Patents
We provide clients with a full range of patent services, including drafting, filing, prosecution of patent applications, appeals, licensing and assignments, and enforcing patents through negotiation and litigation. In addition, we offer professional advice on patentability, validity and infringement.
We prosecute patent applications both in Vietnam and abroad (especially through PCT, in the U.S.)
Our patent team includes attorneys, registered industrial property attorneys and technical specialists who have degrees in law or/and physics, mechanical and electrical engineering, biotechnology, chemistry, chemical manufacturing processes, computer technologies. These patent members were former senior examiners of the Intellectual Property Office of Vietnam (IP Vietnam), or studied scientific disciplines or intellectual property law at internationally prestigious universities, or have worked as scientists at universities or academies before joining the firm.
Additionally, LÊ & LÊ also has a unique network of specialists in many areas of technology, enabling us to handle patent matters with high quality and cost-effectiveness. Translating patent documents, such as specifications for filing with the IP Vietnam, is carried out by our on-site team in cooperation with outside skilful (and tested) translators who are instructed and whose translations are checked carefully by the former.
LÊ & LÊ has worked to protect many important utility patents for Apple Inc. in electronic, mechanical, and communications fields.
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Trademarks
The firm engages in all aspects of trademark law, including: advising on and searching to determine registrability, availability, infringement; filing and prosecuting trademark applications; handling opposition, cancellation actions and litigation; licensing and assigning trademark rights both in Vietnam and overseas.
Our firm also provides a trademark watching service in Vietnam, which monitors the Industrial Property Official Gazette of the IP Vietnam as well as trademarks used and/or advertised on the local market, allowing us to advise in advance any possible trademark misappropriation by third parties and, if necessary, to initiate appropriate actions.
LÊ & LÊ has prosecuted thousands of trademark applications for its clients in both Vietnam and abroad. Some important marks represented and registered by LÊ& LÊ in Vietnam include:
APPLE INC. Reg. 50106
adidas AG Reg. 174414, 174415
adidasInternationalMarketingBV Reg.171458
THE BOSTON CONSULTING GROUP
The Boston Consulting Group Inc.
Int’l Reg. 901620 (successfully appealed to the MOST against an IP VN 2020 refusal)
Reebok International Limited Reg. 174700, 238919, 260268, 273412
Mitchell & Ness LLC Reg. 333935
Anheuser-Busch, LLC Reg. 34282, 300802
HP HEWLETT PACKARD GROUP LLC Reg. 41050
Aktiebolaget SKF Reg. 72084
SMITHKLINE BEECHAM P.L.C. Reg. 45709
METRO CASH & CARRY GMBH Reg. 52243
MOTOROLA TRADEMARK HOLDINGS, LLC Reg. 97579, 97580
LG ELECTRONICS INC. Reg. 278663, 297837, 315178, 335347, 322084, 343638
DAEWOO E&C CO., LTD. Reg. 199840 & 208056
Star Television Productions Limited Reg. 161862, 169961, 255057
Sunkist Growers, Inc Reg. 148575, 240888, 338313
ManpowerGroup Inc. Reg. 193597
KOHLER CO. Reg. 81245, 81244
PRUDENTIAL IP SERVICES LIMITED Reg. 43444
DC COMICS Reg. 9119
Our firm successfully represented our longtime clients in numerous landmark cases related to internationally famous marks, including " Adidas", "Budweiser" , "Kohler" , "Manpower" , "Motorola (Stylized M in a circle)" , "Sunkist" , "Superman" , and The Boston Consulting Group, before the IP Vietnam and MOST.
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- Le Hoai Duong has been named as an IP Star 2020/21 and 2021/22
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Designs
LÊ & LÊ has represented its clients in both prosecution of design applications in Vietnam and abroad, and in enforcement of Vietnamese design patents. Our firm’s design team has extensive experience in evaluating states of the art, infringements and validities of design patents, resolving conflicts with design patentees or infringers, opposing/invalidating design patents, and appeals to the IP Vietnam’s Board of Appeals or Ministry of Science and Technology.
LÊ & LÊ has worked to protect many popular and important designs for Apple Inc, including iPod, iPhone, iPad, Mac Pro, MacBook Air, and Watch.
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Copyrights
Copyright is a right granted by law to the author of original works in the literary, artistic or scientific domain, such as books, works of art, dramatic works, musical works, photographic works, motion pictures, works of architecture, computer programmes. In order to qualify for copyright protection, a work must be original (independently created). Copyright will arise automatically as soon as a copyrightable work is fixed in a tangible form. There is no requirement to register copyright in Vietnam. However, a copyright registration certificate establishes prima facie evidence of the validity of the copyright. This is useful to the copyright claimant in litigation for copyright infringement. Related rights are granted to performers, producers of phonograms, and broadcasting organizations.
The copyright and related rights services of LÊ & LÊ include conducting copyright searches, securing copyright registrations, negotiating and drafting copyright/related rights license agreements, counseling, enforcing copyrights/related rights through negotiation and litigation.
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Licensing & Contracts
Binding and enforceable contracts are among the most effective ways to secure and protect intellectual property rights.
LÊ & LÊ attorneys have extensive experience in taking due diligence, negotiating and drafting intellectual property licenses/assignments agreements.
In addition, the firm has a great deal of experience with many other types of contract or agreement, such as franchising agreements, employee innovation agreements.
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