Myanmar recently passed the Myanmar’s Trademark Law
(“TML”) providing a codified framework
for the protection of trademarks in the country. Myanmar till date
did not have special laws specifically dealing with intellectual
property, hence the newly enacted law (Myanmar recently also passed
a new patent legislation) has paved way to a plethora of changes to
Myanmar’s IP framework, making IP protection more formal and
uniform.
Earlier, the process of recording ownership of trademarks in
Myanmar was vested with the general law of registration of
properties and the registration of trademarks was governed by the
common statute for registration of properties i.e. the Deeds
Registration Law 2018. With the advent of the new law related to
trademarks, Myanmar Intellectual Property Office
(“MIPO”) will be established which
shall execute a formal trademarks registration process. Aligning
itself with the global trend, Myanmar will now shift from a
‘first-to-use system’ for
