Vipco Ha Noi

General requirements for inventions eligible for protection

   1. An invention shall be eligible for protection by granting of an Invention Patent if it meets the following conditions:  

      a) To be novel;  

      b) To involve an inventive step;  

      c) To be susceptible of industrial application.

   2. Unless it is common knowledge an invention shall be eligible for protection by granting of a Utility solution Patent if it meets the following conditions:  

      a) To be novel;  

      b) To be susceptible of industrial application.

Subject matters not protected as inventionsThe following subject matters shall not be protected as inventions:

      1.  Discoveries, scientific theories; mathematical methods;

      2. Schemes, plans, rules or methods for performing mental acts, training domestic animals, playing games, doing business; computer programs;  

      3. Presentations of information;  

      4. Solutions of aesthetic characteristics only;  

      5. Plant varieties, animal varieties;

      6. Processes of essentially biological nature for the production of plants and animals other than microbiological processes;  

      7. Disease prevention, diagnostic and treatment methods for human or animals.