Challenges in Preparing Documents for Representative Office Application

The representative office (RO) is a popular foreign investment vehicle which investors utilize when wishing to enter the Vietnamese market without committing too much investment.  The representative office could help the foreign entity to hire local employee to carry out market research, business promotion. A foreign company wishes to establish a representative office in Vietnam must submit an application dossier for a license...

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Can you copyright your name?

That does not serve a public interest, so no, copyright law does not support that. Consider: copyrighting names would mean that people that are charged with ethical violations, crimes, or just dirty play could not be discussed in the news. Exxon, for instance, could just copyright their name and then prohibit any news media from discussing them by name. Copyright only protects “creative works”, such as books, news articles, TV...

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Contract Dispute in Vietnam

Disputes in contract performance and solutions Disputes occur during contract performance are beyond the control of the entity entering contractual relations. In developed countries, lawyers always invited to advise customers to identify potential disputes, and provide solutions, support and provide legal advice and to accompany the enterprises solve disputes in accordance with the provisions of the law, which help businesses to focus on its business...

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How feasible is it to get a patent without an attorney?

How feasible is it to get a patent without an attorney (it is relatively advanced and there are few attorneys with acceptable knowledge)? You can read some literature (like Patent It Yourself by Pressman) and have a reasonable shot at preparing a document that, ultimately, will become a patent. The question you didn’t ask is what the value of that patent is. I hate to sound elitist, but without an attorney steering the ship from the beginning,...

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What is the first patent in America? And the patent number?

First patent issued by U.S.: First U.S. Patent Issued Today in 1790, issued in 1790. They didn’t start using numbers until 1836, when Patent #1 was issued on July 13, 1836: Another 108 patents issued in 1836. Patent #1 was issued to Senator John Ruggles, who happened to be chairman of the Senate Committee on Patents. While there, he put through a bill to reorganize the Patent Office, presumably knowing that one part of the bill would...

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What Goods Allowed to Be Imported into Vietnam?

What Goods Allowed to Be Imported into Vietnam? Foreign ownedcompanies in Vietnam wishing to import and distribute physical goods into Vietnam must comply with many regulations. It is imperative that the right to conduct import business of foreign investors and FDI companies differ from the right of Vietnamese traders having no foreign direct investment capital because trading activities are considered conditional investment area. 1.      General...

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Effectiveness of a Lawsuit against Infringement of IP in Vietnam

Should IP holders handle with the infringement through litigation? How to handle effectively with infringement is a big concern of Intellectual Property (IP) holders. Should the IP holder file a lawsuit at Court? Is this way effective in Vietnam?  This article will give you general information about handling of intellectualproperty disputes through legal action at court in Vietnam. Unlike many countries in the world, in case of...

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Dispute Resolution Through Arbitration

Dispute resolution methods are litigation, negotiation, mediation and arbitration. Handing disputes requires litigation law firm with dispute lawyers in Vietnam having experience and knowledge to provide resolutions to complex cross-border issues, commercial and civil disputes. In the current business environment, most business agreements could contain a clause stipulating that disputes arisen must be resolved in arbitration....

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How hard is it to invalidate a patent?

The common fallacy that may be the impetus of your question is that patents are easy to get. They’re not—I’ve seen inventors spend a decade and hundreds of thousands of dollars getting one. So to invalidate someone’s life’s work will take you more than a casual search on Google. :) What you see in the other answers is that it’s generally very difficult to invalidate a patent, and often very expensive, precisely because you basically have to...

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Unemployment Insurance for Employee Unilaterally Terminating Labor Contract

Unemployment insurance is a measure to assist workers in a market economy. In addition to providing financial support to stabilize the lives of employees during the period of unemployment, the main purpose of unemployment insurance is to help the unemployed to find a suitable and stable job, through vocational training, counseling and job referral. When the labor contract is unilaterally terminated by the employee, the employee does not need to...

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