PROMOTION OF UNIVERSITIES’ PATENTCOMMERCIALIZATION FORINNOVATION- EXPERIENCE OF VIETNAM
Associate Professor Phan Quoc Nguyen, PhD.
University of Law, Viet Nam National University, Ha Noi

IP COLLEGIUM 2023

BIOGRAPHY- Representative scientist/reseacher of Vietnam National University, Hanoi, 2020.
- Intellectual Property Attorney and Senior consultant in Intellectual Property Law, Technology Transfer,
Innovation and Entrepreurship, Commercialization of Intellectual Property.
- Public Relations Director and Vietnam’s Representative of World Invention and Intellectual Property
Associations (WIIPA).
- External Director of Vietnam Innovative Workers Association (VLIA).
- President founder of Club for Entrepreneurship Innovation Consultans (WSA).
- Innovation Ambassor (“ProScientia et Innovatio” Order, KNIGT title) of EUROINVENT.
- “Leadership Award”, KNIGT title, LITE-United Kingdom.
- Expert of Invention-Technical Solution Program (Vietnam Television Channel No.2), Vietnam’s Innovation(Vietnam Television Channel No.3), Intellectual Property Stories (Vietnam Television Channel No.2),
Business and Law (Vietnam Television Channel No.2), etc.
- International Judge of invention and innovation contests: in the USA (INNOVERSE), Canada (ICAN),Europe (EUROINVENT, INTARG, INOVA, IWIS, 1IDEA1WOLRD), Asia (JDIE, WICC, WICO, HKIE,IYIE, KIE, KIDE, i-ENVEX, MIIEX, Nihum Savanak, IYIA, WINTEX, STEM-based invention,…).
- Representative of Vietnam delivers three times the Country Report at Technology Transfer University andIndustry of World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
- Member of drafting and revising the Decision No.78/2008/QD-BGDĐT of Ministry of Education andTraining on intellectual property activities at higher education institutions in Vietnam.
- Chief author, co-author of 18 books, domestic and international.
- Author, co-author of more than 60 papers publications at prestigious Vietnamese and international journals.
- Co-Inventor and owner of 10 inventions/patents.

INTRODUCTION- Patent/invention promotes innovation, investment andtechnology transfer.
- Promotion of suitable patent commercialization fromuniversities and SMEs helps increase income, contribute toeconomic growth and raise competitiveness.
- Thanks to good policy and legal rules, number ofcommercialized patent increases.
- However, it is still limited, not commensurate withpotentials.

IMPORTANCE OF PATENT COMMERCIALIZATION FOR INNOVATION
For the licensee- Saving resources while still getting quick access to the market.
- Grasping uneasily-available technologies.

For the licensor- Increasing revenue and reputation.
- Being motivated to spend time focusing on creating new technologies,
and thus promoting innovation and creativity.
For the entire society- Playing a crucial role in daily life and social civilization.
- Enhancing competitiveness, promoting the development ofknowledge-based economy.

WAYS OF PATENT COMMERCIALIZATION1234• Self commercialization• Assignment• Licensing• Collateral• Financing

NATIONAL SUPPORT POLICY FOR UNIVERSITIES AND SMES

-Foreign Investment Law 1987, 1991;
Ordinance on Foreign Technology Transfer 1988;
Ordinance on Industrial Property Protection 1989;
Civil Code 1995, 2015;
Law on Technology Transfer 2007, 2017;
Law on Enterprises 2005, 2014, 2021;
Commercial Code 2005, 2019, 2021;
Law on Intellectual Property 2006, 2009, 2019;
Law on Investment 2014, 2020...

PATENT COMMERCIALIZATION OF VNU-Improvement (according to the Annual Report 2018, 2019 and 2020)2018:+ criteria «Patent/US» 9 (over plan 29%),+ 06 TT contracts signed 9-10/08/2018.
2019:+ 35 patent filings,+ 8 patent/US certificate.
+ 58 projects for technical transfer for Nord West region.
2020:+ Criteria «Patent/US» achieves more than 94%.
+ 32 patent filings and 15 patent/US.
+ «Consulting contract: 7, 70%.

+ «Transfered Technologies»: 5, 83%.

SITUATION OF PATENT FILING
PatentUtilitiy Solutions

Year
Vietnamese

Foreigner

Total

Vietnamese

Foreigner

Total

2010

29

793

822

35

2358

2011

40945

985

46

2369

2012

45980

1025

59

2867

2013

59

1203

1262

74

33

117

2014
2015

36631332
1325

1368
1388

66
86203186117

2016

76

1347

1423

114

24138

2017

109

1636

1745

118

28146

2018

205

2014

2219

290

65355

2019

169

2451

2620

230

72

302

2020

139

4180

4319

201

77

278

Total

970

18.20619.176

1.319

424

1.743

TRANSFER OF PATENT RIGHTS
Year

Licensing contract

Assignment contract

2010

225

2011

418

2012

128

2013

442

2014

567

2015

345

2016

653

2017

371

2018

547

2019

3103

2020

848

Total

44547

SITUATION OF PATENT COLLATERAL-In fact, Vietnamese banks ask collateral of valued
assets such as house, land.

-Lack of detailed regulations.

LAW ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY 2022

• Promoting and accelerating innovation, IP exploitation...
• The State transfers the right to register inventions
being result of state-funded assignment to otherorganizations and individuals, and the State allows
other organizations and individuals to use suchinvention without authorisation of the holder of theexclusive right.
• For scientific and technological projects with funding of
the State more than 30% of total funds, the income
division after tax from patent commercialization isdelivered to the broker according to parties’agreements but does not exceed 10%.

ASPIRATION FOR VIETNAM BY 2035

Decision No. 138/QĐ-TTg dated on 26/1/2022
amending, adding some provision of the Decision No.
1851/QĐ-TTg dated on 27/12/2018 approving Project“Promoting transfer, master and development offoreign technologies in prioritied fields andprofessions to 2025, direction to 2030”.
+ By 2025, 400 transfered technologies; 10 masteredtechnologies, number of FDI having TT raises around
10%/year.
+ By 2030, 1000 transfered technologies; 30 mastered
technologies, number of FDI having TT raises around
15%/year.

PHAN QUOC NGUYEN
Email: pqnguyen77@yahoo.com