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Required documents of Geographical Indication applications

According to the Article 106 in Vietnam Intellectual Property Law[...]

What is Geographical indication?

According to the Article 22.2 in Intellectual property Law of Vietnam

Subject matters not protected as geographical indications

According to the Article 80, there are some subject matters shall not be protected as geographical indications, includes[...]

The application for a Vietnam GI registration

The GI application shall consist of the following documents:

Right to register geographical indications

According to the Article 88 in Vietnam Intellecutal property Law, The right to register Vietnamese geographical indications belongs to the State[...]

Using a geographical indication in Vietnam

According to the Article 124.7 in Intellctual property Law, use of a geographical indication means the performance of the following acts[...]

GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATION PROTECTION OF “QUẢN BẠ” FOR SEEDLESS PERSIMMON

On 05/07/2017 the National Office of Intellectual Property has issued Decision No.2148 /QĐ-SHTT on granting Geographical indication registration certificate No. 00056 for the famous “Quản Bạ” seedless persimmon. Hà Giang Provincial People’s Committee is the organization in charge of managing this GI. Quản Bạ is a district of Đồng Văn...

Reputation, quality and characteristics of products bearing geographical indications

According to the Article 81 in Intellectual Property Law, provisions of reputation, quality and charcteristics of products as follows[...]

Filing the Geography Indication Application

Filing the Vietnam Geography indication application is carried out as following:

Procedures for Obtaining a Geographical Indication

In order to reach the Geographical Indication registration certificate , the applicants have to fulfill the whole examination procedure consists of following steps[...]

GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATION PROTECTION OF “HƯNG YÊN” FOR LONGAN FRUIT

On January 23rd, 2017, the National Office of Intellectual Property has issued Decision No. 186/QD-SHTT on granting Geographical indication registration certificate No 00055 for the famous “Hưng Yên” longan fruit. Hưng Yên’s Department of Science and Technology is the organization in charge of managing this GI. Longan fruit is long...

General conditions for geographical indications eligible for protection

According to the Article 79 in Vietnam Intellectual Property, A geographical indication shall be protected when it satisfies the following conditions[...]

GRANT OF PROTECTION OF GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATION “KAMPOT” FOR PEPPER PRODUCT

On December 28, 2016, the National Office of Intellectual Property of Vietnam issued Decision No. 5065/QĐ/SHTT to grant the Geographical Indication Certificate No. 00054 for the famous Kampot pepper product. For Kampot pepper is protected the in Cambodia. Kampot is the name of a region in Cambodia. Kampot pepper was...

Notification of substantive examination results in Vietnam

On the date of expiration of the time limit for substantive examination of an application at the latest, the NOIP shall send to the applicant one of the following notices[...]