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World Intellectual Property Day 2024: IP and the SDGs: Building our common future with innovation and creativity

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…

The Vital Importance of Patent Translation in a Globalized World of Innovation

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…

Happy World Intellectual Property Day, April 26

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…

Registration Procedure for Industrial Designs

  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…

What is an Industrial Design?

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,…

Registration Procedure for Trademarks in Vietnam

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…

Procedures for Amendment/Transfer of Applications in Vietnamse Phase

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…

Filing a Patent Application into Vietnamese Phase

  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…