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On 18th October 2023, the State Administration Council (SAC) of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar issued its Notification No. 217/2023 to designate 31st October 2023 as the effective date of the In...
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The Myanmar Industrial Design Law (IDL 2019) was passed by the Parliament of the Republic of Union of Myanmar on 30th January 2019. The Ministry of Commerce (MOC) issued the Industrial Design Ru...
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On 13th February, 2024, the Ministry of Commerce (“MOC”) issued its Notification No. 1/2024 to specify the rates of the official fees in Myanmar Kyat (“MMK”) for filing applica...
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Trademark Law 2019
The Trademark Law 2019 (“TML2019”) was passed by the Parliament of the Republic of Union of Myanmar on 30th January 2019. It came into force on a...
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The Union Government established the Central Committee of Intellectual Property (“CCIP”) on 6th March 2020. The CCIP is in charge of creating policies, strategies and projects rel...
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The State Administration Council (SAC) announced 1st April 2023 as the effective date of the Trademark Law 2019 (TML 2019).
The Intellectual Property Department (IPD) allowed re-fi...
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On 11th March 2019, the Patent Law 2019 (“PTL”) was passed by the Union Parliament of Myanmar (“Pyidaungsu Hluttaw”) to provide protection for patents and petty patents. ...
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The State Administration Council issued the SAC Notification No. 82/2023 dated 10th March 2023 to announce that the Myanmar Trademark Law 2019 (“MTL”) will come into force on 1st April 202...
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On 24th March 2023, the Supreme Court of the Union (“SCU”) issued 5 notifications to confer jurisdiction over IPR cases to several courts resulting in these courts being the IPR Courts (&l...
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The State Administration Council (“SAC”) issued the Notification No. 82/2023 on 10th March 2023 to announce that the Myanmar Trademark Law 2019 (“MTL”) would come into force on...
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The MOC Announces the Trademark Registration Rules
The IPA Announces the Official Fee Rates
The DIP Announces the Grand Opening Date
Updated as of 8th April 2023
The State Admini...
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On 1st July 2022, the Ministry of Commence (“MOC”) issued its Notification No. 44/2022 to prescribe 19 official forms in the Myanmar and English languages for trademark matters u...
