The amended Vietnam IP Law 2022 has some notable changes in industrial designs such as: supplementing contents to the concept of an industrial design; simplify requirements for industrial design applications; deferment of publication date of industrial design application; new mechanism for industrial design opposition, supplementing legal grounds for refusal of...

There are many considerable aspects of patent in Vietnam amended IP Law 2022, such as: amendment of provisions on novelty of inventions, supplement of provisions on the entitlement to registration of inventions, supplement of the definition of “Confidential invention”, supplement of provisions on security control for inventions before filing...

The anti-counterfeiting activities in fact show that the handling of crime of manufacturing and trading counterfeit goods in Vietnam has been facing many difficulties, especially in proving the intentional fault of the offenders. Besides, crimes are increasingly more complicated and the lack of active prevention by the violated trademark owner...

The Vietnam IP Law 2022 has a lot of new points on trademark protection, such as: The official protection of sound marks, amendment of regulations on a well-known trademark, provisional suspension of trademark examination, “Bad faith” is legislated as ground for the handling of opposition and invalidation, introduce a new...

The Vietnam amendment of Intellectual Property Law will take effect on January 01, 2023 except for provision on sound marks protection shall take effect on 14 January 2022 and provisions on protection of test data for agricultural chemicals shall take effect on 14 January 2024. The primary areas covered by...

After successful trademark registration in Vietnam, in order to maintain the validity and effectively exploit the trademark, the owner should pay attention to a number of points such as: fulfil the obligation to use the mark; carry out trademark renewal; make amendments if there is a change in the name...