Anti-Counterfeit Seminar Report (28th March 2014)

Anti-counterfeiting seminar with the theme “Application of technology solutions in enforcement of intellectual property rights in Vietnam” was held on the morning of 28th March 2014, which began at 8:30 AM and ended at 12:30 AM.

I. Participants

Total participants are 70 people, including 40 representatives from 30 enterprises in Hanoi.

I.1. The organizers:

– Inspectorate- MOST: Mr. Tran Minh Dung – Chief Inspector; Ms. Nguyen Nhu Quynh – Deputy Chief Inspector and others from Inspector Department – MOST.

– Komtek Corporation: Mr. Nguyen Hoang Ly – President; Mr. Nguyen Tuan Hoa – Senior Consultant; Mr. Truong Van Cai – Senior Consultant and 04 staff.

I.2. Guests:

– Office of MOST

– Hanoi Association of anti-counterfeiting and brand protection.

– Inspectorate of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism;

– Inspectorate of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development;

– Inspectorate of the Ministry of Information and Communications;

– Inspectorate of Hanoi department of Science and Technology.

– The Supreme People’s Court;

– Hanoi Department of Science and Technology.

– Economic Police Department, Ministry of Public Security.

– Anti-smuggling investigation Department – General Department of Customs.

– Market Surveillance Agency

– Hanoi police department

– Hanoi market surveillance department.

– International guests:

Mr. David Mill – Director of AntiCouterfeit Company in New Zealand;
Mr. Patrick Wong – Sale manager of OpSec Security in Asia
Mr. Tran Vu – Director of Konica Minolta Company Vietnam – 6dcp
Mr. Thomas Beurthey – Regional Development Director – Edenred.
Mr. Yoshinori Nagase – Senior Consultant of JICA – Japan.
I.3 Enterprises : Representatives and marketing, anti-counterfeiting department of more than 30 enterprises.
I.4. Other: Representatives of media, information technology (VTV, SCTV, ect.).

II. Content.

II.1. Mr. Tran Minh Dung – Inspector of MOST had a welcome guest speech.

II.2. Đại diện Viện Khoa học Xét xử – Tòa án Nhân dân Tối cao

Introduce some intellectual property rights enforcement issues at court: All levels resolve IPR dispute under the Civil Procedure Code and the IPR Law, difficulties in handling IPR disputes such as statistics, complicated nature, psychological fears and prolonged solution time. Representative of Judging science institute also emphasized the issues that need to be paid more attention, implemented to ensure IPR such as propagation and improvement of the system, the provisions of law; IPR information network setup between the relevant authorities as well as equipping and improving expertise on IPR for those who do legal work.

Reference: the Speech file.

II.3. Representative of Huong Giang JSC – Brand owner of Men’s Vodka.

Introduce the IPR implementation experience and IPR breakage forms in the market that have great influence on the brand Men’s Vodka. Huong Giang company has adopted a number of anti-counterfeiting and IPR protection technologies under the law, however it still exists some issues related to reliability and stability of the technology as well as lack of guidance, mechanisms to determine the breakage scale. In addition, frame of IPR violations are not strict enough to make anti-counterfeiting and IPR protection more difficult. Huong Giang Company hoped that through comments at the seminar, the authorities can complete the regulations and mechanisms for IPR enforcement.

Reference: the speech file.

II.4. Representative of OpSec Security

This is an American anti-counterfeiting solution company and OpSec introduced the technologies that are researched and developed based on the market development; information technology to authenticate genuine products through multiple channels of communication such as internet. Mobile, specialized equipment by combining multiple measures such as barcodes, 3D stamps, etc. The scope of application of OpSec technology are range from conventional products to administrative documents. Technology of OpSec protecs the brand comprehensively:

– Product Authentication

– Product monitoring

– Participating customers

– Online protecting

– Enforcement

Reference: the speech file

II.5. Anti-smuggling investigation Department – General Department of Customs.

Anti-smuggling investigation Department – General Department of Customs report about the anti-smuggling activities, trade fraud, violations of IPR at the border of Vietnam. According to Anti-smuggling investigation Department – General Department of Customs, although the Customs has applied technology through management of goods import and export such as VNACCS/VCIS system, database of IPR, information network to the subject of IPR and authorities, there is still a high number of violations in 2013 (22,012 violations and 75 prosecution cases.

Reference: the speech file

II.6. Representative of 6dcp – Konica Minolta Vietnam.

Introducing anti-counterfeiting technology trends and anti-counterfeiting technology of 6dcp. 6dcp encryption technology (military strength) encrypt data through barcodes, Radio Frequency Identification chip (RFID), smart chip to provide real-time full information about the product for customers through a mobile application, webcam or specialized equipment and can be applied to many types of products. In addition to providing product information authentication, 6dcp technology can be expanded to supply chain, sales programs and can be applied on many special products such as diamond, bullet with tiny printing size/carving (around 0.02mm).

Reference: the speech file

II.7. JICA representative

Introducing and analyzing the impacts of enforcement of IPR, the critical promoting factors to ensure that IPR is not only anti-counterfeiting technology but also the awareness of people. It is necessary to educate manufacturers, suppliers, clients to understand the IPR and set clear goals for themselves and the economy such as always having clear vision about the products and the market.

Reference: the speech file

II.8. Representative of AntiCounterfeit company.

Introducing the system, process to help businesses understand anti-counterfeiting technologies to prevent counterfeiting products for IPR enforcement easily and widely used. Technology of AntiCounterfeit applied multi-layers anti-counterfeit stamp that can identify the products according to ISO 12931 with full factors such as publicity, secret and forensic authentication for identification of products for customers as well as providing legal information in case of disputes. Because the application empowers customers to read authentication information so that it does not depend on any dedicated devices.

Reference: the speech file

III. Conclusion & report of the seminar.

Mr. Tran Minh Dung – Inspector of MOST made a speech:

On the basis of the law on Intellectual Property rights, the current situation and anti-counterfeiting technology for application and enforcement of IPR are summarized as below:

The authorities should add and complete more regulations as well as mechanisms.
Press agencies, media should provide more widely about law
Conduct full education about IPR to each business and individual.
There should be cooperation between the relevant authorities for enforcement of IPR more widely.
Each customer is also a factor to ensure the enforcement of IPR and technology.
IV. Participant status

Total participants: 70

V. Pictures of the seminar

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