Intellectual property articles
Intellectual property articles are 6 AIPDPA pieces that quote Thai law word for word and say what organisations must do. They suit DPOs, legal teams and business owners, who get answers with the legal text and links to read further.
Intellectual property
Intellectual propertyAn NDA That Actually Protects Your Trade Secrets
Signing an NDA does not by itself protect the information. Thailand's Trade Secrets Act protects only information its owner keeps secret by appropriate measures, and some things can be barred only if the contract says so expressly.
Intellectual propertyRegister Your Trademark Before You Launch: Thai Law Rewards the First Filer
You have the name, the logo, the printed boxes and the ad budget, but no filing yet. Thailand's Trademark Act gives exclusive rights to the registered owner and dates those rights from the day the application was filed.
Intellectual propertyAn Employee Quits and Takes the Customer List and Source Code: What Can the Company Do?
Thailand's Trade Secrets Act protects only information the company actually kept secret. The PDPA then asks how the company let customer data walk out the door. The same set of controls answers both questions.
Intellectual propertyUsing Photos, Articles and Music From the Web on a Company Site: Where Thai Copyright Law Bites
The photo you found on Google, the article you condensed, the trending track under your clip, the screenshot from someone else's page: all of them have an owner. A credit line is not a licence, and removing a watermark is a separate offence.
Intellectual propertyWho owns work made with AI under Thai copyright law?
Marketing teams use AI for ad images and captions every day, yet few ask whether that work is protected at all, and if so whether it belongs to the employee, the company, the agency or no one. Thailand's Copyright Act answers some of this. Much of it remains open.
Intellectual propertyOutsourced Software in Thailand: Who Owns the Copyright?
Paying in full and receiving the files does not make the software yours. Thai copyright law treats commissioned work and employee work in opposite ways, and an assignment that forgets to state a term may last only ten years.
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Written by the AIPDPA legal team · Content owner: Phuwara Krobtaku, Attorney-at-law · Thai Barrister-at-Law · technology & intellectual property counsel
Lawyer's licence no. 477/2558 · Thai Barrister-at-Law · LL.M. in Intellectual Property & IT Law (Gold Medal)