Patent/Utility model

A patent owner has the following rights:   In case the patent is for a product: 1.1. the right to prevent others, without the owner’s authorization, from making, importing, offering for sale, selling, or using the patented products; 1.2. the right to prevent others, without the owner’s authorization, from keeping such products for the purposes
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In court proceedings for infringement of a patent for a process for obtaining a new product, where the same product is produced by a person other than the patent holder or a person authorized by him, it shall be deemed that such product was obtained by the patented process in the absence of proof to
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Requisite Information Applicant: full name, address and nationality; Inventor: full name, address and nationality; Priority data: filing number, date and country (if applicable); International filing data: filing and publishing number (if applicable). Requisite Document English specification(including title, description part, claims, abstract and drawings, if any); Power of Attorney (notarization is required); Notarized Deed of Assignment
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Formality examination Upon receiving an application for a patent, petty patent, or industrial design, MOST will conduct a formal examination to ensure that the application is complete and meets the requirements. If the application is incomplete, MOST will notify the applicant, who will then have 60 days from the date of the notification to complete
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Filing application Domestic or foreign individuals, legal entities and organizations may apply for a patent, petty patent, or registration of their industrial property with the Ministry of Technology and Science or with an international intellectual property registration organization to which the Lao PDR is a party. Any individual, legal entity or organization residing in a
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Laos applies the first-to-file principle, meaning that priority is determined by whoever files the patent or petty patent application first, or if priority is claimed, the earliest priority date. An application may contain a declaration claiming priority based on one or more earlier national, regional, or international applications filed by the applicant, either in Laos
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Patent means the official certificate issued by the state organization to protect inventions that they are new, involve an inventive step and are capable of industrial application; Invention means the technical solution to create new product or process of production to resolve a specific problem; Petty patent means the official certificate issued by the state
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