Intellectual property, copyright, trademark, patent, infringement, litigation, registration, phuketIntellectual property services

Intellectual property legal services in Phuket (copyright, trademark, and patent), we register the clients’s intellectual property to ensure the clients’s right is fully protected and when necessary, investigate and litigate to defend their IP’s rights from infringers.

Type of Intellectual Property

Intellectual property may define into several categories, the most well-known are copyright, trademark, and patent. Each type has its own distinctive characteristics, definition, and term protections.

Definition

Copyright means the exclusive right upon creative work which its initiated by the creator using his own intellect, knowledge, ability and perseverance.

Trademark means any designs that define the owner’s product or service in the customer’s imagination and understanding of the difference between it and the other product or service.

Patent means an invention or product design that inventors or product designers have the exclusive right to produce goods, distributor of the product which

Term Protections

Copyright; Most copyright will be protected for the lifetime of the creator plus 50 years from the death of the creator on the creative works.

Trademark; the registered trademark, the term protection will be 10 years from the date of registration, the term protection can be renewed for 10 years each time.

Patent; short-term protections of 10 to 20 years on inventions and processes.

Intellectual property rights

A Copyright holder has several exclusive rights especially rights of use, copy, advertising, publication, adveritsing, use permit, trade and transfer one of its right or the whole rights to the other.

A trademark holder has exclusive rights to use it to sell products or services.

The owner of the patent has the right to prohibit others from selling and invention, processes for both commercial and non-commerial seasons that until the patent expires.

Intellectual Property Infringement

Intellectual property infringement means infringes upon exclusive rights by exploit the intellectual property without permission of the right’s holder for example.

Copy rights; makeing an unauthorized copy of a copyright-protected.

Trademark; Using a logo that’s considered too similar to the trademark holder’s.

Patent: creates a goods or service based upon designs and processes that belong to the patent holder.

COPYRIGHT NEWS

The amendment of Copyright Act B.E. 2565 (2022), published by the Government Gazette on February 24, 2022, and which will become effective on August 23, 2022, is the core action of the Thai Government to be in line with the World Intellectual Property Organization Copyright Treaty (WIPO), of which Thailand is presently an official member.

The amendment will affect the internet service providers (ISP) listed below under the principles of notice, takedown, and self-harbor.

  1. intermediary ISP who provides the transmission, networks, and infrastructure.
  2. Caching ISPs who cache infringing activities.
  3. Hosting ISP that provides computer data storage.
  4. Search engines that link to infringing activities.

Good news! For the copyright owner of photographic work, the term of protection for photographic work will be extended from 50 years from the date of authorship to 50 years after the death of the author. However, these additional periods are not applicable to the copyright work that expired before the effective date of the amendment. Read more