What are the main rules of thumb about fair use on the web?

The number one piece of advice: Assume it’s protected. I'll give you other tips below for you: Just because its online, doesn't mean that it’s public property. So many people have this false sense of entitlement to anything they see posted on social media "especially pictures". Copyright in Vietnam If someone complains, just remove the content for the time being. No, you don’t have to sell your soul to every troll on the Internet who...

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NOIP Starts to Accept Direct Filing at Office Post Covid-19’s Hold Off

Recently, National office of Intellectual Property in Vietnam (NOIP) has made a new notification on accepting the direct filing the industrial property application at head office of NOIP and its representative offices in Da Nang and Ho Chi Minh city. Based on the current situation of Covid 19, on April 23rd 2020, NOIP issued the Notification No. 5469/TB-SHTT. Accordingly, from April 24th 2020, NOIP would receive the industrial...

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What do you need to register a trademark?

What material is required to register a trademark? The two main things you need to register for a trademark are money and a little homework. The homework comes into play when selecting your mark. You need to first conduct a trademark search to assure it’s available for use. After doing the search, you need to ensure that you have a mark that can be protected in the first place. Not all marks are may be protected, for whatever reason,...

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How can I check if a quote is trademarked or copyrighted?

How do you determine if a short phrase is trademarked or copyrighted? You will want to conduct an extensive search. Sure, there are free and “easy to use” options, but keep in mind, IP searches are not as easy as you think. Phrases or quotes aren’t as common under copyright protection, but as other answers have indicated, it does happen. Most of your concern will center on your ability to coin the phrase so that you can sell products or services. Register...

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How are intellectual property rights (IPR) infringed?

Regarding intellectual property law, is copyright infringement theft? A person’s or company’s \intellectual property rights are infringed when someone else uses their intellectual property in ways that only the intellectual property owner has the right to do. Here is how the four types of intellectual property can be infringed: -Copyright is infringed when someone copies, records, publishes, distributes, publicly displays or performs,...

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Investor State Dispute Settlement between Foreign Investor and Host State under CPTPP Agreement and EVIPA Agreement

New-generation FTAs not only limit the field of goods and services but also expand regulation of scope of invesment. The majority of these FTAs include liberalization principles of investment and protection of investor through regulation on dispute settlement mechanism between investor and state (ISDS). The two agreements that have recently been paid attention to are the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreementfor Trans-Pacific Partnership...

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Complaints and Settlement of Complaints on Registration of Industrial Property

According to the regulations of law on complaint, complain means a citizen, agency, organization, cadre or civil servant requests a competent agency, organization or person to review an administrative decision or act of a state administrative agency or competent person in such agency when having grounds to believe that such decision or act is unlawful and infringes upon their rights and lawful interests. Whereby, the decision or notification of...

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How to Temporary Suspension Customs Clearance Procedures for Goods Subject to Intellectual Property Rights Protection?

The import and export of counterfeit goods or goods that violate intellectual property rights have been causing huge loss to the intellectual property rights owner.  The government’s process to control such will help utilize the resources in the society and encourage the innovative companies to invest in products in quality, designs, build trademarks… and ensure their intellectual property rights are protected and they could benefit from such....

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Vietnam Initiates the Investigation on Anti-dumping to Polyester Filament Yarns

On April 6 2020, Minister of Ministry of Trade and Industry (MOIT) signed the Decision 1079/QD-BCT on investigating and applying anti-dumping measures to someproducts made of polyester filament yarns originated from People’s Republic of China, Republic of India, Republic of Indonesia and Malaysia. Related parties may by themselves or authorize to experienced law firm in Vietnam on international trade to work with Trade Remedies...

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