Organisation: World Intellectual Property Organization

Featured in The Trademark Prosecution Review 2025

There are several key aspects of Thailand’s registration process that rights holders need to know, from the first-to-file system to renewals. One crucial element is that examiners often consider abbreviated marks to be non-distinctive; the same goes for captions or descriptions of goods or services.

06 September 2024

New research highlights how intellectual property can be used to drive economic growth.

02 May 2024

Featured in The Trademark Prosecution Review 2024

Several challenges arise when it comes to maintaining a multi-jurisdictional trademark portfolio. Rights holders should be aware of the pitfalls and implement robust solutions to avoid them.

22 September 2023

A major new study into perceptions of intellectual property has revealed that two-thirds of consumers have a positive view of the role that intellectual property plays in their economy.

15 September 2023

The number of new Chinese brands leading the way in global protection exceeds the number of US brands adopting a similar strategy, according to the first ever Clarivate Top 100 New Brands report.

30 June 2022

The recent judgment of the Zambian registrar of trademarks in Sigma-Tau Industrie Farmaceutiche Riunite v Amina Limited deals with the vexed question of whether international registrations are actually valid in Zambia.

08 November 2019

A UDRP case involving the domain name ‘ᴍx.com’ illustrates that targeting is crucial in order to prove bad faith - and the shorter the domain name, the more difficult this is to prove.

30 October 2019

A recent UDRP decision involving the domain name ‘aizel.com’ highlights the importance of proving bad faith at the time of registration of a domain name, especially when the complainant’s trademark did not yet exist at that time.

14 October 2019

A WIPO panel has refused to order the transfer of the domain name ‘solothurn.com’ because the complainants – three entities related to the Swiss city of Solothurn – had failed to establish the first element under the UDRP.

09 October 2019

WIPO has recently announced that its Arbitration and Mediation Centre has been appointed by the Cyberspace Administration of China to administer domain name disputes under ‘.cn’ and ‘.中国’, the ccTLDs for China. 

02 October 2019