Revised Trademark Examination Manual: Key Points Highlighted

Background

The Trademark Office of Thailand's Department of Intellectual Property (DIP) is making significant, concrete progress in revising the trademark registrar's Trademark Examination Manual, with the aim of bringing Thailand's trademark examination standards into alignment with international standards for trademark examination.

This comes on the heels of the DIP's recent efforts to improve examination standards for patent applications by revising the form for patent office actions to include sufficient reasoning and clarifying details on each instruction (the DIP is also currently working to resolve the lengthy backlog in patent examination and registration by increasing the number of examiners and proposing amendments to patent and design law).