PLC Life Sciences Global Guide  is a Q&A-style chapter that provides an overview of the regulatory frameworks of the life sciences industries across multiple jurisdictions worldwide. Legal practitioners from Tilleke & Gibbins contributed to the Thailand chapter of the guide, which is comprised of the following two sections:

Medical Product Regulation and Product Liability in Thailand

• Pharmaceutical legislation and regulatory authorities
• Regulation of biologicals and combination products, and medical devices and diagnostics
• National healthcare system
• Pricing, state funding, and reimbursement
• Clinical trial regulations
• Medical product manufacturing
• Marketing authorization procedures, and commitment and pharmacovigilance obligations
• Parallel imports
• Restrictions on dealings with healthcare professionals
• Restrictions on sales and marketing, and advertising
• Data protection
• Packaging and labelling
• Product liability
• Proposals for reform

Pharmaceutical IP and Competition Law in Thailand

• Pharmaceutical patent legislation and scope of protection
• Patent application process, duration of protection, and revocation
• Patent infringement, claims, and remedies
• Non-patent barriers to competition for pharmaceutical protection
• Pharmaceutical trademark legislation and scope of protection
• Trademark application process, duration of protection, and revocation
• Trademark infringement, claims, and remedies
• Regulatory powers and enforcement against pharmaceutical counterfeiting
• Competition law framework and implications for the pharmaceutical sector
• Competition issues related to licensing of pharmaceutical technology and patents, and market entry of generic products
• Market dominance issues in the pharmaceutical sector
• Parallel imports
• Foreign patent and trademark licenses, and payment of royalties

Tilleke & Gibbins was also contributed the guide’s Vietnam chapter.