Strategy of intellectual property until 2030

This is one of the goals of the Intellectual Property Strategy until 2030 which has just been approved by the Prime Minister.

Another objective is to establish industrial property rights and rights to plant varieties to ensure quick, transparent, fair and timely response to requirements of enterprises and society. The enforcement of intellectual property law has been significantly improved, the situation of infringement of intellectual property rights decreased significantly.

In addition, the new intellectual property of Vietnamese individuals and organizations increased both in quantity and quality, dramatically improving Vietnam’s intellectual property indicators in the total innovation index. demand (GII): The number of applications for invention and patent protection increases an average of 16-18% / year; the number of industrial design registration applications increased by an average of 6 – 8% / year; the number of trademark applications increased by 8-10% per year on average; the number of applications for protection of plant varieties increased an average of 12-14% / year, of which the number of applications for protection in foreign countries; making Vietnam a center for plant variety protection with the establishment of an ASEAN + regional plant variety protection agency.

Effective use of intellectual property rights is enhanced and significantly increases the number of products with high intellectual property content. Specifically: Activities of exploitation and commercialization of intellectual property are focused and promoted, the proportion of inventions being exploited commercially reaches 8-10% of the patents granted protection titles; have at least 1-2 plant varieties exploited right abroad; a significant number of enterprises effectively using intellectual property tools in their production and business activities; developing a number of industries with high levels of intellectual property use, especially those with priority and competitive advantages, significantly increasing their contribution to GDP growth; geographical indications, genetic resources, traditional knowledge, technical secrets, folklore are protected and effectively exploited in production and business activities; developing cultural industries based on copyrights and related rights in order to create more and more diversified and high quality creative products; Striving to 2030, revenue of cultural industries based on copyright and related rights will contribute about 7% of GDP, creating more jobs for the society.

To accomplish the above objective, the Strategy outlines the tasks of perfecting policies and laws on intellectual property; improve the effectiveness and efficiency of state management of intellectual property; focus on promoting and improving the effectiveness of intellectual property rights enforcement; promote activities to create intellectual property; encourage and improve the efficiency of intellectual property exploitation; developing intellectual property support activities; strengthening human resources for intellectual property activities; forming a culture of intellectual property in society; actively, proactively cooperation and international integration on intellectual property.

Strictly handling violations of intellectual property rights

In particular, it is worth noting that the coordination between state administrative agencies with each other and with judicial agencies in protecting intellectual property rights; coordinate research on strengthening the role of courts in dealing with intellectual property cases. Strengthen inspection, control and strictly handle violations of intellectual property rights, especially infringements of intellectual property rights in the digital environment. Actively and proactively detect, prevent and fight against intellectual property crimes; improve the efficiency of investigating criminal cases of intellectual property. Encourage businesses, organizations and individuals to actively protect their intellectual property rights. Expand socialization in parallel with improving the quality of judicial assistance activities on intellectual property; developing a team of intellectual property assessors; promote the development of intellectual property assessment services and legal consultancy services on intellectual property protection.

Besides, building and implementing science and technology programs, supporting research institutes and universities to cooperate with enterprises in the direction of creating research results that are protected with intellectual property rights. In which, increasing the use of intellectual property tools to develop key industries and fields, products and services with competitive advantages, creating source technologies and core technologies.

Promote the creation of innovation centers in combination with venture capital investment forms to nurture intellectual properties from idea creation, research and development of intellectual properties to pilot production. , forming start-up businesses; assisting startups in perfecting technology, creating products and services with high added value. Effective implementation of mechanisms to encourage individuals to participate in the process of technological innovation and cultural creation. Guide businesses to create and effectively exploit trade guides for their products and services; Support for registration of protection of potential geographical indications.

Encourage and improve the efficiency of intellectual property exploitation

Establish and develop a network of centers for technology and intellectual property transfer at research institutes, universities and enterprises in order to promote the creation and exploitation of intellectual property. Establishing an innovative startup ecosystem in universities. Supporting research institutes and universities in establishing businesses to exploit intellectual property rights, shortening the process of applying research results to production and business.

Promoting the implementation of mechanisms and policies to develop industries with high levels of intellectual property use, creating prestigious and quality products, promoting the export of goods with intellectual property content wisdom. Develop a healthy intellectual property market in the direction of: Expanding and improving the quality of intermediary services to enhance the supply and demand connection of intellectual property; promote activities of assessment and evaluation of intellectual property as a basis for conducting transactions on the market …

Tue Van