IP enforcement in Vietnam

Damage caused by acts of infringing upon industrial property rights include[...]

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[...]

Question: According to Article 128.1 of the Intellectual Property Law, applicants for licenses for trading in or circulating pharmaceuticals or agrochemical products need to specifically request such data to be kept secret. Please also access the compliance of Article 128 with the Article 39 of the TRIPS Agreement. Answer: In...

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[...]

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The following acts of infringing upon industrial property rights shall be administratively sanctioned:

1.The Client and a Vietnamese Company entered a license agreement for importing and distributing the products bearing the protected trademark of the Client in Vietnam.

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

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

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...

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...

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...

 Question: Which agencies in Vietnam have the power to deal with IPR infringement acts? What are the applicable procedures for dealing with IPR infringement acts? Answer: Pursuant to Article 200 of the 2005 IP Law of Vietnam, the following agencies shall  have the power to deal with IPR Infringement acts: 1. Courts 2. Inspectorates 3....

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

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