
(a) Inventors who have created inventions, industrial designs, layout designs by their own labor and at their own expense 3612w/QD-SHTT dated 24 February 2023 on the settlement of the request for invalidation.Īrticle 86.1 of the Law on Intellectual Property (effective at the time of granting the patent) states that the following organizations and individuals have the right to register inventions, industrial designs and layout designs: Despite the difference, the IPVN referred to legal provisions to settle this case in Decision No. However, the two documents told different stories about how the patent application was filed.

The request and arguments showed that the two persons were friends and had discussions about the invention “360-degree rotating house in cistern”. The IPVN informed Nguyen Van Chanh of the request and he filed arguments against the request. Nguyen Van Luong filed a request for invalidation of the patent with the Intellectual Property Office of Vietnam (IPVN), based on the ground that Nguyen Van Chanh (the recorded patent owner) did not have the right to file the application (one of the statutory grounds for patent invalidation). Accordingly, Nguyen Van Chanh is both the inventor and patent owner. Nguyen Van Luong recorded as the two co-inventors.


Nguyen Van Chanh was recorded as the patent owner, with Mr. A Vietnamese patent was invalidated due to the fact that one of the inventors did not transfer the right to file the patent application to the applicant (the rest inventor).
