Legal Update

2016 Legal Guide to Thailand

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Legal Update

AMENDMENT ON TRADEMARK ACT IN 2016

After the Thai Government had spent many years working to overhaul the country’s Trademark Act to comply with the Madrid Protocol’s myriads of rules and regulation as well as to modernize Thai trademark law and practice, finally, in April 2016 the Thai Trademark Act No. 3 B.E. 2559 was enacted into law. The amended Trademark […]

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LIBERALIZATION OF LIST 3 TO FOREIGN BUSINESS ACT – MAJORITY FOREIGN OWNERSHIP IN CERTAIN BUSINESS ACTIVITIES NOW OPEN TO FOREIGNERS

Under Thailand’s Foreign Business Act of 1999 (“FBA”), certain business activities of foreigners are prohibited. FBA categorizes prohibited businesses into 3 categories.  First category is strictly prohibited to foreigners whereas the second and third categories are restricted unless a foreign business license or foreign business certificate has been obtained from authorized government authorities. On July […]

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NEW LEGISLATION ON ANTI-CIRCUMVENTION AS AMENDMENT TO ANTI-DUMPING ACT

After repeated complaints by various Thailand’s domestic industries on imports subject to anti-dumping (“AD”) duty which circumvented or may have circumvented the existing measures, Thai government will finally enact new legislation on anti-circumvention (“AC”) which was given a green light by the Cabinet in August 2016. The gist of this new legislation is that during […]

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