LE QUANG VINH

Full name: LE QUANG VINH

Year of Birth: 1976

Occupation: Lawyer, co-founder of BROSS & Partners Law Limited Liability Company; Patent - design - trademark and copyright practitioner.

Scope of Activities and Experiences: Consulting - Settlement of intellectual property disputes; IP Enforcement.

Language: Vietnamese, English

Education

2005 - Present

Qualified attorney admitted by the Vietnam Bar Federation.

Certificate of qualification as a lawyer (legal practice license) granted by the Ministry of Justice, Socialist Republic of Vietnam (October 2005).

2011 - 2019

He received a practicing certificate of service representation of rights to plant varieties issued by the Department of Crop Production under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (January 2019).

2014 - Accredited Practitioner regarding Protection of Plant Variety.

2011 - Record the organization representing copyright and related rights (Copyright Department).

2004 - 2007

He received the industrial property representation service practice certificate - issued by the National Office of Intellectual Property under the Ministry of Science and Technology (August 2007).

Registered Patent, Design, Trademark and Copyright Agent (NOIP).

Certificate, Arbitration of IP Disputes and Domain Names Dispute Resolutions, Singapore (WIPO and SIAC).

2003

WIPO IP online-training course.

2001

US Federal Bureau of Investigation, IPR Enforcement Course, Hanoi.

Jul – Dec 2000

Certificate on the Basic course on Securities and Securities market; Certificate on the  Securities Analysis and Investment,etc.

(State Securities Commission of Vietnam)

1994 - 1998

Hanoi University of Law (Hanoi, Vietnam).

LLB (Law).

Professional activities

2008 - Present

He is an attorney and also a patent, design, trademark and copyright practitioner with over 20 years of experience currently practicing in Vietnam for Bross & Partners.

2017 - 2021

His earning many international individual accolades, for example, the second year listed in the world leading patent and trademark practitioners as the WTR1000^[1] and IAM Patent 1000^[2] respectively (2020).

In July 2021, he was identified as a leading author in the Lexology Legal Influencer Q2 2021^[3] for IP - Cross-border.

Between 2014 and 2017, he was consecutively ranked as one of the Asian leading lawyers by the Asialaw Profiles.

In 2020, the Asialaw Profiles ranked Vinh as a distinguished practitioner.^[4]

Vinh also actively delivered comment and critique on the amendments to the IP Law

2014 - 2015

Invited by the Inspector of the MoST as a moderator leading the seminar "Handling domain names infringing intellectual property rights" held in Ho Chi Minh City in July 2015.

On August 18 and 19, 2015, Vinh were invited by the MUTRAP as one of the speakers to train IP law to the specialized inspectors under the provincial Departments of Science and Technology nationwide with the focus on IP enforcement.

In April 2014, Vinh was appointed by the INTA to be the host organizing the academic seminar on "Overlapping protection of 3D trademark, design and copyright”.

Published articles/Interviews

2005 - 2020

A 190-page study report as a result of “Project on Protection of Well-known Trademark under Vietnamese Laws - Situation and Solution" co-authored by attorney Le Quang Vinh and Dr. Phan Ngoc Tam sponsored by the INTA and Ministry of Science and Technology.

Article “A brief history of protection” published on World Trademark Review, Issue June/July 2014 commenting the famous protection regime under the laws of Vietnam.

An interview on “Buon Ma Thuot coffee brand was lost in China” in the “Evening News” program on VTV1 Channel, September 2011.

An interview on “Protection of Trademark for Vietnam Enterprises in Overseas” in the “Lawyers of Enterprises” program on VITV Channel, October 2009.

Invited Speaker, VCCI, Vietnamese Brands and US Market, Hanoi (October 30, 2007,etc.

Experiences in legal consultancy and litigation

Legal representative as barristers defending the defendant FPT Telecom Joint Stock Company against the copyright lawsuit initiated by Phong Phu Sac Viet Joint Stock Company (POPs).

Counselling Viet Phap Shal Aluminum Joint Stock Company, the right holder of registered trademarks Viet Phap Shal, to protect its trademark rights against the trademark counterfeit profiles by criminal measures and as a result, the criminal case wherein the criminal liability for corporation were first time prosecuted and adjudicated under Section 226 of the 2015 Penal Code as revised by the People's Court of Phu Tho province in January 2020.

Legal representative for famous director Viet Tu participated in counselling and drafting cooperation contracts with his partners regarding creative products in the field of performing art and stage.

Advising Dak Lak Provincial People's Committee on the validity cancellation against 2 trademarks Buon Ma Thuot coffee which are protected as geographical indication of Vietnam were appropriated in China in 2011.^[5]

Advising and representing Vinamilk to win when Hero AG (Switzerland) claiming for revoking Vinamilk’s registered trademark Dielac Pedia under registration no. 53878.^[6],etc.