Online IPR infringement is a serious issue in Vietnam, where a large number of offending rogue websites continue to operate and grow in popularity. This results from various reasons, firstly, the lack of adequate legislation or the current ineffective statutory regulations, and secondly, the weak enforcement....
Continue readingUnder the Law on Intellectual Property of Vietnam (the IP Law), intellectual property rights mean the rights of organizations and individuals to intellectual assets, including copyright and copyright-related the rights, industrial properly rights and rights to plant varieties. Meanwhile, industrial property rights mean the rights of organizations and individuals to inventions, industrial designs, layout-designs of semiconductor integrated circuits, trade secrets, trade marks, trade names, geographical indications and trade secrets they have created or own, and the right to repression of unfair competition....
Continue readingIn a recent court decision, a High People's Court affirmed the decision made by a lower-level court, in INTERLEGO AG v. Tianjin COKO Toy Co., Ltd. regarding copyright infringement of the Lego bricks. In its landmark decision, the high court confirmed industrial designs' dual protection under patent and copyright law as works of applied art....
Continue readingValidation or re-registration of a Singapore patent in Cambodia means the recognition, on request, of the effects of the Singapore patent in Cambodia, which enables a right holder of a Singapore patent to obtain his/her patent in Cambodia within a shorter timeframe. We provide below some remarks on the matter for your reference:...
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Continue readingIn 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....
Continue readingJapan Patent Office (“JPO”) has made its great efforts to support the development of intellectual property systems in countries where overseas business development is initiated by Japanese companies....
Continue readingBạn đã bao giờ bị cáo buộc xâm phạm sáng chế khi đang vận hành các hoạt động sản xuất, kinh doanh tại Việt Nam? Sự lo lắng, hoang mang không biết làm gì để ứng phó với các cáo buộc xâm phạm sáng chế có thể khiến bạn nghĩ nhiều đến các viễn cảnh tiêu cực sắp xảy đến cho doanh nghiệp của mình: Hàng hóa được sản xuất/kinh doanh của bạn là trái phép và có thể bị bắt giữ trên thị trường hoặc tại cửa khẩu, doanh nghiệp của bạn bị khởi kiện yêu cầu bồi thường...
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Vietnam follows “first to file” principle in establishing industrial property rights, whereby industrial property rights are granted to the first filer. This principle, on one hand, encourages IPR holders to register their intangible assets at the soonest time, but on the other hand, together with a “very open” and “very free” regime on "the right to register a mark" without imposing certain conditions like many countries in the world triggers rampant "trademark squatting" in Vietnam. ...
Continue readingRequisite Information 1. Applicant: full name, address and nationality; 2. Inventor: full name, address and nationality; 3. Priority data: filing number, date and country (if applicable); 4. International filing data: filing and publishing number (as to PCT patent applications)....
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