Can Law Practice Organizations Engage in Industrial Property Representation Services?

Clause 17 Article 1 of the Amended Intellectual Property Law 2009 stipulates:

Organizations meeting the following conditions are eligible to conduct industrial property representation services under the name of an industrial property representation service organization:

1. Being an enterprise, cooperative, law-practicing organization, or science and technology service organization established and operating in accordance with the law, except for foreign law-practicing organizations practicing in Vietnam;

2. Having the function of industrial property representation services recorded in the Certificate of Business Registration, Certificate of Operation Registration (hereinafter collectively referred to as the Certificate of Business Registration);

3. The head of the organization or the person authorized by the head of the organization must meet the conditions for practicing industrial property representation services stipulated in Clause 1 Article 155 of this Law.

Thus, law-practicing organizations established and operating in accordance with the law (except for foreign law-practicing organizations practicing in Vietnam) are eligible to conduct industrial property representation services under the name of an industrial property representation service organization.

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