What kind of things is excluded from protection as an inventions or utility solution under the Vietnam Patent Law?
The following subject matters are excluded from patent protection as invention or utility solution: a) Scientific ideas, principles and discoveries; b) Methods and systems of economic organization and management; c) Methods and systems of education, teaching and training; d) Methods for training of domestic animals; e) Language systems, systems of information, data classification and arrangement; f) Designs and planning diagrams for construction projects, projects of regional planning and zoning; g) Solutions for appearance of products which are aesthetic and not technical in nature; h) Defined signs, schedules, rules and laws, symbols; i) Computer software, designs and layout of electronic chips, mathematical models and reference diagrams and the like; j) Breeds of animal and seeds of plants; k) Methods of disease prevention, diagnosis and treatment for human beings and animals; l) Processes of a biological nature (except for microbiological processes) for production of plants or anim
