IP enforcement in Vietnam

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...

Criminal punishment shall be applied to those person who deliberately commit acts of infringement of the copyright, related rights and industrial property rights to the trademarks and geographical indications being protected in Vietnam at the commercial scale.  Upon detecting a sign of an IPR infringement offence under Articles 170a and...

SBLAW would like to inform you the required documents for settling the infringement and border control in Vietnam as below:

1. Requester apply the measure to control intellectual property-related imports, exports shall have the following obligations:

Measures to control intellectual property-related imports and exports include[...]

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...

SBLAW-your IP lawyers in Vietnam, provides the following legal services:

This process of handling trademark infringement in Vietnam includes the following steps:

SBLAW would like to provide some information about selected reccent credential in the field of copyright enforcement as follows:

Question: We might file a lawsuit re: the counterfeit product found in Vietnam. We manufactured ion exchange resins and export to the world. Recently, we found a Vietnam company sold counterfeit resins. This is why we would file a lawsuit in Vietnam. Before we go more further, our counsel...

After launching products in to the Vietnam market, your company may face with infringement by other company, which are local companies or even companies from other Asian countries[...]

Stay the completion of customs procedures This measure of stay of the completion of customs procedures shall be taken at the request of the holder of an IPR protected in Vietnam, in order to collect information and evidence about a goods shipment to enable the IPR Holder to exercise his/her...

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:  Regarding Article 2(3) “Regulation on Data Security of Drug Registration Records” (“Regulation on Data Security”), please explain what is meant by “circulated pharmaceutical substances.” Regarding the term “business secret” as it is used throughout the Regulation on Data Security, please explain the criteria by which it is determined...

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...