Intellectual property rights are ownership rights to intellectual property, including (1) industrial property rights, (2) copyright and rights related to the author and (3) rights to plant varieties.

Industrial property rights are the rights of organizations and individuals to inventions, industrial designs, semiconductor integrated circuit layout designs, trademarks, geographical indications, trade names, trade secrets that they create or own and the right to prevent unfair competition.

Copyright Copyright is the ownership of an organization or individual to works that they create or own. Copyright-related rights are the rights of organizations and individuals to performances, sound recordings, video recordings, broadcast programs, and satellite signals carrying encrypted programs.

Rights to plant varieties are the rights of organizations and individuals to new plant varieties that they choose to create or discover and develop or enjoy ownership rights to.

What is trademark and logo registration? In fact, this issue is not too difficult to answer. Trademark registration is the recognition of a particular owner’s trademark. Once the registration is confirmed, the trademark will be recorded in the national register. After that, a trademark registration certificate will be issued. In which all registration procedures are recorded by the competent state agency.

Or to put it more simply, trademark registration is copyright registration. Organizations, businesses, … need certification from state agencies about design trademarks. From there, other organizations and businesses cannot counterfeit or steal trademarks.

Basically, the concept of what is patent registration in English or what is patent registration has many explanations. Accordingly, depending on each specific invention, the words used by experts will be different. For example, software patent registration will be different from industrial or song copyright, etc.

However, the general overview of the concept of patent registration is not complicated. On the contrary, you can simply understand it as a form of intellectual property. Registration is carried out according to a standard process. It includes a set of exclusive rights of the inventor in using the product they create. In particular, the exclusive rights of the patent owner are protected by a state.

Usually, if an individual or organization registers a patent, it will be protected for 20 years. The time will be calculated from the date the inventor’s application for registration is submitted to the competent authority as valid.

In fact, registering an industrial design is registering the right to use. For example, registering a trademark copyright of a business or company. This is an administrative procedure conducted and confirmed by the National Office of Intellectual Property. In other words, the owner of the product must submit an application for copyright registration to protect the design.

Once a protection certificate is granted, the owner has the right to use that design in Vietnam. The longest time to register for protection of an industrial design is about 15 years. The official protection period is 5 years and each renewal will be an additional 5 years.

A Certificate of Trademark Registration is called a protection certificate. It is an important legal document to protect the legal status of the trademark owner. According to regulations, a Certificate of Trademark Registration is valid from the date of issue until the end of 10 years from the date of filing the application.

According to current regulations, in accordance with the State management function and the adjudication function, the following agencies have the function of protecting industrial property rights through inspection, examination, control and adjudication activities. The authority to apply administrative measures of the violation handling agency is specifically stipulated as follows:

1. The Science and Technology Inspection Agency at all levels has the authority to protect industrial property rights by administrative measures through sanctioning administrative violations and acts of infringement of industrial property rights occurring in production, business, exploitation, advertising, and circulation activities, except for acts occurring in the export and import of goods.

2. The Market Management Agency at all levels has the authority to handle violations of industrial property occurring in the circulation of goods and commercial business on the market.

3. The Customs Agency at all levels has the authority to handle violations of industrial property occurring in the import of goods.

4. The competent police agencies at all levels shall detect, verify, collect information and evidence of industrial property violations and provide them to competent agencies to handle violations and sanction industrial property violations.

5. Provincial and district People’s Committees have the authority to handle violations of industrial property rights occurring in the locality where the fine, form of penalty, and handling measures applied to such violations exceed the authority of other competent authorities.