Thailand’s Product Liability Act has been in force for six years but has not yet resulted in any landmark Supreme Court decisions. There are, however, many significant cases working their way through the legal system and business owners are beginning to feel the impact of the law, officially known as the Liability for Damages Arising from Unsafe Products Act.

With a population of 600 million, the combined economy of the 10 nations comprising the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) ranks as the ninth largest in the world. With the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) set to be realized on December 31 2015, most ASEAN countries must comply with the AEC Blueprint, which sets out guidelines for ASEAN to achieve its goal of becoming a single market by 2015. IP rights are an important issue in the blueprint.

In what marks the latest edition of the guide, Media, Advertising, and Entertainment Law Throughout the World 2014 has been published, to which Tilleke & Gibbins has contributed the Thailand and Vietnam chapters. The Thailand chapter, coauthored by Hassana Chira-aphakul and James Evans, attorney-at-law and consultant respectively in the firm’s IP department, is divided into sections covering media law, advertising law, entertainment law, and art law. The individual topics within each section are as follows:

This year’s edition of Media, Advertising, and Entertainment Law Throughout the World has been published, and Tilleke & Gibbins has contributed the Thailand and Vietnam chapters of the guide. Thomas J. Treutler, Tu Ngoc Trinh, and Thom Thi Mai Nguyen jointly authored the Vietnam chapter, which covers in detail issues related to media law, advertising law, entertainment law, and art law.

Intellectual property rights (IPR) protection is a key part of success in today’s business environment. As manufacturing companies grow, it is inevitable for corporate management—regardless of the type of industry—to shift its focus from tangible products to the intangible assets of intellectual property.

The fifth edition of The Employment Law Review was recently published by Law Business Research. The book, published in hardcover and as an e-book, provides a comprehensive overview of labor law in 50 different jurisdictions. Tilleke & Gibbins wrote the chapter for Vietnam.While last year’s chapter focused on the changes brought about by Vietnam’s new 2012 Labor Code, which took effect on May 1, 2013, this year’s chapter examines recent legislation in the areas of trade unions, labor outsourcing, and foreign nationals working in Vietnam.

Thailand is a popular tourist destination and, to many of those with an entrepreneurial spirit, it is an attractive country in which to operate a hotel business. Phuket, for example, is a bustling tourist hotspot and sees some of the highest levels of foreign investment in the hotel industry.Developing a new hotel from scratch, however, may not be an ideal choice for someone who lacks experience in the field. Hence, entrepreneurs with sufficient financial support often choose to acquire an existing hotel.

The latest edition of Practical Law Company’s Life Sciences Multi-jurisdictional Guide has been published. The guide, presented to readers in a Q&A format, provides country-specific analysis of the current regulatory framework surrounding the life sciences industry. The Thailand chapter of this guide, written by Tilleke & Gibbins, looks at the critical legal issues surrounding such topics as national healthcare, manufacturing, marketing, pricing, intellectual property, and product liability law, among others. The chapter covers the following main subjects: