Every year on April 26th, the world celebrates World Intellectual Property Day (WIPD). In 2024, the theme takes on a particular significance: “IP and the SDGs: Building our common future with innovation and creativity.” This theme highlights the crucial role that intellectual property (IP) plays in driving progress towards the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals…
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In today’s interconnected and globalized world, the significance of intellectual property and its protection has never been more crucial. Patents, in particular, hold immense value as they safeguard groundbreaking inventions, encourage innovation, and drive economic growth. However, when it comes to crossing international boundaries, patent translation becomes an indispensable tool for effectively communicating ideas, ensuring…
In 2023, we celebrate the “can do” attitude of women inventors, creators and entrepreneurs around the world and their ground-breaking work. For generations, women have shaped our world with their ingenuity and creativity. Women everywhere are: – Driving scientific breakthroughs, – Setting new creative trends, – Building businesses and transforming our world. Women…
1. Minimum documents – 02 Declaration for registration which is typed according to form No. 03-KDCN Appendix A of Circular No. 01/2007/TT-BKHCN; – 01 copy of the industrial design description; [a description of the industrial design description must satisfy the general requirements specified at Points 33.5 of Circular No. 01/2007/TT-BKHCN and must contain the…
1. What is an industrial design? Industrial design means a specific appearance of a product embodied by three-dimensional configurations, lines, colors, or a combination of these elements. Products herein are understood to mean articles, tools, equipment, or parts used for assembling such products, manufactured by industrial or handicraft methods, with a structure and clear function,…
1. What is a trademark? According to the Vietnamese IP Law (amended in 2022): “Trademark means any sign used to distinguish goods or services of different organizations or individuals” How to register trademarks in Vietnam: 1. Minimum documents – 02 Declaration for registration which is typed according to form No. 04-NH Appendix A of Circular…
1. Procedure for amendment/ transfer of invention or utility solution applications 1.1 Procedure for amendment of the invention or utility solution applications -Before the IPVN issues decisions on the rejection of an application, decisions on refusal to grant a protection title or decisions on the grant of a protection title, the applicant may amend of…
1. Minimum documents – 02 Declaration for registration which are typed according to form No. 01-SC Appendix A of Circular No. 01/2007/TT-BKHCN; – 02 descriptions of the invention or utility solution; [a description of the invention or utility solution must satisfy the general requirements specified at Points 23.6 of Circular No. 01/2007/TT-BKHCN and must…
Globalization creates opportunities in the modern world. A company with success in its national market will likely expand abroad. The market is gigantic, but human creativity knows no boundaries, and we always invent new things. Nowadays, medicine is so advanced that new medicines are created on a daily basis. It is very similar in other…
A patent is an exclusive right granted for an invention. In other words, a patent is an exclusive right to a product or a process that generally provides a new way of doing something, or offers a new technical solution to a problem. To get a patent, technical information about the invention must be…
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