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Police in the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau last week announced that it had completed an investigation into copyright infringement involving Saigon Vietnam Beer Group JSC. Le Dinh Trung, a former employee of Saigon Beer-Alcohol-Beverage Corporation (SABECO), can now be prosecuted for industrial property rights violations after producing goods and selling them to market without obtaining the certificate of registration for trademark protection by the competent authority.
The issue was first raised in June last year when it was found that over 4,700 cases of beer, nearly 117,000 cans (330 ml types) and over 3,000 beer cartons showing signs of infringement of SABECOâs trademarked products. The value of the products was estimated to be more than VND1.4 billion ($61,000). According to calculations, for e