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On June 27, 2019 in Hanoi the NOIP held a training course for officials in charge of intellectual property under the Network of Technology and Innovation Support Centers and Intellectual Property Centers (TISC & IP-HUB) in universities, research institutes and businesses...

Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Tuan Anh had directed all relevant units in the Ministry to conduct a specific investigation of the case of Asanzo suspected selling imported Chinese products under guise of  Vietnamese goods.

Draft Law amending and supplementing the Law on Insurance Business and the Law on Intellectual Property was passed with 100% votes...

WASHINGTON – Vietnamese officials say China is intentionally mislabeling its products as "made in Vietnam" to avoid American tariffs...

The National Office of Intellectual Property of Vietnam (NOIP) and the Korea Intellectual Property Agency (KIPO) agreed to implement the Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) program  for patent applications in 02 years from June 1, 2019 to 31 / 5/2021.

In the implementation of the 2019 working program, the Copyright Office of Vietnam (COV) held a conference to assess the activities of collective representation of copyright and related rights on 23 and 24/5/2019 in Hanoi.

Recently, in April 2019, the National Assembly Standing Committee (NASC) of  Vietnam has issued Resolution 684 to add the draft law revising the insurance and intellectual property laws into the 2019 law- and ordinance-making program.

The National Office of Intellectual Property (NOIP)  and the Japanese Patent Office (JPO) will continue PPH pilot program (PPH Program) Phase 2 in 3 years from April 1, 2019 to 31/3/2022 after completing the pilot implementation of PPH Program Phase 1 (April 1, 2016 - March 31, 2019).

On March 15, 2019, the Vietnam Intellectual Property Research Institute (VIPRI) in collaboration with the Japan Trade Promotion Organization (JETRO) and the Southeast Asia Intellectual Property Network on Japanese Trade and Industry (SEAIPJ) organized a workshop on "Assessing elements of patent  infringement".

The Vietnamese version of the Nice Classification 11th Edition - Version 2018 (NCL 11-2018) has been applied to the classification of goods and services for trademark registrations in Vietnam since January 01, 2018.

The Annual Report 2017 of NOIP, published in October 2018, showed that in this year 1.318 appeal requests against its decisions on refusal on granting IP protection titles were received,  of which only 730 ( 55% of the total) were considered valid and accepted for settlement by the NOIP...

By November 30, 2018, the NOIP has received 98,347 applications of all kinds (up 5.5% compared with the same period in 2017), of which were 57,939 applications for IP rights registration (up 8.2% compared with 2017); the patent applications for invention and utility solution increased by 16.9% and 55.6%, respectively.