MINISTRY OF 
FINANCE  
-------  SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM  
Independence - Freedom - Happiness  
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No. 263/2016/TT -BTC  Ha Noi, November 14, 2016  
  
CIRCULAR  
ON THE RATE , COLLECTION, PAYMENT , MANAGEMENT AND USE 
OF INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY FEES AND CHARGES  
Pursuant to the Law on fees and charges dated November 25, 2015;  
Pursuant to the Law on State budget dated June 25, 2015;  
Pursuant to the Decree No. 120/2016/ND -CP dated August 23, 2016 by the 
Government providing guidance on the implementation of a number of articles 
of the Law on fees and charges;  
Pursuant to the Decree No. 103/2006/ND -CP dated September 22, 2006 by the 
Government detailing and guiding the implementation of a number of articles of 
the Law on Intellectual property regarding industr ial property and the Decree 
No. 122/2010/ND -CP dated December 31, 2010 by the Government amending 
and supplementing a number of articles of the Decree No. 103/2006/ND -CP. 
Pursuant to Decree No. 215/2013/ND -CP dated December 23, 2013 by the 
Government defin ing the functions, tasks, entitlements and organizational 
structure of the Ministry of Finance;  
At the request of the Director of the Tax Policy Department,  
The Minister of Finance hereby promulgates the Circular on rate, collection, 
payment , management an d use of industrial property fees and charges . 
Article 1. Governing scope and regulated entities  
1. Governing scope  
This Circular regulates the rate, collection, payment, management and use of 
industrial property fees and charges.  
2. Regulated entities  
This Circular applies to organizations/individuals filing application for 
requesting the peformance of industrial property right protection works  and 
services ; The State administrative bodies carry out  works, services of  2 
 
protection of industrial property rights and other organizations and individuals 
relevant to  the collection, payment of charges and  fees of industrial property.  
Article 2. Charge and/or fee payers  
Vietnamese and foreign organizations and individuals  filing application for 
requestin g the State administrative body to perform industrial property right 
protection works, services  shall pay charges and/or fees in accordance with this 
Circular.  
Article 3. Charge and/or fee collector  
National Office of Intellectual Property performing  indus trial property right 
protection works, services  shall be in charge of collecting charges and/or fees of 
industrial property (hereinafter referred to as charge and/or fee collector).  
Article 4. Charge and/or fee rates  
1. Rate of charges and/or  fees for ind ustrial property shall be collected according 
to the industrial property charge and/or fee schedule enclosed with this Circular.  
2. Charges and/or fees specified in this Circular shall be collected in Vietnam 
dong, except for charges and/or fees collected via the international offices of 
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) which is in Swiss Franc 
(CHF) on the basis of the conversion from the rate in Vietnam dong according to 
the official exchange rates of the United Nations.  
3. Organizations and  individuals shall pay industrial property charges and/or 
fees directly or by post to the charge and/or fee collector or transfer the charges 
and/or fees payable to the account of the charge and/or fee collector.  
For collection via the international  office s of WIPO, charges and  fees shall be 
transferred to the accounts of the collector opened at commercial banks or 
Vietnamese credit institutions.  
Article 5. Declaration and transfer of charges and/or fees  
1. Not later than the Monday of every week, fee collector shall transfer the 
collected fees of the previous week to the account for fees to be transferred to 
state budget which is opened at the State Treasury.  
2. Charge and/or fee collector shall make monthly declaration of charges and/or 
fees and strik e a balance of the collected charges and/or fees annually according 
to clause 3 Article 19 and transfer charges and/or fees to the State budget 
according to Clause 2 Article 26 of the Circular No. 156/2013/TT -BTC dated 3 
 
