ArisePlusIPR

ARISE+ IPR supports the creation of an ASEAN IPR helpdesk, which coincides with one of the ASEAN IPR Action Plan 2016-2025’s strategic goals. The project and its stakeholders have envisaged the ASEAN IPR Helpdesk as a one-stop online service that will assist trade mark and design applicants filing applications in any ASEAN Member State (AMS).

As agreed by the ASEAN Working Group on Intellectual Property Cooperation (AWGIPC) in November 2018, ARISE+ IPR will conduct this feasibility study on setting up an ASEAN trade mark registration system. The project will engage with senior legal experts, who will provide the legal, institutional, and administrative analysis of the ASEAN Member States’ (AMS) national trade mark systems combined with a comparative analysis of regional trade mark systems.

Under the ECAP III Phase II Project (2015), the reference search tool ‘ASEAN IP Case Law’ was developed for officials from the ASEAN IP institutions and judiciary. Currently, the database consists of 151 IP decisions from Indonesia, Myanmar, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand.

Under this Activity, the ARISE+ IPR project is helping to add new case-law to the database, provide English translations of the case-law summaries and make the database available and easily accessible to the public.

Currently, nine ASEAN countries have already become members of the Madrid Protocol. Malaysia joined the Madrid Protocol in December 2019 being is the newest member of the Madrid Protocol amongst ASEAN. Myanmar is the only ASEAN Member State that has not yet become member of the Madrid Protocol. 

Within the framework of Annual Work Plan 3-2020, ARISE+ IPR provided legal and technical support for the elaboration of an ‘Evaluation study on the accession and recommendations on the implementation of the Geneva Act of the Lisbon Agreement on Appellations of Origin and Geographical Indications.’ The evaluation study aimed to assist ASEAN Member States (AMSs) interested in acceding to the Geneva Act in the pre-accession preparation and post-accession implementation.

During the first and second year of the project implementation, ARISE+ IPR has organised many activities to promote Geographical Indications (GI) protection and empower GI producers and associations in the ASEAN region.

ARISE+ IPR joined the IP Fair 2020 on 15-16 September at Centara Grand at Central Plaza Ladprao in Bangkok, Thailand. The two-day event was organised by the Department of Intellectual Property of Thailand (DIP) to showcase recent Thai innovation, celebrate award-winning IP-intensive products, and give businesses and dialogue partners from local and international institutions opportunities to create meaningful conversations.