01 months from the date of receipt of the request.
If the request is considered valid, the VNIPO shall issue a decision on renewal of the protection title, register it, and publish it in the Industrial Property Official Gazette. If the application is considered invalid, the VNIPO shall notify the applicant of its intended refusal. If within a set time limit the requester fails to correct errors or unsatisfactorily corrects errors, makes no opposition or an unreasonable opposition, the VNIPO shall issue a decision on its rejection of the request for protection title renewal. Return the protection title to the owner.
ELITE: The required documents for an industrial design renewal application:
ELITE: Industrial design patents shall have a validity starting from the grant date and expiring at the end of 5 years after the filing date and may be renewed for two consecutive terms, each of 5 years. Requests for renewal of one or several industrial design variations stated in the industrial design patent must include a basic variation.
To have the validity of his/ her industrial design protection title renewed, a protection title holder shall file a request for renewal of protection titles’ validity and pay a validity renewal fee within six months before the expiration of the validity term. The payment of the validity renewal fee may be delayed for no more than six months after the expiration of the current validity term but the protection title holder shall pay the delayed renewal fee for each month of delayed payment.
