An Austrian SME operating in the sport industry, developed a new patentable technology to manufacture sports equipment and was also seeking for a Vietnamese manufacturer....
Continue readingextra Automotive (“Textra”) is a medium-sized European company known for producing high-tech sensors for cars. After an extensive market study, Textra has decided to enter the ASEAN market...
Continue reading Company A wanted to apply for registration of a trade mark for “snack food” in Class 30 in Thailand, but found that a similar trade mark had already been registered for the goods “potato chips, crispy rice chips, corn flakes, and crackers”...
Continue reading the European company started to rethink the intentions of the local partner due to the refusal of signing the NDA during the negotiations and the scarce value that the local partner would attach to the contribution of know-how....
Continue reading Important amounts of investment are made in research and development to improve designs, techniques, and processes by SMEs to reduce production costs and increase sales....
Continue reading Both parties agreed that those changes or adaptations to create a new product prototype shall be subject to the signature of a separate and binding Non-Disclosure Agreement for each time the charges or adaptations shall be required. ...
Continue reading A Slovenian company in the automotive industry exhibiting at the Automotive Trade Fair in Vietnam is aware that a Chinese company which has been reported infringing its design in the past is also exhibiting at the same fair...
Continue reading The European company applied for trade mark registrations accordingly and simultaneously began negotiations with the local partner including an NDA for the duration of the negotiations in relation to technical information in relation to patents to grant non-disclosure and protect the novelty of the invention. ...
Continue reading EU SMEs shall be aware that they have to use their registered trade marks in Vietnam otherwise their mark could be challenged for cancellation and they can lose their rights....
Continue reading Background A Dutch company, Company A, specialising in the production and distribution of professional sealants for commercial and home use, had registered ownership of its trade mark and packaging design for its growing sales of sealants in Myanmar. After several years of sales in Myanmar, they were alerted by their local distributor to the existence of competing products bearing similar packaging design, but with a different logo, on sale in Yangon and Mandalay by resellers of hardware products. Action Taken Local attorneys worked closely with the local distributor of Company A to issue, cease and desist letters to resellers of the competing products....
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