| MINISTRY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ------- | SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM Independence – Freedom – Happiness --------- |
| No.: 13/2010/TT-BKHCN | Hanoi, July 30, 2010 |
CIRCULAR
ON AMENDING AND SUPPLEMENTING A NUMBER OF PROVISIONS OF THE CIRCULAR NO.17/2009/TT-BKHCN OF JUNE 18, 2009 AND THE CIRCULAR NO.01/2007/TT-BKHCN OF FEBRUARY 14, 2007
Pursuant to the Government’s Decree No.28/2008/ND-CP of March 14, 2008 on regulating functions, tasks, powers and organizational structure of the Ministry of Science and Technology;
Pursuant to the Government’s Resolution No.25/NQ-CP of June 02, 2010 on simplifying 258 administrative procedures under the management authorities of Ministries and branches;
Pursuant to the Law on product and goods quality of November 21, 2007 and the Government’s Decree No. 132/2008/ND-CP of December 31, 2008, detailing the implementation of a number of articles of the Law on product and goods quality;
Pursuant to the Law on Intellectual Property of November 29, 2005, the Law on amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Intellectual Property of June 19, 2009 (hereinafter referred to as the Law on Intellectual Property) and the Government’s Decree No. 103/2006/ND-CP of September 22, 2006 detailing and guiding the implementation of a number of articles of the Law on Intellectual Property regarding industrial property;
The Minister of Science and Technology amends, supplements a number of provisions of the Circular No. 17/2009/TT-BKHCN of June 18, 2009 guiding the state quality inspection of imported goods under the management responsibility of the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Circular no. 01/2007/TT-BKHCN of February 14, 2007 guiding the implementation of the Government’s Decree No. 103/2006/ND-CP of September 22, 2006 detailing and guiding the implementation of a number of articles of the Law on Intellectual Property regarding industrial property as follows:
Article 1. To amend, supplement Clause 3, Article 6 of Circular No.17/2009/TT-BKHCN as follows:
“3. Copies of quality certificates (present originals for comparison, unless the copies have been authenticated)
Article 2. To amend, supplement a number of points of Circular No. 01/2007/TT-BKHCN as follows
1. To amend, supplement point 56, 57 and 58 of Circular No. 01/2007/TT-BKHCN as follows:
“56. Recording of industrial property representatives
56.1. To be officially granted to implement business, practice rights of industrial property representation service, organizations, individuals who are eligible for business, practice shall carry out procedures for being recorded in the national register of industrial property representation specified in compliance with provisions in Clause 1 Article 156 of the Law on Intellectual Property, as stipulated in this point and shall pay fee as prescribed.
56.2. A dossier of request for recording of an industrial property representation service organization in the national register of industrial property representation by an organization that meets the conditions stipulated in Article 154 of the Law on Intellectual Property undersigns, comprises 01 dossier of documents as follows:
a) 02 copies of the written declaration of requesting recording of an industrial property representation service organization, made in accordance with form 03-YCGN stipulated in the Annex E of this Circular, in which filling fully information of the organization and information of the representative of that organization possessing practice certificate:
