Partial summing-up of the Program to support intellectual asset development during 2011 - 2015

On 9 October 2013, in Ha Tinh province, the National Office of Intellectual Property of Vietnam (NOIP) – Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST) in coordination with Ha Tinh Department of Science and Technology organized a Conference partially summing up the 3-year implementation of the Program to support intellectual asset development during 2011 – 2015 (the Program) and setting forth directions for building and developing the Program during 2016-2020.

The Conference was attended by the Deputy Prime Minister of Science and Technology - Mr. Tran Quoc Khanh, the General Director of the NOIP - Mr. Ta Quang Minh, the Director of the Department of Science and Technology – Mr. Do Van Khoa, the representatives of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development… and offices, departments, sectors nationwide.

Deputy Prime Minister Tran Quoc Khanh was delivering his opening speech

In the Conference, Mr. Tran Quoc Khanh said that for nearly 3 years of the Program, thanks to the assiduous attempts of the MoST, other ministries, departments, sectors and the active participation of localities, the Program had achieved noteworthy results, bringing about a new trend, namely to use intellectual property as an effective tool to develop socio-economy. The implemented projects of the Program had exerted positive impacts on the community, localities and enterprises, thereby contributing to the enhanced effectiveness of the intellectual property system in Vietnam.

This was a celebration-worthy signal proving the interest of the related ministries, departments, sectors, units in the Program, and simultaneously asserted the role of the Program as support to establish, manage, exploit, protect and develop intellectual assets – emphasized the Deputy Prime Minister.

Also in the Conference, the NOIP’s General Director Ta Quang Minh said that the Program had been approved under Decision No. 2204/QĐ-TTg dated 6 December 2010 of the Government Prime Minister aiming at: continuing to enhance the individual, organization awareness of intellectual property protection; taking part in enhancing the competitiveness of Vietnamese products, services.

Panorama of the Conference

In the Conference, most of the delegates assumed that it would be necessary to maintain more synchronous and closer coordination among the concerned departments, sectors in organizing and implementing the Program, wherein priority should be given to solutions to further strengthen  the support of invention utilization, the exploitation of intellectual property information and to guarantee the enforcement of intellectual property rights; to allow the continued direct assignment to responsible units of intellectual property-specific projects,…

Also on the side of the Conference, the delegates took an occasion to visit exhibition stands of the products registered as geographical indications of nationwide offices, departments, sectors.

Delegates were visiting the products exhibited in the Conference

To conclude the Conference, Deputy Prime Minister Tran Quoc Khanh highly appreciated the achievements of the Program over the last time; however, he also noted that the NOIP would need to research into and define matters, objects to be focused on in the coming time such as: assistance to foreign inventions not protected in Vietnam; activities of R&D, manufacture and business; minimized exploitation of patent information for the sake of manufacture and business activities,… Additionally, the enhanced coordination among the concerned organs of the MoST, the Ministry of Finance, local science and technology departments… would be maintained to boost the implementation of the projects in accordance with the committed progress. A full report for summing up the Program would also be prepared and performed by the end of 2015. This would act as a basis for making a proposal to the Prime Minister for further implementation of the Program in the next period.

(Pham & Associates)