The Southeast Asian regional grouping known as ASEAN is undoubtedly one of the most dynamic economic regions in the world, attracting significant foreign investments. Made up of ten extremely diverse economies—namely Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Brunei, Vietnam, Laos,…
In celebration of World Intellectual Property Day, Bangladesh IP Forum (BIPF) held a boot camp, “Volunteer for Intellectual Property” (VIP), on May 2, 2017 at the Nabab Nawab Ali Chowdhury Senate Bhaban of University of Dhaka to raise awareness on…
The process to get Geographic Indication (GI) registration of two famous Bangladeshi products, Comilla's dessert Rasmalai and textile Khadi, has started. Comilla Deputy Commissioner Jahangir Alam has said the district administration has chosen the products and started to find their…
Background Myanmar has no devoted law on trademarks. In Myanmar, registration of a trademark is possible through “Declaration of Ownership of Trademark” in the Office of the Registration of Deeds under the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation and Assurances.…
July 1, 2016, was the day when the new Penal Code 2015 came into existence by replacing the then current Penal Code. The new Penal Code brought a number of transformations as far as trademarks and other IP‘s are concerned.…
The government of Nepal is notorious for policy and procedural time wasting as far as providing services to businesses is concerned. The same has resulted in problems for businesses and industries to continue operating in Nepal. Among the several problems…
TYPES OF DESIGNS: Industrial Design: An industrial design means a specific appearance of a product embodied by three-dimensional configurations, lines, colors, or a combination of these elements. Layout-Design: A layout-design of semiconductor integrated circuit (hereinafter referred to as layout-design) means…
Step 1: Filing: Who may apply: Article 86 and 89: Authors who have created inventions with their own efforts and expenses Organizations or individuals who have supplied funs and material facilities to authors in the form of job assignment or…
Vietnam became a member of the TRIPS agreement on January 11th, 2007. Vietnam has a commendable intellectual property (IP) framework which includes several multilateral agreements and other relevant bilateral trade agreements. Having regard to the pace and growth of local…
Bangladesh is a signatory to the Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Agreement under the World Trade Organization (WTO), which came into force in 1995. TRIPS aim at harmonizing the intellectual property laws with most of the world.…