Thailand’s Department of Intellectual Property has signalled this week, in its response to the 2026 U.S. Special 301 Report, that the draft amendment to the Patent Act has moved into the final accelerated stage of legislation. Thailand remains on the U.S. intellectual property Watch List, but the reform message is now more practical than political: companies filing patents, designs or technology-related matters in Thailand should revisit authorisation records, filing calendars and likely prosecution costs before the law changes rather than after.In Malaysia, MyIPO’s revised Guidelines of...
As of 20 June 2026, Thailand’s Department of Intellectual Property (DIP) is no longer merely experimenting with faster trademark procedures for the digital economy. The Fast Track 4 Month Plus+ route has started to show what it really is: not a relaxed shortcut, but a tightly managed lane for applicants that can present a clean, e-filed, single-class case with standard specifications, prior searches, and a credible need to use the mark on online platforms. For businesses racing to secure a filing position before marketplace launches or platform onboarding, that is useful news. It also means...
On 24 June 2026, Thailand’s Department of Intellectual Property (DIP) signalled a sharper enforcement model for online counterfeiting. Working with Meta Thailand and other platform stakeholders, the agency is no longer framing the issue as a simple takedown exercise. The emphasis has moved toward automated detection, digital intelligence and source-tracing that can connect anonymous online sellers to warehouses and offline supply points.The timing matters. Thailand’s B2C e-commerce market reached 970 billion baht in 2025 and is projected to grow to 1.8 trillion baht by 2030. Against that...
On 24 June, Thailand’s Department of Intellectual Property (DIP) said it had removed or suspended 1,322 suspected trademark and copyright listings from online platforms in the first five months of 2026, while related enforcement led to 116 cases and 224,042 seized items at storage and warehouse points. The more important signal was rhetorical as much as operational: the DIP is no longer describing online infringement as a simple takedown problem, but as a chain that runs from platform data to upstream supply nodes.A few weeks earlier, Thai media personality DJ Nui pushed a different issue...
Thailand’s Department of Intellectual Property (DIP), together with the Federation of Thai Industries, held its first practical briefing on partial design protection around 9 July 2026 as part of the country’s domestic preparations for joining the Hague Agreement. The proposed framework would allow applicants to claim protection for a specific visible part of a product by combining solid and dotted lines, rather than having to rely on the novelty of the product’s overall appearance.If implemented as outlined, the change should make design filings more adaptable for smartphone interfaces,...
