Intellectual Property News – Page 2

AIPPI 2024: Trademark across borders

At the AIPPI World Congress in Hangzhou, a panel highlighted the Lifestyle Equities v. Amazon case, a landmark moment in intellectual property enforcement within the digital economy. UK-based Lifestyle Equities...

Vietnam joins the Hague System to facilitate registration of industrial designs

Vietnam has joined the Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement concerning the international registration of industrial designs. On behalf of the Government of Viet Nam, Minister of Science and Technology...

World Intellectual Property Day – April 26, 2020 Innovate for a Green Future

Every April 26, we celebrate World Intellectual Property Day to learn about the role that intellectual property (IP) rights play in encouraging innovation and creativity. World IP Day 2020 puts...

Project on Supporting Registration for Protection of Viet Nam’s Geographical Indications in Japan – Promoting the Potential Cooperation between Viet Nam and Japan through Special Cultural Ambassadors

Within the Project, Binh Thuan Dragon Fruit, Buon Ma Thuot Coffee and Luc Ngan Lychee are selected to be “special cultural ambassadors” for advertisement of Viet Nam’s geographical indications to...

Universities urged to seek IP protection for research products

Enterprises have been reluctant to cooperate with universities on commercialisation of their inventions and products because of the lack of intellectual property (IP) protection, according to the Vietnam Invention Association.

Promoting cooperation on geographical indications with Department of Intellectual Property of Laos

On 04 February 2018, within the framework of Minister Chu Ngoc Anh’s visit to Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR), Mr. Dinh Huu Phi, Director General of the National Office...

Vietnam makes Intellectual Property headway

Vietnam is ranked 37th among 45 countries in the latest Intellectual Property (IP) Index report compiled by the US Chamber of Commerce’s Global Intellectual Property Centre. The report, released for...

Vietnam elected WIPO General Assembly Chairman

Ambassador Duong Chi Dung, head of Vietnam’s Permanent Mission to the UN, the WTO and other international organisations in Geneva, has been elected Chairman of the World Intellectual Property Organisation...

Viet Nam hosted the 6th ASEAN – EPO Heads of Intellectual Property Offices Conference

The historic flood recently occurring in Thailand was the most severe natural disaster in the past 50 years in this country which has seriously affected multi-faceted aspects of the socio...

Geographical indication protection of “Son La” for Coffee

On 28 September 2017, The National Office of Intellectual Property has issued Decision No. 3262/QĐ-SHTT on granting Geographical indication registration certificate No. 00058 for the famous “Sơn La” coffee. Sơn...