The enforcement of intellectual property rights (IPR) helps ensure fair competition between businesses and people in creating and exploiting intellectual property. To effectively protect IPR, IPR activities in the province have been gradually implemented, creating an environment that encourages innovation, contributing to making IPR a tool to promote economic, cultural and social development in the locality.
The product "Khe Sanh Coffee" is being registered for protection, management and development of geographical indications by Quang Tri province - Photo: HT
In recent times, the current system of policies and laws on intellectual property, especially the 2022 Intellectual Property Law, has created a legal corridor, encouraged creative activities, and protected the achievements of creative labor, which have been regularly implemented. Thereby, all levels, sectors, and many organizations and individuals in the province have initially recognized the meaning, importance, and interest in protecting intellectual property rights.
In 2024, the Department of Science and Technology will coordinate with the People's Committees of districts, towns and cities to organize 3 training courses on "Disseminating knowledge about intellectual property and policies to support the application and replication of scientific and technological results in the area".
The training courses disseminated new points of the 2022 Intellectual Property Law, methods of protecting, managing, and exploiting intellectual property rights for traditional specialty products and OCOP products. The Department coordinated with the Representative Office of the Intellectual Property Office in Da Nang City to organize a "Training conference on management, use and development of trademarks using geographical names" for management agencies, organizations, and units granted protection certificates for collective trademarks and certification trademarks in the province.
Organize a workshop on "Determining the list of products and types of protection to establish intellectual property rights for potential agricultural products of the locality" to gather opinions and unify the list of potential products of each locality, thereby building a database to help localities take the initiative in establishing intellectual property rights for each key product...
In addition, the Provincial People's Committee has also directed relevant departments, branches and localities to strengthen inspection of the management, use and development of trademarks using place names in the province.
At the same time, regularly provide consulting support in establishing, managing, exploiting and developing geographical indications, collective trademarks and certification trademarks for key products, specialties and strengths of the locality.
The work of supporting the establishment, management, exploitation and development of geographical indications, collective trademarks and certification trademarks for key products, specialties and strengths of the province has also achieved some positive results. Up to now, the whole province has registered for protection 2 geographical indications (pepper and Quang Tri green tea), 6 certification trademarks and 59 collective trademarks for typical and strong products of the localities.
On the other hand, the province is implementing the task of "Registering protection, management and development of geographical indications for the product "Khe Sanh Coffee" of Quang Tri province under the Intellectual Property Development Program until 2030. In 2024, Quang Tri province was granted 31 common trademarks and 1 industrial design exclusive patent by the Department of Intellectual Property.
Notably, the annual OCOP program has classified and recognized more than 141 OCOP products, most of which have been registered for intellectual property rights. In particular, the province has conducted an investigation to evaluate the effectiveness of goods and products that have been granted intellectual property protection certificates associated with geographical names in the province to find solutions to support management, exploitation and development.
In 2024, the province also supported the application and replication of scientific and technological results for 40 organizations and individuals in the area with a total budget of over 1.7 billion VND. Of which, there are 6 organizations and individuals in the field of technology application and innovation; 6 organizations and individuals in the field of intellectual property; 28 organizations and individuals in the field of standards, measurement and quality.
In addition to the achieved results, the development of intellectual property in the locality still has some limitations such as: the number of certificates of protection for plant varieties, copyrights and related rights is still low; the establishment of rights of subjects only focuses mainly on trademarks, while other subjects have not received much attention.
The awareness of respecting and protecting intellectual property rights of people and businesses has improved, however, the understanding of the whole society towards this issue is still limited. The situation of counterfeit goods and goods infringing intellectual property rights is becoming more and more common, with increasingly sophisticated scale and level...
In the coming time, Quang Tri province will continue to effectively implement Plan No. 155/KH-UBND dated August 3, 2022 of the Provincial People's Committee on implementing the Intellectual Property Development Program of Quang Tri province to 2030. Strengthen coordination between state administrative agencies with each other and with judicial agencies in protecting intellectual property rights. Build an interconnected intellectual property database system and synchronously connect between state management agencies.
At the same time, promote the establishment, management and development of intellectual property for specialty products, key products and services, specific to the locality and products associated with the OCOP program. Strengthen inspection, examination, control and strict handling of acts of infringement of intellectual property rights to protect the reputation and brand of protected geographical-related brands.
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Source: https://baoquangtri.vn/bao-ve-va-phat-trien-tai-san-tri-tue-191854.htm
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