PATENT

OVERVIEW

NTT’s practices cover Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar. We pride ourselves in providing a full range of advice and patent services to clients, from the registration, prosecution, transactional services to litigation and enforcement of IP rights. At NTT, we offer patent teams of attorneys, engineers and technical experts in a diverse array of technological disciplines, including Semi-Conductor, Mechanical Engineering, Physics, Electricity, Electronics, Metallurgy, Computers, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, Chemistry, Pharmaceuticals, Biochemistry, and Biotechnology. We believe and assure that we can render reliable professional services at the most competitive cost about Patent, Utility model in our jurisdictions.

NTT’s goal is to provide high-quality patent application preparation and prosecution services for our clients in a timely manner and at a reasonable cost. At NTT, patent application preparation and prosecution are as important to us as anything we do. We do not view these activities as secondary services to be provided to clients for whom we are providing litigation, opinion, or counseling assistance.

To the contrary, we view the task of obtaining solid patent protection for our clients’ research and development investments to be a primary mission, from which licensing, enforcement, and other activities flow. We apply our expertise in litigation, opinion drafting and counseling to our patent preparation and prosecution practice and vice versa to maximize the value we add to these investments. We have developed a substantial base of patent application preparation and prosecution expertise, to achieve technical aptitude across a wide range of technologies, and to customize our patent practice to fit the needs of each client.

EXPERTISE

The patent prosecution group at NTT has a wide range of academic and practical experience in a variety of technologies including:

• Aerospace, including turbine engines;

• Automotive, including hydraulic brake systems, automatic transmissions, engine controls, vehicle navigation systems and tires;

• Biochemistry and molecular biology, including diagnostic assays and kits, virus characterization, vaccines, natural and recombinant DNA and RNA isolates and fragments, and genetically engineered organisms ranging from bacteria and viruses to pigs;

• Chemistry, including adhesives, agrochemicals, catalysts, cosmetics, foods, hazardous waste treatments, inks and toners, lubricants, osmotic membranes, pharmaceuticals, diagnostic reagents, and polymers;

• Communications, including networks and wireless systems;

• Computer control;

• Computer hardware and software, such as data/image processing, user interfaces and electronic games;

• Construction equipment;

• Consumer electronics and office equipment, including PCs, printers, facsimile machines, copiers, video projectors, cameras and watches;

• Materials science, including metallurgy and ceramics;

• Medical equipment, including electronic monitors, test kit structures and chemistry, dialysis machines, components and fluids, surgical instruments and artificial circulation and resuscitation devices and fluids;

• Physics/optics, including contact and eyeglass lenses, zoom lenses and projection exposure lenses;

• Power transmission equipment; Precision measurement, including touch trigger probes, laser interferometers, Raman spectrographs and electronic calipers;

• Robotics, including measuring, forming, assembly and painting robots;

• Semiconductors, including their chemistry, structure, manufacture and assembly onto printed circuit boards; and

• Textiles, including fibers, filaments and consumer and industrial woven and nonwoven fabrics and textile machinery.

SERVICES

Our expert Patent Practice Teams regularly provide the following services in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and Myanmar:

• Conduct patentability searches and studies;

• Conduct validity and infringement searches and studies;

• Draft the full range of chemical, biochemistry and mechanical patent applications;

• File and prosecute patent applications;

• Handle expedited and accelerated patent prosecution; 

• Provide advice and analysis regarding Office Actions from the Patent Office;

• Draft opinions, amendments, petitions and appeals to the Patent Office;

• Re-draft drawings and claims in-house;

• Arrange personal interviews with Patent Examiners;

• License the patent agreement;

• Negotiate and draft patent and technology license agreements;

• Manage patent annuities and portfolios; and

• Enforce patents.