Authorities Launch Enforcement Actions Against Counterfeits

Reinvigorated intellectual property enforcement efforts by Thai authorities in 2012, in the aftermath of the flood crisis last year, have already reaped great success and led to the possible disbandment of a major forgery ring on the eastern seaboard.

In 2011, there was a slowdown in total raid actions undertaken and the quantity of fake goods seized in Thailand, with a reduction from about 6,000 cases resulting in the seizure of 4.6 million products in 2010, to about 5,900 cases and 2.65 million seized goods in 2011. This reduction can be attributed to the flood crisis that stalled anticounterfeiting activities for much of the last quarter, and the fact that counterfeiters are moving from the streets to cyberspace to peddle their illegal goods.