We are pleased to announce that our firm LawPlus Ltd. and our lawyers have been ranked and recommended by The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2021 edition. FIRM RANKING: TIER 2: Intellectual Property TIER 4: Corporate and M&A LAWYER RECOMMENDED: The Legal 500 Asia Pacific comments that “LawPlus Ltd.‘s practice handles the protection of all types… Read More
On 5th January 2021, the Office of the Judiciary issued its Notification on Bail Requests through Information Technology Platform (“Notification”) setting out the requirements and the procedures for submitting online bail requests (“Request”) and appeals related to the Request through the CIOS system by the alleged offender of a criminal offence and the accused in… Read More
Trade Secrets Law of Thailand Kowit Somwaiya, Naddaporn Suwanvajukkasikij, Tong Wang LawPlus Ltd., Thailand … Read More
On 28th August 2020, the Ministry of Commerce of Myanmar (“MOC”) issued Order No. 63/2020 to announce the Soft Opening Period (“SOP”) starting from 1st October 2020 for owners of registered trademarks to refile their trademarks under the Myanmar Trademark Law 2019 (“MTL2019”). As of 31st December 2020, around 26,000 registered marks have been refiled. They were refiled via… Read More
On 28th October 2020, the Ministry of Commerce issued its Newsletter No. 18/2020 on the amendment of the trade service fees for online licensing through Tradenet 2.0, which came into force on 1st November 2020. In order to enable online licensing and related activities, Myanmar Tradenet 2.0 is in place to support the national single… Read More
On 19th November 2020, Internal Revenue Department (“IRD”) issued its notice to alert to the taxpayers to file the annual return on income tax, the salary statement and the commercial tax during the prescribed financial year. 1. The relevant period for preparing the annual tax return is the previous financial year from 1st October 2019… Read More