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July 1, 2022July 1, 2022

VIETNAM – AMENDED IP LAW

The National Assembly has just passed the amended Law on Intellectual Property (amended IP Law) which will take effect from 1 January 2023. The IP Law was issued in 2005 and amended several times. This time, the amendments are quite broad. Below are the ...

June 22, 2022June 22, 2022

Vietnam: Amended Intellectual Property (IP) Law WAS PASSED – The Progress of Amending the Law

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On 16 June 2022, the National Assembly passed the amended IP law with 95.58% of approval and the law will take effect from 1 January 2023. However, the final version of the law has not yet been available to the public. Without the final version of the law ...

June 16, 2022June 16, 2022

Termination of a trademark on the basis of non-use

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Legal regulations and practical application I. Current regulations of Vietnamese IP law Article 136, Clause 2 of the Intellectual Property Law (IP Law) on the obligation to use trademarks provides: “The owner of the mark is obliged to use the mark ...

June 2, 2022June 3, 2022

NGUYEN DUC THANG – IP STAR 2022

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Our Partner, Director of Patent Department – Nguyen Duc Thang has recently been recognized by Managing Intellectual Property (MIP) Magazine as: IP STAR 2022 (Vietnam) (https://www.ipstars.com/Lawyer/Nguyen-Duc-Thang/Profile/71700#profile) Mr. Thang ...

May 17, 2022June 2, 2022

Vietnam – translations of Patent guidelines for inventions relating to Computer programs

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legitimatize Letter - Intellectual Property Law

May 16, 2022May 16, 2022

It is time to legitimatize Letter of consent into the Intellectual Property Law

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Current law and applicable practice: The current IP Law of Vietnam took effect as from July 1, 2006, which is almost silent on Letter of consent, except for Article 87 with provisions on the right to file a trademark application as below: – ...

April 28, 2022May 18, 2022

Vietnam – Additional patent guidelines for inventions relating to computer programs

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MADRID PROTOCOL international trademark registration

April 4, 2022April 6, 2022

Contradiction in Vietnamese regulations regarding to time limit for responding to provisional refusal against international trademark registration through Madrid system designated in Vietnam

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The purpose of international registration process is to create maximum convenient conditions for trademark owners, allowing them to register trademarks in multiple jurisdictions (contracting parties) with a single, uniform application filed through a ...

March 29, 2022April 6, 2022

Not narrowing the scope of IP rights infringement to be settled by administrative measures

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On March 28, 2022, regarding the draft Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the IP Law, which was just sent by the National Assembly Standing Committee to full-time National Assembly deputies to research and comment. Accordingly, the ...