Main legal documents drafted by the National Office of Industrial; Property (the former National Office of Inventions) in cooperation with other agencies is as follows:

- Ordinance on the protection of industrial property rights (dated 11 February 1989)
- Decree No. 31/CP issued together with the Regulation on technical innovations, production rationalization and inventions (dated 23 January 1981)
- Decree No. 197/HDBT issued together with the Regulation on trademarks (dated 14 December 1982)
- Decree No. 85/HDBT issued together with the Regulation on industrial designs (dated 13 May 1988)
- Decree No. 200/HDBT issued together with the Regulation on utility solutions (dated 28 December 1988)
- Decree No. 201/HDBT issued together with the Regulation on License (dated 28 December 1988)
- Decree No. 84/ HDBT on the amendment, supplement to the Regulation on technical innovations, production rationalization and inventions, Regulation on trademarks, Regulation on utility solutions; Regulation on industrial designs, and Regulation on License (dated 20 March 1990)
- Decree No. 63/CP on detailed regulations on industrial property (dated 24 October 1996)
- Decree No. 12/1999/ND-CP on the handling of administrative violations in the field of industrial property (dated 6 March 1999)
- Decree No. 54/2000/ND-CP on the protection of industrial property rights to business secrets, geographical indications, trade names and protection against industrial property-related unfair competition (dated 3 October 2000)
- Decree No. 06/2001/ND-Cpon the amendment, supplement to provisions in of the Decree No. 63/CP on detailed regulations on industrial property (dated 1 February 2001)

International conventions and treaties in the field of industrial property to which Vietnam is a party:

- Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property of 1883 and revised in 1967
- Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks of 1891 and revised in 1979
- Patent Cooperation Treaty PCT (1970)
- Stockholm Convention establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization WIPO (1967)

Besides, Vietnam has signed the following bilateral agreements (NOIP is responsible for the draft and negotiation):

- The Vietnam - Switzerland Agreement on the protection of intellectual property and on cooperation in the field of intellectual property (1999)
- The United States - Vietnam Trade Agreement (2000))(Chapter II devotes intellectual property issues)