IP law document

From April 1, 2026, the new Law on Technology Transfer will officially take effect, bringing strategic changes to promote endogenous capacity and modernize the country's key sectors. This is considered an important turning point helping businesses access new incentive policies while improving the quality of people's lives through technology. ...

Decree No. 104/2006/ND-CP was passed on September 22, 2006 including 39 articles. This Decree provides detailed regulations and guidelines for execution of some articles on Plant Variety Rights in the Intellectual Property Law including responsibility for State administration, the order and procedures for establishing plant variety rights, rights and...

On December 10, 2025, the National Assembly passed the Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Intellectual Property, which will take effect from April 1, 2026. From a policy perspective, this is not just a technical adjustment but the next step in the restructuring process...

  The Ordinance on Handling of Administrative Violations was passed on July 2, 2002 and came into force on October 1, 2002. It was amended in 2008 by the new Ordinance on Handling of Administrative Violations. The Ordinance foresees general provisions in case of administrative violations and also regulates the...

Bern Convention for the Protection of Literacy and Artistic Works was adopted on September 9, 1886 and came into force in December, 1887. The Bern Convention is composed of 38 articles regulating issues on protecting of literary and artistic works and an appendix. This Convention deal with the protection...

Under no. 29/2006/PL-UBTVQH, Ordinance amending and supplementing a number of articles of Ordinance on procedures for the settlement of Administrative cases was promulgated. This Ordinance amends and supplements a number of articles of May 21, 1996 Ordinance on Procedures for the Settlement of Administrative case, which was amended and...

The Civil Procedure Code was passed on June 15, 2004, and came into force on January 1, 2005. It provides processes and procedures for the settlement of civil affairs and the enforcement of civil judgments. More precisely, when it comes to intellectual property, articles 25-4, 29-2 and 34-1 of the...

Vietnamese Civil Law code 2001 of Vietnam was replaced by the code 2005. National Assembly passed on this code on June, 14, 2005. Vietnamese civil law code 2005 regulates the issues on civil rights and obligations of individual and organizations, as well as property and ownership…The Vietnamese Civil Law...

On November 22, 2024, in Riyadh, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) officially adopted the Riyadh Design Law Treaty (RDLT). This is a historical milestone aimed at establishing common standards for the application and management of industrial designs, helping designers protect their work internationally more easily, quickly, and cost-effectively....

Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property was adopted in 1883. The Paris Convention applies to industrial property in widest sense, including patent, utility models, industrial designs, trademarks, service marks,  trade names, indication of source or appellation of origin, and the repression of unfair competition. The Paris Convention...

The Competition Law was passed on December 3, 2004 and came into force on July 1, 2005. It foresees general provisions for acts of competition’s restriction and of unfair competition. The law also provides procedures for the settlement of competition cases and measures to deal with violations of the competition...

This Decree was passed on November 28, 2007. Decree no. 57/2005 regulates penalties in the field of Plant Varieties relating administrative violations. This Decree admends and supplements a number of articles for that Decree including 3 articles. For the full text of the Decree, please click here: Decree Revision and supplementing...

Circular No. 22/2009/TT-BTC was enacted on February 04, 2009. The Circular includes 3 major parts and one Annex setting out the table of industrial property fees and charges rate. This Circular defines issues on procedures for collecting, paying (the way to pay, type of money, time…) and managing and...

National Assembly promulgated the Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Intellectual property (IP) which was passed on June, 19, 2009. This statute document enhances the applicability, makes more suitable for reality and trengthens the framework of Law 2005 on Intellectual property. The Law...

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...