The Hague Agreement concerning the International Registration of Industrial Designs officially took effect in Vietnam on December 30, 2019.

There have been recently a concern if the information at http://www.noip.gov.vn/ of IP VIETNAM (http://noip.gov.vn/web/english/industrial-designs and http://noip.gov.vn/en_US/web/english/industrial-design-examination-procedure) is contradictory, the table below, provided by IPHOUSE & ASSOCIATES, highlights the difference of the prescribed period for the nofication of refusal (in other words, the timing of the start of the substantive examination) between an international application filed under the Hague and a national counterpart.

In the light of the above, the information should be considered accurate at the time of publication until the amendment of the IP law.