The Myanmar Trademark Law is planned to come into force in March 2023. Accordingly, the Soft-opening period will close and the procedures for trademark registration/and Grand-opening will commence. The trademark owners who were not eligible for registration during the Soft-opening period will be able to file their trademark applications under...

Trademark registration in Laos is one of the first things businesses need to do since the first-to-file principle. This is a solid legal basis to help businesses protect their brands, rest assured to develop their brands, and avoid legal troubles and unfair competition practices....

There are 8 key changes on copyright in Vietnam IP Law 2022 such as: amending and supplementing definition of authors and co-authors; supplement the regulations that copyright is the basis for refusing trademark protection; amending and supplementing regulations on moral rights and asset rights; supplementing a number of new terms...

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...