What Activities Being Allowed Under Social Isolation in Vietnam in Directive No. 16?

On Mar 31st, 2020, the Vietnam Prime Minister has issued a directive on social isolation to implement some urgent measures to prevent and control Covid-19 epidemic.  There have not such incidents in the past therefore it is unclear on enforcement in legal implementation.  In our opinions, this directive is more about suggested voluntary actions of each individual. In summary, according to the directive, social isolation is applied...

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What Are Legal Requirements of Patent Description?

When patent owner registers for their patent, one of the most important documents included in the dossiers is the patent’s description. Patent is a technical solution in the form of a product or process which is intended to solve a problem by application of natural laws. Patent description is very important which is aimed to reveal the nature of a patent for examiner to consider its ability if satisfying the protected conditions. Specifically, patent...

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Assignment of International Trademark Registration

In the progress of world integration, goods trading activities between countries and regions are becoming more and more developed, then the matters related to intellectual property is gradually being focused. Assignment of International Trademark Registration The individuals and organizations are aware of the benefit of registration the intellectual property subjects. In particular, they registered internationally for their trademark...

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How to Dealing with Trademark Infringement

According to Vietnam law on intellectual property, when detecting the trademark infringement act, the trademark owner has the self-protection right includes (i) apply technological measures to prevent acts of trademark infringement (ii) request organization or individual who commits an act of trademark infringement of the holder to terminate such act, make a public apology or rectification, and compensate damages; (iii) request the competent...

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What Conditions to File Divorce Petition?

Divorce means termination of the husband and wife relation under a court’s legally effective judgment or decision. What is the condition of divorce? Firstly, we need to know about subjects being entitled to request divorce settlement. That is husband or wife or both having the right to request divorce settlement from a Court; a parent or other relatives has the right to request divorce settlement from a Court when the spouse is unable to perceive and...

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Guidance on Unilateral Divorce Procedure

Divorce is the termination of husband and wife relationship according to the court’s legally effective judgment or decision. Divorce procedures are prescribed in the Civil Procedure Code, Law on Marriage and Family, Law on Mediation at grassroots… There are two forms of divorce in Vietnam: divorce at the request of one party (unilateral divorce) and divorce by mutual consent. For divorce at the request of one party, the Court shall handle...

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Mar 2020 Color steel sheet product importing into Vietnam Update on Cases SG05 and AD04

Relates to two cases which are application safeguard measure and applicationanti-dumping (AD) measure with respective case number of SG05 and AD04 which our anti competition lawyers at international trade practice of ANT Lawyers are following up. Regarding application safeguard measure with case number of SG05, on May 31st, 2017, Ministry of Industry and Trade promulgated Decision 1931/QD-BCT on application safeguard measure on color steel sheet...

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Importants Matters to Consider in M&A Contract

Before carrying out merger or acquisition (M&A), enterprises need to research carefully regulations of law to protect their rights and interests. Regulations on each aspect of M&A activities are referred to in various legal documents such as Law on Enterprises, Commercial Law, Competition law, Law on Investment, Civil Code … When carrying out M&A, enterprises should also pay attention to some basic terms in the contract. The M&A...

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