The latest edition of the PLC Life Sciences Multi-jurisdictional Guide  provides a Q&A-style analysis of the current regulatory framework surrounding the life sciences industry. Lawyers at Tilleke & Gibbins authored the Vietnam chapter of the guide, which covers national healthcare, regulation of medicinal product prices, clinical trials, manufacturing, sales and marketing, advertising, data protection, packaging and labeling, product liability, patents, trademarks, and competition law.Practical Law Company is a leading provider of legal resources.

Practical Law Company has published the latest edition of the PLC Life Sciences Multi-jurisdictional Guide, a Q&A-style guide which provides country-specific analysis of the current regulatory framework surrounding the life sciences industry. Tilleke & Gibbins authored the Thailand chapter of this guide, which looks at pricing and state funding, manufacturing, marketing, clinical trials, advertising, labeling, product recall and liability, patents, trademarks, competition law, patent licensing, generic entry, abuse of dominance, and parallel imports.

Guarantors are subject to a number of important obligations under Thai law. A guarantor can be held jointly liable with a debtor, or worse, solely and entirely liable as a primary debtor. In addition, creditors often use their higher bargaining power to force guarantors to waive their rights as secondary debtors, meaning that certain fundamental rights, such as the requirement for creditors to first call on debtors, are no longer enforceable.The main forms of security available under the Thai Civil and Commercial Code are:

Practical Law Company has published the latest edition of its multi-jurisdictional guide to Insurance and Reinsurance, a country-specific Q&A guide that provides overviews of insurance and reinsurance law and practice in 28 jurisdictions around the world. Vinh Quoc Nguyen, senior attorney-at-law, and Jim Dao, registered foreign attorney, at Tilleke & Gibbins, coauthored the Vietnam chapter of the guide.

The 2015/16 edition of Practical Law Company’s multi-jurisdictional guide to Insurance and Reinsurance  has been published. The guide is presented in a country-specific Q&A format and provides detailed overviews of insurance and reinsurance law and practice in key jurisdictions worldwide. Tilleke & Gibbins authored the Thailand chapter of the guide, which delves into the following subjects:

When determining whether trademarks are identical or similar, trademark registrars and the Board of Trademarks used to be very consistent in their decision-making. In most cases, if a registrar refused to register a trademark and the applicant appealed the decision to the Board of Trademarks, the Board would typically confirm the registrar’s order and refuse to register that trademark. Only in unusual circumstances would the Board overturn an earlier decision by the registrar.

Myanmar still has no Trademark Act—a law was expected to come into effect in 2013, but was then postponed with as yet no firm date as to when it will be enacted. Despite this, many rights holders have already taken steps to protect their trademarks under Myanmar’s existing system by recording their marks with the Office of the Registry of Deeds and Assurances (RDA) under the Registration Act.

Kien Trung Trinh, senior attorney-at-law, and Tu Ngoc Trinh, attorney-at-law, in Tilleke & Gibbins’ Hanoi office, have co-authored the Vietnam chapter of The International Comparative Legal Guide to: Pharmaceutical Advertising 2015 (12th edition), a Q&A-style guide that provides practical, cross-border insight into pharmaceutical advertising across 35 jurisdictions. The Vietnam chapter covers the following main topics: