Vietnam to buy out IP rights for ST25 rice variety Chia sẻ | FaceBookTwitter Email Copy Link Copy link bài viết thành công
12/05/2021 10:16 GMT+7
ST24 and ST25 rice varieties are expected to become state assets, ensuring mass production in Vietnam.
The Ministry of Agricultural and Rural Development (MARD) is considering to take an unprecedented move by using fund from the government s program on seed research, development and production for agricultural restructuring to buy out intellectual property (IP) rights of the ST24 and ST25 rice varieties.
Vice Minister of Agricultural and Rural Development Phung Duc Tien. Photo: Do Huong/Hanoitimes
Trademark trickery blurs rice status Chia sẻ | FaceBookTwitter Email Copy Link Copy link bài viết thành công
06/05/2021 18:21 GMT+7
Unlike regional competition, Vietnamese branding approaches of well-established rice varieties could still see some improvements because of existing ambiguities in the product development strategies of the responsible government agencies.
Nevertheless, the renowned ST25 rice could still participate in next year’s World Rice competition, and thus secure fame for one of the most important export goods of the nation.
ST25 was voted World’s Best Rice at the award ceremony of the same name in 2019.
It is currently not possible to determine whether the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) will approve which company as the rightful owner of the ST24 and ST25 rice trademark in the US. On its trademark registration
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Unlike regional competition, Vietnamese branding approaches of well-established rice varieties could still see some improvements because of existing ambiguities in the product development strategies of the responsible government agenies. Nevertheless, the renowned ST25 rice could still participate in next yearâs World Rice competition, and thus secure fame for one of the most important export goods of the nation.
ST25 was voted Worldâs Best Rice at the award ceremony of the same name in 2019, Photo: Le Toan
It is currently not possible to determine whether the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) will approve which company as the rightful owner of the ST24 and ST25 rice trademark in the US. On its trademark registration system, the USPTO on April 22 stated that five dossiers for the registration of trademark protection of ST25 rice are currently being examined, which me