"Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Intellectual Property Law – Noted issues"
To ensure that the contents of the Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Intellectual Property Law are properly implemented and put into practice, the National Office of Intellectual Property of Vietnam (Ministry of Science and Technology) is coordinating with agencies to organize disseminate the Law to relevant groups of subjects, and continue to develop detailed guiding documents.
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On August 16, the National Office of Intellectual Property of Vietnam (IP) held a workshop on "Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Intellectual Property Law – Noted issues."
Attending the workshop, there were nearly 200 delegates from ministries, sectors, state management agencies, central and local IPR enforcement agencies, research institutes, universities, associations, enterprises, industrial property representation service organizations, and etc.
Mr. Nguyen Van Bay, Deputy Director of the NOIP said that the IP Law, passed by the National Assembly in 2005, amended and supplemented in 2009 and 2019, is an important legal document regulating social relations related to a special type of property-intellectual property.
Through 16 years of practice, the IP Law has played a great role in creating an IP legal corridor, promoting the country's socio-economic development. However, in the new context, practical implementation along with Vietnam's extensive international integration shows that the IP Law still has certain obstacles and inadequacies.
Therefore, the IP Law has been proposed to be revised to institutionalize the guidelines and lines of the Party and the State's policies, overcome practical obstacles and inadequacies, and internalize commitments to be in line with the international law.
On June 16, 2022, at the 3rd session, the XV National Assembly voted to approve the Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Intellectual Property Law (Low No. 07/2022/QH15). It will take effect on January 1, 2023.
At the workshop, the Legal and Policy Division (NOIP) noted new points of the Law, focusing on major policy groups, such as Ensuring clear regulations on authors, copyright holders, and performers actors, related rights holders in cases of assignment or transfer of copyrights and rights related to copyrights;
encourage the creation, exploitation and dissemination of inventions, industrial designs, layout designs of semiconductor integrated circuits, and plant varieties created from scientific and technological tasks using the State budget; facilitate the process of carrying out procedures for copyright registration, procedures for establishing industrial property rights and etc. In particular, changes related to trademark protection regulations that businesses are concerned with first.
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