Clients are struggling to ban infringing goods from the internet, we experience difficulties making payments because our bank is under a Distributed Denial of Service attack and we frequently receive phishing mails and spam. Despite this, Pirate Bay and illegal streaming can be tempting (even to IP professionals).
New IP law abolished the provisions concerning the use requirement of patents and evidence on use detailed in the Decree Law on the Protection of Patent Rights. Instead, IP law now mentions the use requirement within the provision on compulsory licences, as a consequence of non-use of a patent.
If, like Utynam, you love internet memes almost as much as you love IP, you will have delighted in the news at the end of January. The owners of the feline known as Grumpy Cat won $700,000 in a copyright infringement case in California.
In January 2018, Thailand's efforts to strengthen its IP system and enforcement processes for counterfeit and pirated goods were recognised with the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) removing Thailand from its Priority Watch List for intellectual property. Thailand had been on the USTR Priority Watch List for more than a decade.
