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Building up your brand in 20 years in Vietnam, but losing it in a few days. WHY?

Download In June 2022, Hoa Sen Co., Ltd., (HOA SEN) the owner of the "ZACOPE" trademark for pure drinking water products, complained to KENFOX IP & Law Office, "I don't understand why the company's sales in the first half of the year have dropped so drastically." HOA SEN did investigation and found that rivals utilized similar labels bearing the trademark "ZACOP." A check of the protection title, however, revealed that the registration of the trademark had expired. This occurs because the previous employee resigns and transfers the trademark to the new employee, who is unaware of the requirement to renew the...

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Strategies to deal with IPR infringement in Vietnam – Protecting IPRs for Korean businesses in Vietnam

Bilateral working visit between KENFOX IP & Law Office and Mr. Yim Dong Sook, Korea, in order to reach an agreement on Intellectual Property Right (IPR) enforcement cooperation Mr. Yim Dong Sook, one of the experts in IPR enforcement executing his work mainly in Korea, paid a working visit to KENFOX IP & Law Office in Hanoi during the final days of September in an effort to discuss strategies to deal with IPR infringement in Vietnam in order to best protect Korean enterprises’s IPR in Vietnam. ...

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Bảo vệ quyền sở hữu trí tuệ cho các doanh nghiệp Hàn Quốc tại Việt Nam – chiến lược ứng phó vấn nạn xâm phạm quyền

Chuyến thăm và làm việc song phương về thực thi quyền SHTT giữa KENFOX IP & Law Office và ông Yim Dong Sook Ông Yim Dong Sook là một trong những chuyên gia thực thi xâm phạm quyền SHTT tại Hàn Quốc. Với mong muốn cung cấp các giải pháp tốt nhất trong lĩnh vực SHTT cho các doanh nghiệp Hàn Quốc tại Việt Nam, ông Yim Dong Sook đã có chuyến thăm và làm việc trực tiếp KENFOX IP & Law Office tại Hà Nội, Việt Nam vào những ngày cuối của tháng 9. Trong chuyến thăm và làm việc này,...

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6 benefits of registering a work for copyright protection in Vietnam – Why should a work be registered with Copyright Office of Vietnam?

In conformity with Berne Convention, the IP Law of Vietnam also provides, under Article 6.1, that “Copyright shall arise at the moment a work is created and fixed in a certain material form, irrespective of its content, quality, form, mode and language and irrespective of whether or not such work has been published or registered”. The aforesaid legislation means that copyright registration is not a pre-requisite for entitlement of copyright protection and proceeding with legal actions. A work is automatically protected in Vietnam without having to register it with Vietnamese competent authority....

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