Vietnam’s National Office of Intellectual Property of Vietnam (NOIP) launched its first Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) as a pilot program with the Japan Patent Office (JPO) on April 1, 2016.The program applies to Vietnamese patent applications (including Vietnamese national phase applications of PCT applications) which:

Last month, a U.S. court in California issued an order to Apple that was metaphorically equivalent to a magnitude 9 earthquake cutting through the Silicon Valley. The order shook the tech world to its core, requiring Apple to write code to bypass a security feature of its product to allow a brute force password attack by the FBI to unlock an iPhone used by one of the terrorists killed by police after the San Bernardino attack in December 2015. That order, and the subsequent filings by the U.S.

In Thailand, employers with ten or more employees must file a copy of their Work Rules (and subsequent revisions) in the Thai language to the Director-General of the Department of Labor Protection and Welfare within seven days from the date the Work Rules are announced. The traditional method to file these documents is to send them by post or in person to the Director-General.

This is an outline of the respective powers of directors with binding signatory power, the Board of Directors, the Managing Director(s), the Chairman of the Board and other officers, and the shareholders in private Thailand limited companies.Introduction

A new Indonesian regulation sets out, for the first time, the procedures for recording license agreements for trademarks, patents, and copyright. This is an important development because, without recordation, a license holder does not have the right to enforce the licensed intellectual property rights against an infringer, and the license holder’s use of the IP is not recognized as actual “use” by the IP owner.

In recent months, there has been excitement about the prospect of new electronic payment services in Thailand. News reports have described a system that will enable instantaneous funds transfer using only ID cards.From a public policy standpoint, it is challenging to move small payments to the electronic space. When that is accomplished, however, it can result in substantial benefits. For example, reducing the usage of cash can reduce the yield of robberies on the street and ultimately reduce the occurrence of robberies.

In January 2016, Decree 06/2016/ND-CP on Management, Provision, and Use of Broadcasting and TV Services (Decree 06) was promulgated, effective from March 15, 2016. Degree 06 will replace Decision 20/2011 on Pay TV and Circular 19/2009 on Coproduction of Radio and TV Programs.Below are some key highlights of Decree 06:

After Thailand’s Department of Intellectual Property (DIP) recently announced that it would abolish the recordation system for well-known trademarks, many questions about the status of well-known marks remained unanswered. This article will discuss whether well-known marks are still protected in Thailand, who has authority to determine whether a mark is well known, and whether a similar recordation system will be reestablished in the future.