The anti-smuggling, trade fraud and anti-drug work in the first six months of the Customs sector has achieved many important results and many violations have been prosecuted. The shipment of herbal medicines importing from China “camouflaged” as agricultural products was seized by Customs forces in Tien Sa port (Da Nang)...
A trademark-based domain name dispute heard by Court in Vietnam. What should foreign businesses know? Background: O.S GmbH is a multinational lighting manufacturer headquartered in Munich, Germany (“the plaintiff”). The plaintiff is the owner of a series of OSRAM trademarks for lighting apparatus in Vietnam, particularly electric lamps and luminaires;...
Court of Appeals announces painter Lê Linh possesses rights to comic characters (IP) – The HCM City People’s Court has kept the decision by the court of the first instance earlier this year that painter Lê Phong Linh (pen name Lê Linh) is to be the only author of four...
