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...

The Applicant may give their own opinion of trademark disclaimers in Vietnam, if any, at the stage of filing, that will be considered only as a reference by the Examiner later on. However, given that the Applicant are not required to express their opinion of the disclaimer at the beginning,...

Within the framework of this article, Ageless will point out some similarities and differences when responding to a refusal of trademark in Laos between a national application and an international registration....

In general, the trademark protection in Vietnam for the Korean, Chinese and other Non-Latin characters is difficult, unless these trademarks are recorded as wide use and recognization by the IP Ofice of Vietnam, OR they are presented in a graphic form or other special forms....