Intellectual Property News

The revised Law on Intellectual Property 2022 in Vietnam will take effect from January 1, 2023. We would like to introduce some significant changes to the trademark under the IP Law 2022: Sound trademarks According to the revised IP Law […]

  OFFICE of the National Assembly ——– SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM Independence – Freedom – Happiness ————— Number: 07/VBHN-VPQH Hanoi, June 25, 2019   THE LAW ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY   Law on Intellectual Property No. 50/2005/QH11, dated November 29, 2005 […]

On September 28, 2022, IP Vietnam announced the receipt of PPH requests under the PPH program between IP Vietnam and the JPO with time and quantity as follows: – Receiving time: From October 1, 2022, to March 31, 2023 – […]

Currently, IP Vietnam has transferred the Industrial Property (IP) application management system to the new system with which the IPLIB Digital Library is incompatible, leading to difficulties in updating data. To improve the service and better serve the exploitation of […]

In this issue, we provide you with the new points regarding the opposition before the grant of a patent (pre-grant opposition) under the amended Intellectual Property Law 2022 in Vietnam, which include: Opposition mechanisms under the amended Article 112 Similar […]

Clause 1 – Article 60 of the amended Law on Intellectual Property (IP) 2022 is amended as follows: Article 60. Novelty of inventions 1. An invention is considered novel if it does not fall into one of the following cases: […]

On June 16, 2022, the lawmakers passed the amendments and supplements to the Law on Intellectual Property with 95.58% of votes in favour. The revised law will start to take effect on January 1, 2023, except for the regulation on […]

Applicant’s huge interest when filing a patent application in Vietnam is early granting. Due to the backlog problem of IP Vietnam, the examination process is often prolonged. Generally, the average time to obtain a patent in Vietnam is approximately three […]

The Orgarnzing Committee of the 31st Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games 31) has called on organisations, enterprises, and people to respect and jointly protect the brand copyright of the Games. According to the orgarnzing Committee’s Regulation No. 849/QD-BTC2021, issued on […]

  In Vietnam, computer programs are expressly excluded from patentable subject matter under Clause 2 – Article 59 of the Vietnam IP Law. However, under Article 5.8.2.5 of the Patent Examination Guideline issued by IP Vietnam, it is recognized that […]

1 Year Grace Period Article 60 of the Intellectual Property Law (revised in 2019) in Vietnam: … … An invention shall not be considered to have lost its novelty if it is publicly disclosed by a person entitled to registration […]

  Decree 126/2021/ND-CP takes effect from January 1, 2022, which is to amend and supplement several provisions of Decree 99/2013/ND-CP dated August 29, 2013, on sanctioning administrative violations in the Intellectual Property (IP) field. Decree 126 essentially retains most of […]

Implementation time: from April 1, 2022, to March 31, 2025 (this is the 3rd phase of the program) Quota: 200 PPH requests per year for patent applications originating from the JPO (previously filed with the JPO). Our comments: – The […]

1. Vietnam – Japan PPH pilot program The National Office of Intellectual Property of Vietnam (NOIP) signed its first Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) agreement with the Japanese Patent Office (JPO) in October 2015, and the program has officially commenced since […]

  Copyright is an important part of intellectual property rights. Copyright protection plays a crucial role in contributing to economic, cultural and social development and is also one of the conditions for international economic integration. The Fourth Industrial Revolution creates […]