The ASEAN IPR SME Helpdesk takes a look ahead towards the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) in 2015. Is this the beginning of a new era for foreign companies in Southeast Asia or business as usual?
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Myanmar: New trade mark law coming soon!
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Myanmar has taken its first real steps towards establishing a concrete system of protecting intellectual property rights (IPR). The country’s trade mark Law is now being drafted and reviewed, and is due to take effect during the first quarter of 2014. The Myanmar Intellectual Property Office will also be set up and will soon be able to accept and register applications for trade mark registration. Looking ahead, regional ASEAN IPR SME Helpdesk Expert Darani Vachanavuttivong suggests that these developments will assure foreign investors in the country that their brands will now receive trade mark protection in line with international standards. To read more about Darani’s commentary on Myanmar’s emerging IP regime and practical information about the registration process, click here.
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Indonesia: registration for .id domain names NOW Open!
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The latest on Indonesian Internet domain names courtesy of our expert Mariana Maia of Thomsen Trampedach!
On Monday 20th January the operator of the Indonesian top-level domain .ID, Perkumpulan Pengelola Nama Domain Internet Indonesia (PANDI), opened registration for second-level domains under the .id domain (such as asean.id). Second-level domain names are seen as more attractive because they are shorter and easier to type (compared to asean.co.id, for instance), thus brands operating in Indonesia will be keen to register for increased visibility and protection of their biz online.
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Due Diligence in China – Back to Basics
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We welcome old time collaborators and office neighbours the EU SME Centre, as one of our new blog contributors! Here’s their first blog post on due diligence in China:
European companies, both large and small, tend to be familiar with exercising due diligence, i.e. the checks performed to assess a potential business partner’s trust- and creditworthiness. With more than 24 million small and medium Enterprises (SMEs) active in the 28 Member States, dealing with each other on a daily basis, and over one quarter of those SMEs active internationally (importing, exporting, or both), one might assume that European SMEs are well prepared to venture into the Chinese market., However, this is commonly not the case; doing business in China for the first time is likely to be different to any other experiences a European company has had for a number of reasons.
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Doing Business in Myanmar: Part 1 – Challenges & Opportunities
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Your IP Insider has been on the road recently, in fact, it’s been more of a voyage of discovery…. The subject? Myanmar.
Political and civil unrest have kept this country in almost complete isolation for decades but with the success of the National League for Democracy in by-elections held in 2012, Myanmar is gradually opening its market to the outside world. We’re going to describe the considerations for doing business in Myanmar in a mini-series of posts starting with part 1 today: The economic situation and challenges & opportunities for European businesses. Continue reading “Doing Business in Myanmar: Part 1 – Challenges & Opportunities” »