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March 14, 2012

Travel Channel to Feature Museum of Counterfeit Goods on March 17

Travel Channel Thailand

Click Pai Tiew Pai, a TV program produced by the Travel Channel Thailand, will feature the Tilleke & Gibbins Museum of Counterfeit Goods in its upcoming weekly show. The program highlights various attractions and places to visit around the region. The host of the show, Vorarit Fuengarom, interviewed IP attorney Inthupim Chokwaranun during a visit to the museum for a discussion about IP issues in Thailand.

Click Pai Tiew Pai will air on Saturday, March 17 at 8:30 pm on True Vision 73 and will be rebroadcasted several times throughout the week. For more information about the rebroadcast or to book a media visit for the museum, please contact Suthatip Anantapornsuk at [email protected].

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Parichart Monaiyakul, an attorney-at-law in the firm’s intellectual property group, is featured in an interview in the May 17, 2011, edition of the Bangkok Post. The article, “Spot the Fakes: Nothing Is What It Seems in This Display” by Peerawat Jariyasombat, provides an overview of the Tilleke & Gibbins Museum of Counterfeit Goods. In discussing how consumers can identify counterfeit goods, Parichart said, “You can often identify counterfeit goods based on their quality, the place where they are being sold, as well as the price and the packaging.
April 28, 2011
Prasipha Phatthana-Olarn and Titikaan Ungbhakorn, attorneys-at-law in the Tilleke & Gibbins IP group, were interviewed about the firm’s Museum of Counterfeit Goods for the Thai-language book Places to Take Kids in Bangkok. As part of a chapter on “Edutainment Tours,” Prasipha commented on the damage that IP infringements can cause, while Titikaan provided insight on the difficulty of differentiating real products from their fake counterparts.
April 28, 2011
The Tilleke & Gibbins Museum of Counterfeit Goods has been featured in the latest issue of Tropical magazine. James Evans, a consultant with the firm’s IP group, was interviewed for the article. James described the presence of counterfeit goods as a “middle-class” problem, while also citing Thailand as the second-largest source of counterfeit goods worldwide. The article states that counterfeit goods represent “USD 600 billion in losses” and “the loss of over 100,000 jobs in Europe yearly.”
April 27, 2011
This 2002 article from The Nation provides a profile of the Tilleke & Gibbins Museum of Counterfeit Goods and basic intellectual property issues.