Unit 1.

Intellectual Property
Law
Nguyen Huy Hoang Nam, LL.M.
 Main Content
• Introduction to Intellectual Property

• The State Street Case

• Exercises
 Introduction to Intellectual Property
• Reading 1 – U11
• Read the text for a general understanding

• Examine key terms

• Finish relevant exercises

 KEY TERMS (1)
• Components of IP rights (in Common Law countries & in VN)

• Copyrights = Rights of an organization or individual to works which

such organization or individual created or owns

• Work(s) = A creation of the mind in the literary, artistic or scientific

sector, expressed in any mode or form

• Piracy (n) = illegal copying

 KEY TERMS (2)
• Passing off = The illegal act of selling a product that is similar to one
that another company has legally protected by a trademark

• Pursuant to = In accordance with

• Statutory (a) = required by statute

• (Trade) mark = Any sign used to distinguish goods or services of

different organizations or individuals
 KEY TERMS (3)
• Cybersquatting (n) = the unauthorized registration and use of Internet
domain names that are identical or similar to trademarks, service
marks, company names, or personal names

• Derivative work (n) = a work translated from one language into

another; or an adapted, modified, transformed, compiled, annotated,
selected
 The State Street Case
• Reading 2 – U11
• Read the text for a general understanding

• Examine key terms

• Finish relevant exercises

 KEY TERMS (4)
• Two level of trialing
• Court of First Instance
• Court of Appeal

• Challenge (v) = Object = Protest

• Federal Circuit Court

• “ill-conceived” = wrongly conceived