Intellectual Property

Intellectual Property

Intellectual Property Department of JETRO Bangkok, which was founded on 1996 as “Industrial Property Department”, and changed its name on October 2002. The department undertakes several activities regarding intellectual property rights (IPR), i.e. patent, petty patent, utility model, industrial design, trademark, copyright, geographical indication, protection of layout design of semiconductor, protection of new varieties of plants, traditional knowledge, trade secret, etc., within ASEAN countries. Main activities of the department are as follows:

1. Providing legal advisory services

To provide legal advisory services on IPR in ASEAN countries to Japanese companies, as well as legal advisory services on IPR in Japan to ASEAN companies.

2. Conducting research and disseminating IPR enforcement information in ASEAN countries

To research and evaluate legislation and its practice on IPR enforcement, i.e. anti-counterfeiting, in each ASEAN country, and to publicize those in “Manual of Countermeasures Against Infringements”.

3. IPR Seminars

To jointly organize or to support seminars on IPR for both Japanese and ASEAN companies.

The co-hosts of the seminars in Thailand are Thai Invention Association (TIA), Intellectual Property Alumni Association (IPAA), Department of Intellectual Property (DIP) of the Ministry of Commerce (MOC), the Central Intellectual Property and International Trade Court (CIPITC), Japanese Chambers of Commerce (JCC), and Japan Institute of Invention and Innovation (JIII), etc.