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In early November 2022, a Thai appeals court overruled the Trademark Registrar's decision and the Board of Trademarks' ruling by upholding the registrability of an oil company's...
Waralee Sripawadkul of Tilleke & Gibbins says that the overturning of a decision on a trademark application by ExxonMobil could have a substantial impact in the area of non-traditional marks
Thailand's judiciary is rotten. It is politically biased, engages in acts of double standards, and has been shown to be inhumane in its sentencing. Underneath all of this, it is corrupt, long "protected" by is association with the monarchy. However, a bribery case in the USA and involving Toyota is shining a light on corruption…
U.S. authorities are ramping up their Foreign Corrupt Practices Act investigation of Toyota, with federal prosecutors impaneling a grand jury in Texas as they seek any evidence the carmaker bribed top Thai judges to overturn a $350 million tax judgment, according to a U.S. law enforcement official and documents related to the investigation.
To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. Trademarks that consist of a combination of a generic word and a top-level domain name, such as ".com," are usually regarded as not registrable by trademark registrars. However, recent cases in the United States and in Thailand have proved that this premise is not always valid. In some instances, the combination of a generic word and a domain name only make the mark descriptive, but such a mark may still be registrable if the applicant can prove that it has achieved secondary meaning in tha...