IP enforcement in Vietnam

The court shall issue decisions on cancellation of provisional urgent measures already applied

Legal loopholes in handling trademark infringements in Vietnam is the article of Mr. Pham Duy Khuong - partner of SBLAW, this is published on the Vietnam Law Magazine. Intellectual property (IP) infringements in Vietnam, including infringements upon well-known trademarks, have prevalently occurred with subtle tricks and are considerably difficult to...

Intellectual property counterfeit goods referred to in this Law include goods bearing counterfeit marks and goods bearing counterfeit geographical indications (hereinafter referred to as counterfeit mark goods) and pirated goods [...]

Question: Our company is seeking for the assistance in order to settle the infringement action against their intellectual property right in Vietnam, please provide us SBLAW’s legal service in this field? Answen: Regarding this matter, SBLAW would like to confirm that we could assist your company in settling the infringement...

There are 4 measures for handling infingements of Intellectual property rights[...]

The following provisional urgent measures shall be applied to goods suspected of infringing upon intellectual property rights or to raw materials, materials or means of production or trading of such goods[...]

Lawyer Nguyen Tien Hoa, parter of SBLaw has joined the IPR roundtable at American Center, Diamond Plaza, HCMC. As part of the series of activities to celebrate the 20th anniversary of U.S.-Vietnam diplomatic relations, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court Ruth Bader Ginsburg has visited Vietnam and accompanied by...

In 05 April 2016, the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Planning and Investment issued the Joint Circular No. 05/2016 / TTLT BKHCN-MPI detailed regulations and guidelines for case handling trade name infringement of industrial property rights. This Joint Circular apparently shall become effective on May 20, 2016. SBLAW would...

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According to the Decree No. 99/2013/NĐ-CP of Government dated August 29, 2013 providing for Sanctioning of Administrative Violations in Industrial Property, the following authority state bodies have the jurisdiction in settling the IP infringement action in Vietnam: -          Inspector in the field of science and technology; -          Inspector in the field...

SBLAW would like to provide the client some information about anti-counterfeiting in Vietnam as follows: Q. Is there any difference between criminal protection and administrative protection? Is it practicable to claim for compensation? A: Yes, there are differences between criminal protection and administrative protection. You could only request the authority state bodies...

Answen: We are foreign company and have recently discovered that a few companies might have infringed its trademark rights and wishes to conduct searches on the companies to retrieve details of the companies and whether the companies are related. We may wish to take action against the companies if the...

When persons requesting the suspension of customs procedures have fulfilled their obligations specified according to the Intellctual property Law, customs offices shall issue decisions on suspension of customs procedures with regard to goods lots in question[...]

Administrative procedures shall be taken against the organizations and individuals committing one of the following acts of IPR infringement:    Infringing IPRs and therefore causing losses to the author, owner, consumers or the public;  Producing, importing, transporting or dealing in counterfeit goods under Article 213 of the IP Law or assigning others to...

One Manufacturing rubber glove Company sent a request to Market Supervisor of Binh Duong and request them to settle the infringement action against their industrial design in Vietnam of the Client.