November 06, 2013 by the Minister of Finance guiding the implementation of a 
number of articles of the Law on Tax administration; Law on amendments to a 
number of the Law on Tax administration and the Decree No. 83/2013/ND -CP 
dated July 22, 2013 by the Government.  
Article 6. Management and us e of fees and charges  
1. Charge collector shall transfer the whole amount of collected charges to the 
state budget according to the applicable State Budget Index.  
2. Fee collector may retain 85% (eighty five percents) of the collected amount of 
fees before  transferring money to the state budget to pay the costs serving its 
operation according to Article 5 of Decree No. 120/2016/ND -CP dated August 
23, 2016 by the Government.  
The remaining amount (15%) shall be transferred to the state budget according 
to the  applicable State Budget Index.  
Article 7. Organization of implementation  
1. This Circular comes into force from January 01, 2017 and replaces the 
Circular No. 22/2009/TT -BTC dated February 04, 2009 by the Minister of 
Finance and clause 1 Article 1 of Circ ular No. 152/2013/TT -BTC dated October 
29, 2013 by the Minister of Finance.  
2. If an application regarding industrial property submitted before the effective 
date of this Circular which has not been processed and for which charges and/or 
fees have not been  paid is now requested to be processed, charges and/or fees 
prescribed in this Circular shall be paid when it has been handled.  
3. Activities relevant to the collection, transfer, management and use of charges 
and/or fees of industrial property which are n ot specified in this Circular shall 
comply with the Law on fees and charges; the Decree No. 120/2016/ND -CP 
dated August 23, 2016 by the Government detailing and guiding the 
implementation of a number of articles of the Law on fees and charges; the 
Circular  No. 156/2013/TT -BTC dated November 06, 2013 by the Ministry of 
Finance guiding the implementation of a number of articles of the Law on Tax 
administration; Law on amendments to the Law on Tax administration and the 
Decree No. 83/2013/ND -CP dated July 22, 2013 by the Government; the 
Circular of the Minister of Finance guiding the printing, issuance, management 
and use of invoices of collection of fees and charges belonging to the state 
budget and their amending and replacing documents (if any).  4 
 
4. Organizat ions and individuals subject to paying charges and/or fees and 
relevant agencies are responsible for implementing this Circular. In the course of 
implementation of this Circular, if facing any difficulty, organizations and  
individuals should promptly infor m the Ministry of Finance for its consideration 
and guidance./.  
  
  
  P.P. THE MINISTER  
THE DEPUTY MINISTER  
 
 
 
 
Vu Thi Mai  
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY FEE AND CHARGE SCHEDULE  
(Enclosed with Circular No. 263/2016/TT -BTC dated November 14, 2016 by the 
Ministry of Finance)  
No. List of industrial 
property fees and 
charges  Rates (thousand VND)  
Inventio
ns 
(includin
g utility 
solutions
) Industri
al design  Tradem ar
ks Geographic
al 
indication  Layout 
designs 
of 
integrate
d 
circuits  
A. Industrial property charges               
1 Charges  for filing applications for registration of protection of 
industrial property rights  
1.1 Charges  for filing 
application 
(including the 
divisional 
application, the 
conver sion 
application ) 150 
1.2 Charges for 
requesting  
extension of time 
limit to response to 
the notification of 
the charge and fee 
collector (for each 
time of permission 
for prolongation ) 120 
2 Charges for issuance of Protection title  and certificates of registration 
of the contract on assignment of indust rial property rights  
2.1 Charges  for 
issuance of 
protection title 120 
  - If the patent 
application includes  
more than 1 
independent point 100 100 100     6 
 
of protection claim , 
the industrial 
design application 
includes  more than 
01 variation  for 
each product or the 
trade mark 
application includes  
more than 01 group 
of 
products/services, 
then from the 
second independent 
point/ variation /grou
p, charges  for each 
independent point/  
variation/ group 
shall be paid  
2.2 Charges for 
issuance of 
certificate of 
registration of the 
contract on 
licensing of 
industrial property 
rights  120 
3 Charges  for maintenance, extension, termination, cancelation of 
validity of protection titles  
3.1 Charges  for 
maintenance of 
validity of patents 
for inventi ons or 
utility solutions or 
charges  for 
extension of 
validity term of 
trade mark 
protection 
certificates 
(regarding patents 
for inventions or 
utility solutions (for 
each year): 100 100 100     7 
 
applicable to 
independent point 
of protection claim ; 
regarding 
trade mark (10 
years): applicable  
each group of 
products/services; 
regarding industrial 
designs (5 y ears): 
applicable to each 
variation  of each 
product)  
3.2 Charges  for late 
maintenance/extensi
on of validity term 
(applicable to each 
month of late 
submission)  10% of the fee for 
maintenance/extension      
3.3 Charges  for 
requesting  for 
termination, 
cancelation of 
validity of 
protection titles  50 
4 Charges  for issuance of industrial property representation service 
practice certificates and publication  and registration of industrial 
property representative  
4.1 Charges  for 
issuance of 
industrial property 
representation 
service practice 
certificates  200 
4.2 Charges  for 
publication of 
decisions on 
issuance of 
industrial property 
representation 
service practice 
certificates; 150 8 
 
