Complex Product’s Industrial Design and the VNIPO’s Most Common Rejection of Drawings of Applied-for Designs

Car

Vacuum cleaner

Car ventilation panels

(the part can circulate independently so it can be protected as an independent design)

Lid

(the part can circulate independently so it can be protected as an independent design)

The red marked part cannot circulate independently

The pattern drawn on the teapot is not capable of independent circulation

Images on soft drinks cans are not capable of independent circulation

Interface, software icons are not capable of independent circulation

Applied-for designs

Refusal

How to overcome

Invalid photo/drawing because fertilizer bag is mixed with other object

Product photo bearing the design is not in the same scale, ie. 2 views marked with red arrows are different from the other views

Photographs taken without frontal face

Set of drawings lacks perspective view and left view. H6 & H7 as shown in the right column must be added

Set of photos/drawings is inconsistent because 2 views (upper) are drawings while the 2 views (below) are photographs.

Photo is rejected because it is not sharp (too many jagged lines)

Vietnam does not accept drawings of industrial designs represented by dashed lines (broken lines) since Vietnam does not protect partial designs

Set of drawings does not show the industrial design in the same state because the perspective drawing shown in the open state is different from the projection showing the industrial design in the closed state.

View of package, container can be replaced by a photo/drawing in the expanded state in the form of a plane as shown in Design no. 2 but could not do so for Design no. 1 because the cap cannot expand

Tree pruning scissors

(Patent for Design No. 16711)

Sometimes complicated industrial designs may require more photos/perspective drawings/sections, enlarged drawings to clarify the nature and design features of the industrial design.