Temporary residence card for foreigner in Vietnam

If the foreign investor, the employee needs to reside in Vietnam to be able to facilitate the implementation of investment, labor contract, the investor and the employee needs to have the company sponsored and proceed to apply Temporary residence card in accordance with the purpose of residence in Vietnam. Temporary residence card is a document issued by an immigration authority or a competent authority of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs...

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What are the limits as to what can be trademarked?

There are certain limits to get a trademark registration. Here we can understand that what can be a trademark or what can’t be a trademark. First of all you should remember that, if a brand name is not a part of trading than the word can’t be a trademark, it means the trading is the compulsory to get a trademark to be registered. In a simple words we can say; Trademark protection in Vietnam  -A trademark can be a name, symbol,...

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Vietnam and Japan Signed 12 Cooperation Agreements

The Secretary General of Liberal Democratic Party of Japan, the President of Japan – Vietnam Friendship Parliamentary Union- Nikai Toshihiro, on January 12th, 2020 met with the Vietnam’s Prime Minister- Mr. Nguyen Xuan Phuc in Hoi An to discuss economic, cultural and tourist exchange topics. At the meeting, the representative of Vietnam welcomed the Japanese delegation to come and exchange of economic, cultural and tourism exchanges of the...

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M&A Foreign Capital Dominates, Pouring into Education

Foreign investors are interested and want to invest in Vietnam education market. Foreign direct investment (FDI) into education sector from August 2018 – the time when Decree 86/2018/ND-CP takes effect – reached 97 million USD in October 2019, of which M&A activities, in particular buying shares in education sector accounted for 37%. This figure shows that foreign investors are more interested in a more collaborative strategy...

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What cannot be registered as trademark?

A trademark has to have one basic feature that is it should be unique and create a brand identity for a product. So if a trademark is such that does not create any brand for a product can't be trademarked. A trademark should not be a conflicting trademarks with others. It means the trademarks should not create confusion between two trademarks. In general, Trademark protection in Vietnam  -Generic words can't be trademarked....

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Which area of business foreign investors could invest in Vietnam?

Recently, Vietnam has been an attractive investment destination to foreign investors thanks to the social-economic innovation policy from the early 80s of the twentieth century to the present. The economic, political and social situation always keeps stability and achieves remarkable developments, establishing trade relations with most countries in the world. Especially, Vietnam Government has been focusing efforts to improve the investment and...

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M&A Legal Services in Vietnam

Business and legal issues today are intertwined as never before. The increasing globalisation of competition, the rise of emerging markets including Vietnam, the persistence of volatility, and the sharp increase in global regulatory scrutiny are some of the many factors that have led to an increase in strategic transactional activity—including acquisitions, disposals, mergers, strategic alliances, restructurings, spinoffs, IPOs, and joint ventures...

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What is the advantages and the disadvantages of licensing contract?

Licensing of industrial property rights (Licensing) is one of the legal measures to transfer technology. In accordance with Law on Intellectual property in 2005 (amended, supplemented in 2009), licensing of an industrial property rights means permission by the owner of such industrial property object for another organization or individual to use the industrial property object within the scope of the owner's right. Licensing...

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Procedures for processing applications for registration of industrial designs

Many enterprises invest a significant amount of time and resources to improve their product design in order to match products to specific customer groups. Industrial design means the outward appearance of a product embodied in three dimensional configuration, lines, colours or a combination of such elements [Clause 13 Article 4 Law on intellectual property 2005 (IP law)] and industrial design is under industrial property...

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Danang city Meeting the First Korean Consul General in Central Region

On December 16th, 2019, Danang City held a meeting with the new Korean Consul General Mr. Ahn Min Sik, the first Korean consul general in Central Region of Vietnam. Currently, Danang is a city that attracts a large number of Korean people to travel, live and invest to set up company. Therefore, the establishment of the Korean General Consulate in Danang is an opportunity to further expand the friendly relationship between the two...

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