On November 30, 2023, the Ministry of Science and Technology promulgated Circular 23/2023/TT-BKHCN guiding the Law on Intellectual Property (IP Law) and Decree 65/2023/ND-CP guiding the IP Law on industrial property, protection of industrial property rights, and rights to plant varieties and State management of intellectual property related to the procedures for establishing industrial property rights and ensuring industrial property information (Circular 23). Circular 23 contains several notable contents for enterprises as follows:
(i) Specifying cases in which the industrial property applications are invalid;
(ii) Adjusting on some deadlines in the procedures of opposing industrial property applications;
(iii) Supplementing the regulations on translating documents attached with opposition petitions into Vietnamese;
(iv) Specifying the “bad faith” element when filing a trademark registration application.
