IP enforcement in Vietnam

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...

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...

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...

Where the plaintiff can prove that an act of infringing upon intellectual property rights has caused material damage to him/her, he/she shall have the right to request the court to decide on the compensation level on one of the following bases[...]

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...

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

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

Question: We are foreign company and would like to register Music Copyright registration in Vietnam, please provide us the quoation? Answer:  Thanks for your conservation concerning the subject matter. Regarding your enquiries, we would like to advise you on procedure and our updated fee schedule in relation to the copyright registration proceeding...

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...

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

In IP aspect, set-out requirement are included as but not limited to the following[...]

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[...]

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...