Training course on intellectual property protection on local specialty

On June 13, 2014, the Department of Science and Technology of Quang Tri province in collaboration with the National Office of Intellectual Property (“NOIP”) held a training course on intellectual property protection on the local specialty goods for the local officers, the leaders of districts/cities and the Ref. from the traditional professional villages in the province.

The lecturers from the NOIP provided the participants with the basic knowledge of the laws on intellectual property, copyrights, plant variety protection, the management of collective, certification marks and geographical indication as well as the methods to protect local specialty goods.

Managing partner, Pham Vu Khanh Toan said that “the commonalities between certification marks, collective marks and geographical indications consisted of two respects, that were (i) the widely use of mark of business entities, e.g. for certification marks, all business entities met criteria such as characteristics of origin, materials, mode of production, mode of distribution, quality, accuracy, safety or other characteristics of goods or services bearing the certification mark could be used this mark; for collective marks were the members of the group (ii) the certification functions of certification marks, collective marks, geographical indications. In essence, all of three types of commercial indication had certification functions of a certain aspect. For certification marks, the function was shown very clearly. How about the others? The collective marks conveyed a message of goods or services bearing the marks which being originated from organizations and individuals that were members of the group and met certain standards, complied with the regulations of using collective marks.”

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