Enhanced intellectual property right protection

tate President Tran Dai Quang stressed while receiving Francis Gurry, Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization, in Hanoi on Tuesday. Vietnam has defined protecting industrial patents, ensuring fair competition, and encouraging creativity via the Civil Code's regulations on industrial patent protection.

Intellectual property plays an important role in helping Vietnam realize its growth target of between 6.5 and 7 percent growth by 2020, he added. Francis Gurry congratulated Vietnam on recent socio-economic achievements based on economic and technological development strategies.