decisions on 
deletion of 
industrial property 
representative, 
decisions on 
addition/deletion of 
the industrial 
property 
representation 
service org anization  
(including the 
modification of 
information about 
industrial property 
representatives)  
4.3 Charges  for 
registration of 
decisions on 
issuance of 
industrial property 
representation 
service practice 
certificates 
(including the 
modification of 
information); 
decisions on 
deletion of 
industrial property 
representative, 
decisions on 
addition/deletion of 
of the industrial 
property 
representation 
service 
organization (includ
ing the 
modification of 
information about 
industrial property 
representatives)  150 9 
 
B. Industrial property fees 
1 Fees for industrial property examination  
1.1 Fees for 
examination  of 
industrial property 
applications; 
applications for 
narrowing of 
protection 
coverage ; for 
settlement of 
complaints  (for 
inventions: 
applicable to each 
independent point 
of the protection 
claim , for industrial 
designs: applicable 
to each variation  of 
each product, for 
trade marks: 
applicable to each 
group with up to 6 
products/services, 
for geographical 
indications and/ or 
layout designs of 
integrated circuits: 
applicable to each 
application) 
Regarding 
inventions: fees  for 
formality 
examination  shall 
be equivalent to 
20% of the revenue, 
fees for substantive 
(ex-officio) 
examination shall 
be equivalent to 
80% of the revenu e 900 700 550 1200  180 
  - If the invention 
description contains 40   120     10 
 
more than 6 pages, 
the trade mark 
application contains 
more than 6 
products/serv ices in 
a group, an 
additional fees  shall 
be paid for each 
further 
product/service  
  - Fees for 
international 
classification of 
inventions/industria
l designs 
(applicable to each 
sub-heading); of 
products/services 
for trade marks 
(applicable to each 
group of not 
exceeding 6 
products/services)  100 100 100     
  + For a group of 
more than 6 
products/services, 
an additional fee 
shall be paid for 
each further 
product/service      20     
1.2 Fees for 
examination  of 
application for 
priority right 
(applicable to each 
application)  600 600 600     
1.3 Fees for 
examination  of 
application for 
modification of the 
industrial property 
registration 
application 160 160 160 160 160 11 
 
(applicable to each 
content subject to 
modification of 
each application) - 
except modificati on 
according to the 
protection title  
issued oversea at 
the request o f the 
charge collector  
1.4 Feesfor 
examination  of the 
application for 
conversion of 
applications  
(applicable to each 
application subject 
to convert ) 160 160 160   160 
1.5 Fees for 
examination of the 
application for 
registration of 
assignment of 
industrial property 
right (applicable to 
each protection 
title) 230 230 230   230 
1.6 Fees for 
examination  of the 
application for 
extension, 
maintenance or 
modification of a 
protection title; 
extension or 
Ahead -of-time 
termination  of the 
certificate of 
registration of the 
contract on 
licensing of 
industrial property 
objects (applicable 160 160 160 160 160 12 
 
to each protection 
title); the recording 
of modification of 
information about 
industrial property 
representative 
relevant to 
industrial property 
objects  to National 
register; the 
modification of the 
certificate of 
registration of the 
contract on 
licensing of 
industrial property 
objects , including 
the modification of 
transfer scope, 
extension of 
duration (applicabl e 
to each protection 
title related to the 
modified content) 
and other 
modification 
(applicable to each 
certificate of 
licensing industrial 
property rights ) 
1.7 Fees for 
examination  of the 
application for 
termination of 
validity of 
protection 
title(applicable to 
each protection  
title) 180 180 180 180 180 
1.8 Fees for 
examination  of the 
application for 
cancelationof 390 390 390 390 390 13 
 
effectiveness of 
protection title  
(applicabl e to each 
protection title ) 
1.9 Fees for 
examination  of the 
dossier of 
examinations for 
the industrial 
property 
representation 
profession, 
industrial property 
assessment 
profession 
(applicable to each 
profession)  300 
1.1
0 Fees for the 
rechecking of the  
results of 
examinations for 
the industrial 
property 
representation 
profession, 
industrial property 
assessment 
profession 
(applicable to each 
profession)  150 
1.1
1 Fees for 
examination  of the 
application for an 
industrial property 
representative 
service practice 
certificate, an 
intellectual property 
assessor’s cards , a 
Certificate of 
industrial property 
assessment 
organization , an 250 14 
 
