INDUSTRIAL DESIGN

OVERVIEW

Industrial design is a painstaking problem in underdeveloped countries like Vietnam, Lao, Cambodia and Myanmar. At NTT, our industrial design team work collaboratively with other specialized teams within their integrated corporate structure to assure strongly comprehensive protection, to provide top quality services in enforcing, exploiting and obtaining the widest protection possible for the design of your products in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar.

EXPERTISE

To prepare properly the design applications, we rely on our in-house draftsmen, who are experts in both drawings skills and technical background in compliance with the statutory requirements of the Design Office. This help NTT’s clients to receive the perfect services at competitive price as they save their budget arising from amendment to drawings as well as from any office action due to defect of drawings. Beside, our design attorneys regularly attend friendly discussion with design examiners at the Patent Office to have real solutions and to resolve any outstanding design issues and expedite the design patent process as well.

SERVICES

Our design team counsels clients on the full range of design patent protection through our offices in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar, including:

• Conduct patentability searches and studies;

• Conduct validity and infringement searches and studies;

• Re-draft drawings in-house;

• File and prosecute design patent applications at the Patent Office;

• Handle expedited and accelerated design patent prosecution; 

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

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

• Arrange personal interviews with Patent Examiners;

• License design patent agreement;

• Negotiate and draft design patent license agreements;

• Manage design patent annuities and portfolios; and

• Enforce design patents.