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Few Vietnamese inventions registered internationally
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In the past ten years, Northeastern Asian countries have been emerging as new centres of invention, with increasing numbers of internationally registered inventions. Vietnam, meanwhile, has a very modest number of internationally registered inventions after over 30 years as a member of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO).
To improve the capability of the national intellectual property system, the National Office of Intellectual Property of VietNam – NOIP has strengthened cooperation with partners in the US, Japan, Switzerland and international organisations like the European Union and the European Patent Office (EPO) to work out and perfect the legal system on intellectual property, training officials in charge of intellectual property and providing knowledge on intellectual property for businesses.
The issuance of the Vietnam Intellectual Property Law, which has regulations on copyright, industrial property right and the protection of these rights, has created a firm ground for intellectual property activities in Vietnam.
Since the law took effect on July 1, 2006, the number of patent registration applications submitted to NOIP has soared, reflecting a positive trend in intellectual property activities and Vietnamese’s creativeness. However, there is a wide gap between the number of patent registration applications submitted by Vietnamese nationals and foreigners in Vietnam. In 2007, Vietnamese accounted for just 8% of the total applications submitted to NOIP.
Patent registration applications submitted to NOIP from 2000-2007
|
Year |
Vietnamese |
Foreigners |
Total |
|
2000 |
34 |
1205 |
1239 |
|
2001 |
52 |
1234 |
1286 |
|
2002 |
69 |
1142 |
1211 |
|
2003 |
78 |
1072 |
1150 |
|
2004 |
103 |
1328 |
1431 |
|
2005 |
180 |
1767 |
1947 |
|
2006 |
196 |
1970 |
2166 |
|
2007 |
219 |
2641 |
2860 |
(Source: NOIP)
It is notable that the number of Vietnam’s internationally registered patent cooperation treaty (PCT) applications didn’t increase in the 2000-2007 period.
In this period, Singapore always took the lead among Southeast Asian countries for PCT. According to WIPO, the total PCT of Singapore is 2,504, Malaysia 264, Philippine 116, Thailand 53 and only 26 for Vietnam.
WIPO’s reports show that since 2002, the number of PCT of Northeastern Asian countries, especially South Korea and China, has increased highly. These two countries and Japan are in the top ten nations with the highest numbers of PCT registered.
According to WIPO, the number of PCT shows the ability of integration of a nation in global industrial activities. Vietnam, with such a small number of PCT, doesn’t really enter the circle of world industry.
PCT applications by some Northeast Asian and Southeast Asian countries from 2002-2007:
|
Country |
2002 |
2003 |
2004 |
2005 |
2006 |
2007 |
|
Japan |
14,063 |
17,414 |
20,264 |
24,869 |
27,033 |
27,731 |
|
South Korea |
2,520 |
2,949 |
3,558 |
4,688 |
5,944 |
7,061 |
|
China |
1,018 |
1,295 |
1,706 |
2,503 |
3,951 |
5,456 |
|
Singapore |
330 |
282 |
431 |
443 |
476 |
542 |
|
Malaysia |
18 |
- |
45 |
38 |
60 |
103 |
|
Philippine |
20 |
21 |
11 |
26 |
23 |
15 |
|
Thailand |
9 |
7 |
12 |
9 |
11 |
5 |
|
Indonesia |
16 |
2 |
6 |
8 |
8 |
9 |
|
Vietnam |
2 |
7 |
2 |
- |
10 |
5 |
(Source: WIPO)
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The Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) is an international patent law treaty, concluded in 1970. It provides a unified procedure for filing patent applications to protect inventions in each of its Contracting States. A patent application filed under the PCT is called an international application or PCT application. A single filing of an international application is made with a Receiving Office (RO) in one language. It then results in a search performed by an International Searching Authority (ISA), accompanied with a written opinion regarding the patentability of the invention which is the subject of the application. It is optionally followed by a preliminary examination, performed by an International Preliminary Examining Authority (IPEA). Finally, the examination (if provided by national law) and grant procedures are handled by the relevant national or regional authorities. The PCT does not lead to the grant of an "international patent", which does not exist. The Patent Cooperation Treaty was signed in Washington at the very end of the conference, i.e., on June 19, 1970. The Treaty entered into force on January 21, 1978 initially with 18 Contracting States. The first international applications were filed on June 1, 1978. The Treaty was subsequently amended in 1979, and modified in 1984 and 2001. Any Contracting State to the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property can become a member of the PCT. A majority of the world’s countries are signatories to the PCT, including all of the major industrialised countries (with a few exceptions, including Argentina and Taiwan). As of April 3, 2008, there were 139 Contracting States to the PCT - Wikipedia |
Source: VietnamNet
