Legal news in June 2018 in Viet Nam

Intellectual property law New provisions of Decree 22/2018/ND-CP guiding the Law on Intellectual Property Copyright and related rights are an intellectual property protected in Vietnam under the Bern Convention to which Vietnam is a member; Law on Intellectual Property of 2005, amended and supplemented in 2009 (the "IP Law"); and subsidiary legislation guiding the IP Law. Previously, regulations on protection of copyright and related rights were detailed in Decree No. 100/2006/ND-CP dated 21 September 2006 ("Decree 100") and Decree No. 85/2011/ND-CP dated 20 September 2011 ("Decree 85"). However, after more than 10 years of implementation, some provisions of the IP Law need...

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