According to the Official Notice No. 3392/TB-SHTT dated November 19, 2019 of the National Office of Intellectual Property (NOIP) of Vietnam, as of January 01, 2020, the new version of IPC 2020.01 (under Strasbourg Agreement) shall be officially applied for the classification of technical solutions which claim for protection in...

According to the Official Notice No. 23009/TB-SHTT dated November 19, 20219 of the National Office of Intellectual Property (NOIP) of Vietnam, the Vietnamese version of the NICE Classification 11th Edition (11-2020), translated by NOIP from the English version published by WIPO, will be officially applied to the classification of goods...

Recent years have witnessed the huge efforts of Cambodia in attracting foreign investment and accordingly, many measures to facilitate to Intellectual Property (IP) Rights have also been implemented by signing a number of IP Cooperation Agreements with Singapore, China and EUIPO, the latest Memorandum of Understanding on Patent Cooperation (click...

The Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) has come into effect since January 14, 2019 set a number of requirements for changing Intellectual Property (IP) practices in Vietnam (for detailed information, please see our previous post here). In order to comply with such requirements, the draft to amend...

CPTPP has officially come into effect in Vietnam since January 14, 2019. In which, there are many strict regulations that require Vietnam to amend the legal system on IP, especially, the regulation on trademark protection and patent protection in Vietnam to comply with the commitments in CPTPP. ...