Improving Intellectual Property Law in Relation to Three-Dimensional Trademarks and Sound Trademarks

Abstract

With the development of the economy, society, science – technique and media, the scope of marks that can be recognized as trademarks in commerce has been increasingly expanded to both three-dimensional trademarks and sound marks. On the basis of referencing international laws and several countries and region’s practice of three-dimensional trademarks and sound marks, this article analyzes the provisions of Vietnamese law, especially the new provisions in the Law on amending and supplementing a number of provisions of the Law on Intellectual Property 2022 to propose recommendations to improve the law related to the protection of these two types of trademarks.