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New Trademark Law Is Coming to Myanmar

Government to Register Nepal Tea, Coffee

Coming Together

With economic growth in the Persian Gulf, issues relating to intellectual property are drawing more attention. Amanda Shuai explores the Gulf Cooperation Council’s unified patent law and trademark laws as part of Asia IP’s first-time focu...

Trademark Applications Surge

Asia IP Awards Honour the Best of Asia’s IP Practices

The 2013 Asia IP Awards

After months of research, Asia IP will soon reveal the best trademark, patent and copyright practices in Asia. Gregory Glass outlines the methodology.

Trademark Watching: Keep Time on Your Side

Hayden Delaney and Amanda Dominick explain the benefits of trademark watching, the often overlooked, highly effective yet inexpensive brand protection tool that keeps time on your side and ensures you are in the best position to strategical...

Virtually Vital: Protecting Your Brands Online

As the internet is increasingly used by businesses to promote their goods and services, it is imperative for brand owners, small and large, to provide for appropriate protective measures. Omesh Puri explains how to protect the most valuable...

A Madrid Conundrum

With India’s recent accession to the Madrid Protocol, which will likely be followed by a number of Asian countries including Thailand and Malaysia, joining the Madrid system will continue to be a burning topic among stakeholders. Anna...

Are ASEAN’s Madrid preparations adequate?

Factor the Law into ASEAN Franchising

Franchises might all look the same, but what you need to consider for each country can be very different, and the regulations are changing relatively often. Andrew Quirk and Gladys Mirandah give you a flavour of the issues to be faced when...

Sunny Roo ‘Deceptively Similar’ to Sunny Boy, says Australian Court

The recent Australian Federal Court decision in SMA Solar Technology v. Beyond Building Systems provides a timely reminder about the interaction between the Trade Marks Act 1995, the common law tort of passing off and the ‘misleading and decept...

Law Enforcement Destroys US$800 Million of Fake Goods

Asian IP Experts Revealed

The 2013 Asia IP Trademark Survey

Greater China