IP law document

Protocol Relating to the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks was adopted at Madrid on June 27, 1989. This is comprised of 16 articles. The system makes it possible to protect a mark in a large number of countries by obtaining an international registration that has effect...

Decree No. 105/2006/ND-CP Was adopted on September 22, 2006. The subject matter of the Decree is Copyright and Related Rights, Enforcement of IP and Related Law, Industrial Property. This Decree details and guides a number of articles of the Law on Intellectual Property on protection of intellectual property rights,...

National Assembly promulgated the Law amending and supplementing some articles of penal code which was passed on June, 19, 2009 under no. 37/2009/QH12. Two articles including 170, 171 which relate to Intellectual property (IP) were amended and supplemented. Particularly, article 170a is “Infringing upon copyright and related rights”. This...

Decree No. 24/2025/ND-CP, issued on February 21, 2025, amends and supplements several articles of Decree No. 98/2020/ND-CP on penalties for administrative violations in commercial activities, production, trading in counterfeit and prohibited goods, and consumer protection. This Decree aims to update and adjust regulations on administrative penalties in these fields...

The Customs Law was passed on June 29, 2001, came into force on January 1, 2002 and was amended in June 2005. The section 5 of the Customs Law is devoted to intellectual property. It contains 3 articles (articles 57, 58 and 59) setting up the conditions of the customs...

WIPO Copyright Treaty (WCT) was adopted in Geneva on December 20, 1996 consisting 25 articles. The aim of WCT is to develop and maintain the protection of  the rights of authors in their literacy and artistic works in a manner as effective and uniform as possible. The WCT is...

Decree No. 56/2009/ND-CP was passed on June 6, 2006. This Decree governs issues on acts, competence and procedures for sanctioning administrative violations in the culture and information activities. Administrative violations in cultural and information domains defined in this Decree include acts of violating state management regulations in press activities; publishing...

ASEAN Economic Community Blueprint (AEC 2025) was adopted at the 27th ASEAN Summit on 22 November 2015 in Kula Lumpur, Malaysia by the ASEAN leaders. AEC 2025 gives broad orientations for the development of ASEAN from 2016 to 2025. The AEC Blueprint 2025 is aimed toward obtaining the vision...

  The former Intellectual Property Law was passed on November 29, 2005 and came into force on July 1, 2006. It was amended by the afore-mentioned new Law on Intellectual Property, 2009. The former law was considered a great advance for the protection of the intellectual property, but also for complying...

Vietnam - U.S. Bilateral Trade Agreement (BTA) signed on July, 2000. The BTA is a result of making efforts by both parties over 4 years of negotiations and  a key step in the historic reconciliation between the United States and Vietnam. This is important foundation for Viet Nam to...

The Ordinance on Procedures for the settlement of Administrative Cases was passed on May 21, 1996 and came into force on July 1, 1996. It was amended in 2006 by the new Ordinance on Procedures for the settlement of Administrative Cases. The Ordinance provided for general principles concerning the administrative...

Criminal Procedure Code was passed on November 26, 2003 under No. 19/2003/QH11. This Code includes 346 articles divided into 37 chapters. This Code prescribe the order and and procedure of instituting, investigating, prosecuting and adjudicating criminal cases and executing criminal judgments. To download this Code, please click here: Criminal Procedure Code...

The Criminal Code was passed on June 29, 2009 and came into force on January 1, 2010. It created a few new rules amending and supplementing some articles of the former Criminal Code, 1999. When it comes to intellectual property provisions, only two changes in the Criminal Code, 2009 are...

Brussels Convention Relating to the Distribution of Programme-Carrying Signals Transmitted by Satellite was passed on May 21, 1974 at Brussels. Brussels comprises 12 articles providing for the obligation of each Contracting State to take adequate measures to prevent the unauthorized distribution on or from its territory of any programme-carrying...

The Ordinance on Procedures for the settlement of Administrative Cases came into force on July 1, 2006. It aims at amending a number of articles of the former Ordinance on Procedures for the settlement of Administrative Cases, 1996. The new Ordinance also contains general provisions about administrative proceedings and procedures...