With the approval of the Hanoi Tax Department, the NOIP announced the application of electronic receipts in exchange for fees and charges payable at the National Office of Intellectual Property of Vietnam (No. 386 Nguyen Trai, Thanh Xuan, Hanoi).

Accordingly, the time to apply electronic receipts is from January 1, 2021. Electronic receipts are applied at the NOIP's Office for industrial property fees and charges.

To serve the issuance of electronic receipts, units need to provide contents, such as Name of organization / individual paying fees and charges; address; tax code; email. The Office of the National Office of Intellectual Property will send information to look up electronic receipts to organizations / individuals at this email address).

Also according to the notice, receipts of organizations / individuals are stored in electronic form. When there is a need to look up, organizations / individuals follow the instructions at the email notification of the electronic receipt issued. This receipt also has legal value and is used to record expenses, tax returns like paper receipts.

The above is the entire notice of the National Office of Intellectual Property of Vietnam for individuals and organizations to know.

In fact, Vietnam's intellectual property laws are constantly improving to meet needs, to conform to reality and international integration. Registration of industrial property rights is one of the typical provisions of the law. Accordingly, recognizing and protecting industrial property rights of organizations and individuals on the basis of harmonizing interests of industrial property rights holders with public interests.

An industrial property right subject is granted a protection title on the basis of the examination results of the application by the applicant, on the basis of law provisions on the form and content of the application.