05 rights of organizations and individuals engaged in information technology industry activities in Vietnam

According to Clause 1 Article 15 of Decree No. 71/2007/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, organizations or individuals engaged in information technology industry activities have the following rights:

1. To participate in the research and development of information technology products;

2. To manufacture and supply information technology products;

3. To digitalize, maintain and increase the value of, information resources;

4. To register intellectual property rights to products and services which they create and the State protects in accordance with law,

5. To exercise other rights in accordance with law.

Concurrently, organizations and individuals engaged in information technology industry activities have the following responsibilities:

- To meet the prescribed conditions and comply with the provisions of the Law on Information Technology, the Investment Law, the Enterprise Law, the Law on Enterprise Income Tax, the Law on Intellectual Property, the Law on Technology Transfer and relevant laws;

- To ensure the truthfulness of research and development as well as manufacture results;

- By March 15 annually at the latest, information technology industry enterprises shall send reports on the previous year's situation of specialized information technology industry activities to provincial municipal Post andTelematics Services of their respective localities. The Ministry of Post andTelematics shall specify the contents of those reports.

View more details at Decree No. 71/2007/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, effective from June 08, 2007.

Ty Na

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