Pharmaceutical experts from Tilleke & Gibbins authored the Vietnam chapters of the latest edition of the PLC Life Sciences Global Guide. PLC’s popular guides provide a comparative overview, in Q&A format, of laws and regulations across a wide range of practice areas in dozens of jurisdictions around the world.The Life Sciences Global Guide  focuses on the pharmaceutical sector and related areas, and is divided into two sections. The first section covers medicinal product regulation and product liability, including the following topics:

“InsurTech” is a term that people may not be able to find a definition for, even in modern dictionaries. There is no Thai translation of it, or for its sister term “FinTech.” The popular opinion is that the term InsurTech was inspired by FinTech, and it should generally be used to refer to the use of technological innovation which enhances the economic efficiency of the insurance industry.

On November 7 this year, Thailand will officially become the 99th member of the Madrid Protocol, a centralized system for trademark owners to protect marks in multiple jurisdictions, using only one international application, and subsequently to manage that protection in a single step.

The Thai Board of Investment (BOI) established a new Strategic Talent Center (STC) on July 3, 2017, to provide assistance to private Thai and foreign companies that are seeking to recruit highly skilled Thai and foreign specialists in the fields of science and technology to support their businesses in Thailand.

The PLC Energy and Natural Resources Global Guide 2017  provides a comparative high-level overview of energy laws and regulations in multiple jurisdictions around the world, structured in a concise Q&A format. Vinh Quoc Nguyen, senior attorney-at-law in Tilleke & Gibbins’ Ho Chi Minh City office, contributed the chapter on electricity regulations in Vietnam for the guide.The electricity chapter covers a range of topics, including the following:

The electricity regulation segment of Practical Law Company’s Energy and Natural Resources Global Guide  provides a Q&A-style overview of power issues and regulations across 23 jurisdictions worldwide. The Thailand chapter, written by Cynthia M. Pornavalai and Santhapat Periera, partners at Tilleke & Gibbins, details the country’s domestic electricity market, regulatory framework, and procedures and requirements. In particular, it covers the following subjects:

April 21, 2017, was an important milestone in the settlement of IP infringement cases relating to “.vn” domain names in Vietnam. This was the day the domain name <www.bmw.com.vn> was withdrawn by the national domain name management agency, the Vietnam Internet Network Information Center (VNNIC), taking control of the domain away from the registrant by “flicking a switch” at the registry.

From September 1, 2017, the Thai Department of Intellectual Property will accept applications for sound trademark registration, as provided for in Ministerial Regulation No. 5 B.E. 2560 (A.D. 2017), issued under the Trademark Act B.E. 2534 (A.D. 1991).To apply to register a sound trademark, clause 11 of the Ministerial Regulation requires applicants to submit the following items, in addition to the list of goods or services: