(DTO) – In latest years, Dong Thap Province has centered on implementing a variety of measures to help the event of mental property (IP) belongings for companies, cooperatives, and native residents. Beyond model constructing and the registration of emblems or geographical indications, IP improvement has helped improve the worth of agricultural merchandise, enhance competitiveness, and increase market alternatives for native merchandise.
STEPPING UP SUPPORT FOR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT
In the context of more and more deep financial integration, mental property is taken into account one of many key elements serving to companies and manufacturing and buying and selling institutions strengthen their place out there.
For this purpose, Dong Thap has actively promoted actions that generate mental property belongings, regularly laying the inspiration for enhancing the worth of native merchandise.
Alongside communication and awareness-raising efforts on mental property rights, the province has positioned specific emphasis on guiding organizations and people in registering industrial property rights with the National Office of Intellectual Property of Vietnam.
As a end result, companies, cooperatives, and native residents have turn into more and more conscious of the significance of emblems, industrial designs, and innovations.
In 2025, Dong Thap recorded 153 industrial property purposes filed with the National Office of Intellectual Property and 185 protecting certificates granted, together with 178 trademark registration certificates and seven industrial design registration certificates.
These figures reveal the rising curiosity of organizations and people in defending and leveraging mental property belongings in manufacturing and enterprise actions.
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In 2025, Dong Thap allotted 3.5 billion VND for mental property administration actions throughout the province. In addition, science and know-how tasks beneath signed contracts have obtained funding based on schedule |
Beyond establishing mental property rights, Dong Thap has additionally centered on enhancing the efficient utilization of those belongings. Following the provincial merger, the brand new Dong Thap Province now has 4 geographical indications (Cao Lanh mango, Cat Hoa Loc mango, Lo Ren Vinh Kim star apple, and Dong Thap lotus), together with 32 certification emblems and 15 collective emblems serving manufacturing, enterprise improvement, and native picture promotion.
According to Ms. Nguyen Doan Thanh Tuyet, Deputy Director of the Dong Thap Department of Science and Technology, help for the safety and improvement of mental property belongings for the province’s key and distinctive merchandise has been applied in a complete and coordinated method.
At the identical time, science and know-how tasks beneath each nationwide and native mental property improvement packages have been carried out consistent with deliberate schedules.
The institution, administration, and improvement of community-owned agricultural emblems have regularly produced sensible outcomes, serving to improve the worth of the province’s key merchandise whereas increasing market alternatives.
Notably, the proactive efforts of localities to hunt safety for their signature merchandise replicate each sturdy dedication and correct path in creating agricultural manufacturers.
As a end result, organizations and people have gained a larger understanding of the position and significance of emblems, contributing to innovation and enhancing the worth of native merchandise.
CONTINUING TO ADDRESS CHALLENGES AND ENHANCE OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY
Despite the progress achieved, mental property actions throughout the province nonetheless face quite a few challenges and limitations that must be addressed.
Many manufacturing and enterprise institutions stay hesitant to make use of certification emblems or geographical indications.
The major purpose is that, with a purpose to meet the necessities for acquiring authorization to make use of these emblems, producers should make investments extra sources in manufacturing processes, traceability techniques, and high quality management measures, leading to increased manufacturing prices.
Meanwhile, the choice of some customers for lower-priced merchandise has made it harder for merchandise bearing emblems or geographical indications to compete with comparable merchandise that haven’t been registered for safety.
In addition, though many collective financial organizations have been established all through the province, their position in supporting the administration and improvement of group manufacturers stays restricted.
This is as a result of many organizations lack the sources wanted to information and help members in accessing and successfully using mental property rights, in addition to collaborating within the safety of shared manufacturers.
In response to those challenges, Dong Thap has recognized the continued promotion of mental property improvement help packages within the coming years. According to Nguyen Doan Thanh Tuyet, the province will proceed implementing key duties beneath the Intellectual Property Development Program by way of 2030.
At the identical time, it’s going to coordinate the implementation of nationally accredited science and know-how tasks beneath Decision No. 2205/QD-TTg, issued by the Prime Minister on December 24, 2020.
The province may also perform help insurance policies for financial organizations beneath Resolution No. 34/2025/NQ-HDND of the Provincial People’s Council, which inspires innovation, know-how utility, and know-how switch.
Dong Thap has additionally set a objective of selling innovation pushed by the utilization and utility of mental property belongings, significantly within the areas of patents, utility options, and industrial designs, consistent with Resolution No. 57-NQ/TW of the Politburo on the event of science, know-how, innovation, and nationwide digital transformation.
In parallel, the province will proceed implementing the Intellectual Property Development Program for the 2026-2030 interval, linked to key agricultural sectors reminiscent of rice, durian, pangasius, mango, and lotus, with the purpose of accelerating product worth and increasing market entry.
One of the province’s main instructions is the institution of a provincial innovation heart to advertise industrial property rights registration amongst native organizations and people.
At the identical time, the Department of Science and Technology will proceed to strengthen its position in helping residents and companies with utility dossiers, registration procedures, and connections with respected industrial property representatives to guard and maximize the worth of mental property belongings.
It is obvious that strengthening help for mental property improvement not solely enhances the worth of native merchandise but in addition creates momentum for innovation and the event of the agricultural financial system in the direction of modernity and sustainability.
This additionally offers an vital basis for Dong Thap to additional construct its picture as a dynamic locality with distinctive branded merchandise that may compete in each home and worldwide markets.
By T. DAT
Translated by ANH DUC