Vietnam Improves IP System
25 February 2014
On February 17, minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Vietnam Hoang Tuan Anh met general director of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) Francis Gurry, to discuss ways to promote cooperation between the two.
According to the Vietnam News Agency, Hoang and Gurry assessed the short-term and long-term cooperation plans, including assessing the compatibility of Vietnamese laws with international conventions, towards building and bettering laws on protecting copyright; assisting in raising public awareness of IPRs and Vietnam’s other related rights as well as building long-term development strategies on copyright.
Gurry said the country’s appreciation of the important role of the IP sector had contributed to its economic achievements. The cooperation between the Vietnamese Government and the WIPO had developed ceaselessly over the recent years, he said.
WIPO sent experts to Vietnam to help make the country’s IP law in 2005 and had organized workshops to help raise the capacity of its IP system.
Vietnam was for the first time elected for the Programme and Budget Committee of the WIPO for the 2013-2015 term at the General Assembly in Geneva in 2013.
