On November 13, 2014, the Euromoney Legal Media Group will host its annual Asia Women in Business Law Awards at the JW Marriott in Hong Kong. The firm awards will be judged on the best initiatives for gender diversity, innovation, work-life balance, pro-bono work, and talent management.Tilleke & Gibbins has been nominated in seven categories this year. This includes the following firmwide awards:

Somboon Earterasarun, director of Tilleke & Gibbins’ Jakarta office, will be a guest speaker at an IPR Helpdesk event cohosted by the European Commission and the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS). The event, named “ASEAN Intellectual Property Rights in Focus: Singapore, Indonesia, and Thailand – The Challenges and Opportunities Ahead of 2015,” will feature presentations on the different IP landscapes throughout ASEAN. Somboon will speak on the topic “Intellectual Property Rights in Thailand,” and he will discuss the following main subjects from a regional perspective:

In order to raise awareness among Thai society as to the potentially dangerous effects of counterfeit products, members from the Toyota Moving Around television program visited the Tilleke & Gibbins Museum of Counterfeit Goods and interviewed Inthupim Chokwaranun, an attorney-at-law in Tilleke & Gibbins’ intellectual property department, to feature on their show.

The arrival of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) will set upon investors an unfamiliar array of challenges that will require forward thinking and consideration of previously unanticipated issues. For owners of intellectual property, the shifting environment will affect their strategic decisions relating to IP protection.