Vietnam is ranked 52th out of 141 countries in this year’s Global Innovation Index (GII), up 19 places from last year, said the Ministry of Science and Technology.
Increasing coordination between ministries and Vietnamese representative offices in foreign countries is necessary to more effectively implement the country's external affairs policy.
Fifteen pieces of
inventions were honoured at a ceremony in Ho Chi Minh City on November
22, beating other 158 entries from 40 cities and provinces in a
four-month competition.
ASEAN member countries are moving forward with their initiatives to
accede to the Mardird Protocol by the end of 2015 as part of the ASEAN
Economic Community building.
The growing technical cooperation between Vietnam and the World
Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) has helped the country
establish regulations and technical facilities for the intellectual
property system.
Deputy Minister of Science and Technology Tran Van Tung is leading a
delegation to the 54th series of meetings of the Assemblies of the
Member States of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO),
which kicked off in Geneva, Switzerland on September 22.
The General Assembly of the World Intellectual Property Organisation
(WIPO) passed a vote to elect Vietnamese Ambassador Nguyen Trung Thanh,
Vietnam’s permanent representative to the United Nations, the World
Trade Organisation (WTO), and other international organisations, as the
new Chair of the WIPO Coordination Committee during its 54th session
on September 23.
There are numerous research & development (R&D) units in
Vietnam, but Vietnamese have few patent cooperation treaties (PCT)
registered at the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), the
English language news portal VietNamNet Bridge reported.
Although Vietnam’s intellectual property right registration abroad has
recently seen positive changes, the number of registration applications
handed to the National Office of Intellectual Property of Vietnam (NOIP)
each year remains too small, reported the Ministry of Industry and
Trade's Vietnam Economic News.
Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Hoang Tuan Anh had a meeting
with General Director of the World Intellectual Property Organisation
(WIPO) Francis Gurry on February 17 in Geneva to discuss ways to
promote future cooperation between the two sides.
A workshop was held in Hanoi on November 18-19 to discuss trademark
protection for exports and the effective use of the Madrid system to
protect intellectual property rights for Vietnamese exports in foreign
markets.
A Vietnamese delegation led by Director General of Vietnam’s National
Office of Intellectual Property Ta Quang Minh attended the 51st session
of the General Assembly of Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) in
Geneva.
Vietnam has been elected
for the first time to the Programme and Budget Committee of the World
Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) for the 2013-15 term, a
Vietnamese official has said.
A workshop aimed at equipping intellectual property managers, research
institutes, universities and relevant agencies with knowledge on
intellectual property assessment opened in Hanoi on June 5.
Vietnam backs the compulsory public release of information on
genetic resources and traditional knowledge on patents. It also agrees
with the introduction of mechanisms to allow public access to
information and enable the prosecution of offenders.
The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) has released its Global Innovation Index 2012 (GII), in which Vietnam was ranked 76th in innovation performance.
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XIII National Congress of Communist Party of Vietnam
