August 25, 2016
One of the main rules of trademark registration in Thailand is that a trademark must not be identical or similar to a prior-registered mark. This is not, however, an absolute rule—exceptions exist in cases where the use of trademarks that are similar to marks owned by different proprietors does not cause public confusion, or cases where the owner of a prior-registered mark has given written consent to the owner of a later-filed, confusingly similar mark.