Legal News – INVESTIP

July 26, 2021July 26, 2021

INVESTIP ensures IP registration consulting services during the social distancing period

Highlights, Legal News, Trends and IP Practice in Vietnam31 views

Because of the complicated situation of the Covid-19 pandemic in Vietnam, following Directive No. 16/CT-TTg of the Prime Minister of Vietnam and the Directive No. 17/CT-UBND of the People’s Committee of Hanoi city, from 24 July 2021, INVESTIP IP LAW ...

July 23, 2021July 23, 2021

The representative office of IPVN in Da Nang city stops directly consulting and receiving applications due to COVID-19 pandemic

Highlights, Legal News, Trends and IP Practice in Vietnam62 views

Due to the developing COVID-19 situation, the Intellectual property office of Vietnam (IPVN) has recently issued Notification No. 7355/TB-SHTT on the stop to directly receive applications in the IPVN’s representative office in Da Nang city as from 23 July ...

July 23, 2021July 23, 2021

Japan – Vietnam Patent prosecution highway (PPH) Pilot program – The final period of phase 2

Highlights, Legal News, Trends and IP Practice in Vietnam47 views

The Intellectual Property Office of Vietnam (IPVN) has announced that 100 PPH requests, for the period from 1 April 2021 to 30 September 2021 of Phase 2 under the pilot program, had been filed until 15 July 2021. The final period of Phase 2 will be from 1 ...

July 21, 2021July 22, 2021

Vietnam – Stop receiving all applications in Ho Chi Minh office and return offline filings in Hanoi office

Highlights, Legal News, Trends and IP Practice in Vietnam63 views

Because of the complicated situation of the Covid-19 epidemic in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) and following the HCMC government’s order on the city-wide social distancing, the opercoations of the representative office of the Intellectual Property Office ...

July 21, 2021July 23, 2021

Vietnam – Update on signatory issue for Intellectual Property (IP) documents

Highlights, Legal News, Trends and IP Practice in Vietnam42 views

Notice No. 6959/TB-SHTT just issued has settled controversial contents of Notice No. 13822/TB-SHTT of signatory on IP documents. According to the latter Notice issued on 23 November 2020, in general, the signatory for a company IP applicant on an IP ...

July 1, 2021July 22, 2021

Vietnam further extends the period of reducing some Industrial property fees by 50%

Highlights, Legal News, Trends and IP Practice in Vietnam, Uncategorized157 views

VIETNAM FURTHER EXTENDS THE PERIOD OF REDUCING SOME INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY FEES BY 50%

June 23, 2021July 22, 2021

Vietnam – The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) – Some Intellectual Property (IP) issues

Highlights, Legal News, Trends and IP Practice in Vietnam, Uncategorized148 views

The RCEP was signed on 15 November 2020 by the 10 members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) – Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam – and its five partners ...

June 23, 2021July 22, 2021

Vietnam – The patent office starts directly receiving applications as normal

Highlights, Legal News, Trends and IP Practice in Vietnam, Uncategorized114 views

The Intellectual Property Office of Vietnam (IPVN) has just informed that it has started directly receiving paper applications as normal from 23 June 2021 – according to Notice No. 5847/TB-SHTT dated 23 June 2021. Under its previous Notice, the IPVN ...

June 18, 2021July 22, 2021

Vietnam – The Budapest Treaty on the international recognition of the deposit of microorganisms for the purposes of patent procedure has come into effect

Highlights, Legal News, Trends and IP Practice in Vietnam, Uncategorized196 views

The Budapest Treaty officially took effect in Vietnam on 1 June 2021, as notified by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Also, according to Government resolution 10/NQ-CP dated 29 January 2021, the provisions of the Treaty will be applied directly in ...