application for 
deletion of an 
industrial property 
representative, an 
application for 
addition/deletion of 
the name of an 
industrial property 
representative 
service  organization  
or an industrial 
property assessment 
organization 
(including the 
modification of 
information about 
industrial property 
representative)  
2 Fees  for handling of dissenting opinions related to industrial property  
application  
  Fees for handling of 
third party’s the 
dissenting opinion 
against the issuance 
of the protection 
certificate  (for the 
trade marks: 
applicable to each 
group, for industrial 
designs: applicable 
to each varriation  of 
each product, for 
inventions/utility 
solutions: 
applicable to each 
independent points, 
for geographical 
indications and 
designs: applicable 
to each application)  550 550 550 550 550 
3 Fees  for information search  about industrial property  
  Fees for sear ch of 
information to 600 480 180 180   15 
 
serve the 
examination and 
settlement  of 
complaints and 
other activities 
within their 
responsibility (for 
trade marks: 
applicable to each 
group of 6 
products/services, 
for industrial 
designs: applicabl e 
to each varriation  of 
product, for 
inventions: 
applicab le to each 
independent point 
of the protection 
application, for 
geographical 
indications: 
applicable to each 
application); the 
search for 
associa ted 
trade marks serving 
the examination  of 
applications for 
registration of a 
contract on 
assignment of 
industri al property 
rights (applicable to 
each protection 
title) 
  - If the searching 
subject is a 
trade mark 
containing more 
than 6 
products/services in 
a group, an 
additional fees  shall     30     16 
 
be paid for each 
further 
product/service  
4 Fees for publication, official registration of industrial property  
information  
4.1 Fees for publication  
of information 
about industrial 
property  120 120 120 120 120 
  - If an application 
contains more than 
1 figure, an 
additional fees shall 
be paid for each 
further figure  60 60     60 
  - If the invention 
description consists 
of more than 6 
pages, an additional 
charge shall be paid 
for each further 
page  10         
4.2 Fees for registration 
of information 
about industrial 
property  120 120 120 120 120 
5 Fees  for use of protection title 
5.1 Fees for use of 
protection title : for 
inventions/utility 
solutions: 
applicable to each 
independent point 
of the protection 
application in each 
year, for 
trade marks: 
applicable to each 
group of 
products/services   
in each 10 years,   700 700     17 
 
for industrial 
designs: applicable 
to each varriation  of 
each product in 5 
years  
  - 1st year or 2nd 
year, applicable to 
inventions or utility 
solutions  300         
  - 3rd year or 4th 
year, applicable to 
inventions or utility 
solutions  500         
  - 5th year or 6th 
year, applicable to 
inventions or utility 
solutions  800         
  - 7th year or 8th 
year, applicable to 
inventions or utility 
solutions  1200          
  - 9th year or 10th 
year, applicable to 
inventions or utility 
solutions  1800          
  - 11th year to 13th 
year, applicable to 
inventions or utility 
solutions  2500          
  - 14th year to 16th 
year, applicable to 
inventions or utility 
solutions  3300          
  - 17th year to 20th 
year, applicable to 
inventions or utility 
solutions  4200          
6 Fees for examination  of international registration of industrial property  
6.1 Feesfees for 
preliminary formal 300         18 
 
examination of the 
application of 
international 
invention to submit 
it to the 
international office 
and the 
international 
searching authority  
6.2 Fees for 
international 
registration of 
trade mark havin g 
origin in Vietnam, 
excluding Fees  
must be paid to the 
international office      2000      
6.3 Fees for 
examniation  of the 
modification, 
assignment , 
extension, 
territorial 
expansion, 
limitation of the list 
of products or the 
termination or 
cancellation  of 
effective ness 
ofinternationally 
registered 
trade mark  having 
origin in Vietnam .     1000      
6.4 Fees particularly 
applicable to 
international 
registration of 
trade mark under the 
Madrid Protocol 
designating 
Vietnam            
  - Fees for 
examination of     3600      19 
 
application , 
applicable to each 
group of products 
of services  
  - Fees for 
examination of 
application for 
extension, 
applicable to each 
group of products 
of services      3200