DLO released all 6 core Thai Creative Commons License for Public-Hearing

On 18-21 September, 2007, Dharmniti Law Office (DLO) has released all 6 core Thai Creative Commons Licenses, for Thai jurisdiction in Thai language for 1-month public hearing. 6 core Thai Creative Commons Licenses comprise of: Attribution-None-Commercial-share Alike 3.0 Attribution-share Alike 3.0 Attribution-No-Derivs 3.0 Attribution-None-Commercial 3.0 Attribution-share Alike 3.0 Attribution-None-Commercial-No-Derivs 3.0 More details are in Thai language.

DLO and TRN signed MOU with Creative Commons International

On August 21, 2007, Mr.Phichai Phuechmongkol, Managing director of DLO and Mr.Sunit Shrestha, Director of TRNLab, has signed MOU with Dr.Catharina Maracke of Creative Common International (Berlin) to port Creative Common Licenses (CCL) for Thailand jurisdiction. The project should complete within 3 months. This MOU raise Thailand to be the country in the Upcoming Project Jurisdictions on CC website. CCL is provided by CC, to copyright owner around the world to use its free of charge to give or share some right to other people with stipulate for some conditions like attribution, no derivative, non-commercial etc. Creative Commons International (Berlin) is the organization of Creative Commons, the non-profit corporation, to port CCL to other jurisdiction. Dharmniti Law office (DLO) is thai law firm, establiched since 1947 to provide fully legal services for thai and foreigner clients more than 60 years. […]

Legal Actions in Thailand (Part 1)

The Constitution of Royal Kingdom of Thailand B.E. 2540 (1997) has determined to establish the courts to perform the duties in considering the cases by dividing the courts into 4 categories namely The Constitution Court is a court which has a jurisdiction in making a consideration and decision of the problems which concern the constitutional laws. The Administrative Court is a court which has a jurisdiction in making a consideration and judgment of the cases which concern the administrative agreements and the administrative orders. The Military Court is a court which has a jurisdiction in making a consideration and judgment of the military criminal cases and other cases provided by law. The Court of Justice is a court which has a jurisdiction in making a consideration and judgment of all civil and criminal cases except the cases which the constitution […]

Significant Characters of Marks for Commercial Use

For business operation, nowadays trademarks are used as business symbol to convey to the consumers to recognize the products, origin of products and the owner of products. As times go by, trademarks are widely used for other interests. They are used to communicate the image or the value of business organizations who are the owners of such trademarks as well as communicate status and taste of the consumers who use those trademark products or services. World Intellectual Property Organization has placed the importance of trademarks in playing a significant role in macroeconomics to show the origin and technology for consumers’ creditability. In addition, trademarks play an important role as marketing strategies of business organizations, for example, the use of trademark in promotional advertising and hinder an effort of unfair competitions, market shares expansion and maintenance, product differentiation, new product launch, […]