Co-authored by Minh Anh Truong
With another wave of the Covid-19 pandemic peaking in Vietnam,
the IP Office of Vietnam ("IP Vietnam")
once again has changed in its operations and issued new regulations
in July and August to facilitate the applicant/ IP Owner.
IP Vietnam has relaxed its formality requirements for
signatories
In July, IP Vietnam announced a relaxation of the formality
requirements to be met be signatories executing documents for
submission to the Authority. Notice No. 6959/TB-SHTT
("Notice 6959") has replaced Notice No.
13822/TB-SHTT (Notice 13822) issued on 23 November 2020.
The earlier Notice required that all documents such as powers of
attorney, agreements and declarations submitted to IP Vietnam must
be signed by a legal representative of the Applicant, such as the
Chairman, President or a Director. If such documents were signed by
an otherwise authorised representatives (for example the vice of
the above titles, empoyess holding other
