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Protection of the exterior appearance of a product — shape, lines, colours, and texture.
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Visible sign which serves to distinguish products or services of one enterprise from others.
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Intellectual property protection granted to authors of original literary and artistic works.
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Learn more →From 1 April 2026, Vietnam’s Law Amending the Intellectual Property Law (the Amending IP Law”), and its guiding regulations came into effect with the substantive change on grace period for novelty of industrial design (ID). Particularly, the grace period for novelty of industrial designs has been expanded to cover more circumstances than previously.
Vietnam’s amendment of the Intellectual Property Law (IP Law) and its guiding regulations extended protection of industrial design to partial designs and designs of non-physical products, effective from 1 April 2026, by the amended definition of an industrial design, particularly “an industrial design refers to the external appearance of all or part of a product, in physical or non-physical form, expressed in shape, lines, colors, or a combination of these elements, and visible in the process of exploiting the product's use”. Below is a summary of the updated regulations regarding partial designs and designs of non-physical products.