By Dang The Duc and Nguyen Thi Hong Anh*

Indochine Counsel is proud to be a contributor for the Vietnam Chapter "Vietnam - Improved IP rights enforcement: benefits for IP rights owners and business" on the IP Value 2010, a special publication of the Intellectual Asset Management Magazine. The chapter focuses on the changes in IPR enforcement in Vietnam as introduced under the Law on Amendments and Additions to the 2005 Intellectual Property Law (No. 36/2009/QH12) and the Law on Amendments and Additions to the 1999 Penal Code (No. 37/2009/QH12).

The Vietnamese legislation on the protection of IP rights is mainly contained in the Intellectual Property Law (November 29 2005). This law, along with other related laws such as the Civil Code 2005, the Penal Code 1999, the Competition Law 2004, the Customs Law 2001 and the Information Technology Law 2006, forms a clear legal framework for the protection and enforcement of IP rights in Vietnam. It is a framework that is seen by IP rights owners, IP practitioners and observers as compatible with international rules in the IP area.

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For the full Chapter, please download the PDF file. The Chapter is also uploaded at the the Intellectual Asset Management website - www.iam-magazine.com.

(*) Please contact the authors at duc.dang@indochinecounsel.com or anh.nguyen@indochinecounsel.com or one of our partners if you wish to have more information or specific advice for the topic of this article.