IP Crime in Vietnam: When an Infringement of Trademark or Geographical Indication May Become a Crime

To implement its international commitments in the TRIPs and CPTPP[1] on criminal handling of trademark counterfeiting and copyright piracy, Vietnam identified some acts of infringement of copyright (authors’ rights), neighboring rights (related rights), and a number of acts of infringement of industrial property rights are IP crime, particularly Section 225 - crime of infringement of copyright, related rights, and Section 226 - crime of infringement of industrial property rights in the 2015 Penal Code as revised in 2017 (“Penal Code”), Bross & Partners below explains the basic legal signs constituting a Section 226 offence.