Intellectual Property - A bridge between students and businesses

The competition was attended by students from four universities: National Economics University, Hanoi Law University, Foreign Trade University, and University of Social Sciences and Humanities. This is also the sixth year that the University and the Intellectual Property Office have organized this activity.

April 26th of each year is chosen by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) as "World Intellectual Property Day(World Intellectual Property Day - World IP Day). Through the themes of World IP Day, WIPO conveys the message of encouraging global innovation and creativity.

2016 marks the 16th World IP Day organized by WIPO to raise awareness of the role of intellectual property in life, as well as to honor the contributions of innovators to the development of society. Looking back at the messages that WIPO has tried to convey over the past 16 years, WIPO has always been persistent in its goal of promoting innovation and facilitating the transfer of intellectual property-related technology to developing countries to accelerate economic, social and cultural development, while protecting intellectual property rights worldwide.

In his opening speech, the President of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Pham Quang Minh, spoke about the importance of improving the quality of research and training of human resources in intellectual property, as well as raising public awareness of this field. He said: In Vietnam at present, strengthening the protection of intellectual property rights to meet the increasing demands of the international economic integration process has become an extremely urgent requirement. Although intellectual property rights protection in Vietnam is a very new thing, the State is currently making efforts to consolidate and perfect the current legal system. While Vietnam has achieved remarkable achievements in building intellectual property laws, the implementation of these regulations in practice has only been initially implemented and has not achieved the desired results. To make Vietnam's intellectual property rights protection system truly an effective system requires synchronous and comprehensive measures in many aspects. In particular, developing human resources for IP and improving public awareness of IP through training and education programs on IP at universities and colleges in Vietnam at the present stage is of great importance.

The competition is organized with the aim of linking training with the reality of IP activities, encouraging students and businesses to learn and improve their understanding of Intellectual Property - an important factor in the knowledge economy and integration. This is also a place to create conditions for exchanges between "future managers" on an equal and friendly playing field. The competition is also an opportunity for future managers to meet and learn about businesses, as well as successful CEOs to learn more experience and thereby understand more about work and future career choices.

The contest has 3 parts: Greeting - General knowledge of IP - Handling situations. With the knowledge and skills that have been conveyed in the university lecture hall about intellectual property, students from four major universities in Hanoi have the opportunity to show off their talents through extremely lively and interesting competitions, contributing to spreading knowledge and awareness of intellectual property to the community, thereby improving the effectiveness of protecting intellectual property in practice.

First prize went to Hanoi Law University, Second prize went to University of Social Sciences and Humanities - VNU, Third prize went to National Economics University and Foreign Trade University.

The contest is an annual activity within the framework of the cooperation agreement on Intellectual Property between the Department of Intellectual Property and the University of Social Sciences and Humanities. The three sponsors of the contest are Truong Xuan Intellectual Property Law Firm, MasterBrand LLC, and Phuong Hoang Law Firm.