Trademark search: Has your logo been registered by others?

Latest 2020 guide on how to look up trademarks on NOIP’s database, by Asoka Law's attorney.

1. Why do you need to search NOIP’s database before designing a logo?

Due to busy schedules, many start-up businesses often forget to register their trademarks. Only through a period of operation, with turnovers and a relative number of customers, will the businesses begin to “refine” its internal legal work, including the exclusive registration of trademarks.
However, this process is quite “risky”.

It is necessary to search NOIP’s database to know whether your logo is registered. 

Because there will be cases in which upon registering trademark, an enterprises find out that the logo it used for a long time is accidentally similar to others, causing confusion, or even registered to own by other individuals/ enterprises.  

Read more: Exclusive trademark registration - The secret for corporate asset protection

The only action that the businesses can taken then is changing all or part of their brand identity system. The cost of “rebuilding” and marketing another brand toward customers is extremely costly.

2. It is advisable to have a lawyer to accompany the trademark design team

The lawyer accompanying the brand design team  will promptly check the sketches of the logo/ trademark to see whether or not it is identical/ similar to other parties’ which have been already registered. 

 A trademark is an asset that is not easily measured by money.

Approving a logo/ trademark with the participation of an attorney will ensure that: the trademark created by your design team shall be “unique”, therefore fully legal to be accepted by the NOIP.

3. Latest guide for trademark searching

You can log on to http://www.noip.gov.vn, which is the official website of the National Office of Intellectual Property (NOIP) - the entity that manages and approves applications related to intellectual property in Vietnam (including trademark registration applications). At the website, you can also find legal information and documents regulating the field of intellectual property.

Click on the Digital Library of Industrial Property (left corner) to continue searching.

On Digital Library of Industrial Property category (located at the left corner of the website), you can search for information about applications for protection of inventions, utility solutions, industrial designs, publicly announced trademarks and industrial property objects that have been granted certificates and are being protected in Viet Nam.

With the 2020 latest guide for trademark search above, you can completely search for the trademarks which are already protected in Vietnam, then compare them with your own to review / eliminate cases of confusion or similarity.

4. Choose a lawyer team to assist in trademark clearance search

If you do not want to waste your time and are not sure about knowledge on trademark search, you can ask Asoka Law’s Lawyers to offer:

• Free trademark search: just within 30 minutes!
• Preparing trademark protection registration applications: Within 60 minutes - from the time of receiving the full information.
• Speedy submissions for priority - Just within another 60 minutes, from the time applications are signed by clients.

Contact Asoka Law Lawyers today to experience the “Speedy Trademark Protection Knight” Service Pack. Let us impress you with our enthusiastic and devoted staff!

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