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20 Jan2023Much like human life, trademarks also have different fates or destinies from birth to maturity. Some may proceed smoothly to being granted within the statutory time without any challenges from compete...
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19 Oct2022Compared to the current IP law, the amended IP Law 2022 has a number of changes and supplementations. Regarding trademarks, the below points are most important: (Please note, below, if the Law is men...
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To improve and raise awareness on IP rights, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) celebrates World IP Day every 26 April. This year, the theme was “Intellectual Property and Youth...
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28 Sep2022Vietnam has revised quite a lot of provisions with respect to establishment and enforcement of intellectual property rights in the Third Amendment to the IP Law 2005 (the “amended IP Law 2022&rd...
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14 Sep2022Copyright 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 condit...
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08 Jul2022The shopping habits of consumers have shifted significantly from offline to online in recent years due to the explosion of the COVID-19 pandemic worldwide. Quick to catch on to the changing consumer l...
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23 Jun2022On June 16, 2022, the Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Intellectual Property (“the amended IP Law 2022”, or shortly “the amended IP Law&rdquo...
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In today’s digital world, domain names are vital for businesses to compete and thrive. While a trademark is rightfully obtained via registration at the Intellectual Property (IP) office, the sam...
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19 Apr2022Nowadays, although the protection of intellectual property rights (“IPR”) in Vietnam has been focused on, there are still many cases where individuals/organizations have “acc...
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19 Apr2022There have been many cases where the trade name of an enterprise is identical or confusingly similar to a protected trademark of another subject. This leads to a conflict of rights with pre-existing i...
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07 Apr2022Pursuant to international norms, the protection of industrial design is jurisdictional, meaning it is limited within the boundary of the territory where the application for protection is submitted and...
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Trademarks, protected by intellectual property (IP) rights, either in the form of registration or recognition through use, must be a distinct sign as it plays a major role in making each enterprise&rs...
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04 Nov2021Recently, the registrations of the mark “ST25” for rice and rice-related products by four US companies in California before the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) made headl...
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06 Oct2021Bad faith trademark filings have become prevalent in jurisdictions worldwide, including Vietnam. While neither the definition of “bad faith” nor the criteria for determining it is specifie...
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13 Sep2021This article summarizes notable amendments and supplements related to industrial property rights mentioned in the working documents distributed at the Workshop on the Draft Law amending and supplement...
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18 Mar2021Only “unofficially” transferrable prior to 15 August 2016[1] According to the VNNIC’s report, by the end of March 2020, the country code top-level domains (c...
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18 Mar2021Well-known trademark definition in the international law and national law Legal concept “well-known trademark” is not defined in the Paris Convention, TRIPs Agreement and ...
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18 Mar2021Copyright exceptions and limitations are the legal principles set forth in Article 9(2) of the Berne Convention and Article 13 TRIPs[1] with the aim of limiting the exclusivity...
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12 Mar2021Are architectural works protected by copyright? How? Yes. Architectural works may be protected in two forms: either a design drawing of a building or a comp...