Along with legal services related to industrial property, VCCI – IP also represent clients for registration of Copyrights and Related Rights.
As a state party adhered to the Bern Convention and Rome Convention, Vietnam has adopted its IP legal system in conformity with these conventions. Although applying for registration is not compulsory procedure for claiming copyrights/related rights, it is practical and advisable to take this action as once copyrights/related rights is officially registered to a person, he shall not be obliged to prove his legal rights in a dispute.
Filing procedures for registration of copyrights/related rights
Layout-design of a semiconductor integrated circuit is a three-dimensional disposition of circuitry elements and interconnections of such elements in a semiconductor integrated circuit, which is in the form of an end-product or semi-manufactured product. A layout-design is eligible for protection in Vietnam if it is original and commercially novel.
The layout-design registration application should be filed within 2 years from the date such layout-design was commercially exploited for the first time anywhere in the world by the person who has the right to registration.
Filing and prosecution procedures for registration of Layout-design of a semiconductor integrated circuit
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A geographical indication is a sign used to indicate a product originating from a specific area, locality, region or country of which geographical conditions essentially attribute to reputation, quality or characteristics of the product.
Filing and prosecution procedures for registration of Geographical indications
As an object of intellectual property rights, plant variety protectable in Vietnam shall be a variety which is bred or discovered and developed, belonging to the List of species able to be protected by State issued by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, that variety is new, distinct, uniform, stable and has a proper denomination.
Filing and prosecution procedures for grant patent for plant variety
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Technology transfer and franchising is, among others, an effective manner of exploiting Intellectual Property Rights and considered as an essential means to help domestic enterprises entitled to legally use advanced and developed technologies from overseas those, as well as consumers in developing countries can enjoy product of international quality.
VCCI – IP provides services relating to technology transfer and franchising field comprising but not limited to the followings:
- Providing legal advices, negotiation for obtaining agreement of technology transfer/ franchising;
- Drafting agreement contract of technology transfer/ franchising;
- Preparing documents for request for approval and recordal of agreement contract of technology transfer/ franchising before state authorities;
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Beside services of legal advices and representing for IPRs, VCCI-IP also provide services in relation to fields of investment, business establishment, business registration as well as trade name registration.
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