To be eligible for a design patent under Thai law, a product design must be novel and industrially applicable. A product design is considered to be novel if, before the application is filed, the design:

On October 26, 2018, the Supervisory Committee for Motor Vehicle Import, a branch of the Ministry of Commerce, released Notification No. 1/2018 in regard to the importation of vehicles in Myanmar in 2019. Under the new legislation (which is largely similar to the 2018 notification that it replaces) only left-hand drive vehicles, or machines that cannot be classified as either right-hand or left-hand drive, will be permitted for importation. In addition, the updated law stresses the importance of importing new vehicles by classifying permitted vehicles based on their year of manufacture.