Criminal liability of corporate legal entities and enforcement of Intellectual property rights in Vietnam
The Criminal Code 2015, as amended and supplemented in 2017 (hereinafter called as “Criminal Code”) came into force on January 01, 2018. In the history of the formation and development of Vietnamese criminal laws, this is the first time Criminal Code has ...
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The representative office of IPVN in Da Nang city stops directly consulting and receiving applications due to COVID-19 pandemic
CategoriesHighlights, Legal News, Trends and IP Practice in Vietnam
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 ...
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Japan – Vietnam Patent prosecution highway (PPH) Pilot program – The final period of phase 2
CategoriesHighlights, Legal News, Trends and IP Practice in Vietnam
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 ...
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Vietnam – Stop receiving all applications in Ho Chi Minh office and return offline filings in Hanoi office
CategoriesHighlights, Legal News, Trends and IP Practice in Vietnam
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 ...
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Vietnam – Update on signatory issue for Intellectual Property (IP) documents
CategoriesHighlights, Legal News, Trends and IP Practice in Vietnam
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 ...
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Vietnam – The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) – Some Intellectual Property (IP) issues
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 ...
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Vietnam – The patent office starts directly receiving applications as normal
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 ...
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