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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...

Trademark Law treaty was passed on October 27, 1994 consisting of 25 articles. The goal of this Treaty is to standardize and streamline national and regional trademark registration procedures by simplifying of certain features of those procedures. That reason why trademark applications and administration of trademark registrations in multiple...

The ASEAN-Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership (AJCEP) was signed in April 2008. AJCEP shows a effective and intensive cooperation between a regional organisation in Southeast Asia – ASEAN and a developed country – Japan. This Agreement consists of trade in goods, trade in services, investment, and economic cooperation. Major provisions...

Patent Cooperation Treaty was passed on at Washington on June 19, 1970 and modified on February 3, 1984, and on October 3, 2001. PCT comprises 8 chapters and 69 articles and came in force on April 1, 2002. The Patent Cooperation Treaty assists applicants in finding protection internationally for...

Joint Circular No. 02/2008/TTLT-TANDTC-VKSNDTC-BVHTT&DL-BKH&CN-BTP was passed on April 3, 2008 and entered into force on May 22, 2008. Joint Circular includes 2 parts (A and B). Part A defines the disputes over intellectual property rights which fall under the handling competence of people’s courts (specified in Clause 4, Article...

  The Intellectual Property Law was passed by the Vietnamese National Assembly on June 19, 2009 and came into force on January 1, 2010. This law aimed to amend and supplement some articles of the former Intellectual Property Law passed in 2005. One of the new law major provisions’ is, firstly,...

Decree No. 100/2006/ND-CP of September 21, 2006, detailing and guiding the implementation of a number of articles of the Civil Code and the Intellectual Property Law regarding copyright and related rights was passed on September 17, 2006 and came into force on October 17, 2006. This Decree was divided...

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...

  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...

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...

CIRCULAR No. 01/2008/TT- BKHCN was enacted on February 25, 2008 regulates procedures for granting and withdrawing of  industrial property certificate of assessor card and industrial property assessment organizations. Following this Circular, subjects of industrial property assessment comprise: Assessment of inventions and semi-conductor integrated circuit layout designs,  Assessment of industrial...

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...

Agreement between the Government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and the Swiss Federal Council on the Protection of Intellectual Property and on Co-operation in the Field of Intellectual Property was adopted on 6 and 7 July 1993. The Agreement comprises 9 articles and 2 Annex providing for an...

Civil procedure code was passed on June, 15, 2004 under No. 24/2004/QH11. This code includes 418 articles divided into 36 chapters. Civil procedure code provides for the order and procedures for setting civil case and matters and enforcing civil judgments. Click here to download: Civil Procedure Code (2004)

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...