South-East Asia

The European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) organised an Advanced Training Programme on Patent Search and Examination of Computer-Implemented Inventions (CII) in collaboration with the European Patent Office (EPO). The programme, which was organised in the context of the IP Key South-East Asia Project and took place from 7 to 11 October 2024, followed a ‘train-the-trainer’ approach and involved 20 senior patent examiners from Indonesia’s Directorate General of Intellectual Property (DGIP) and the Intellectual Property Corporation of Malaysia (MyIPO).

The European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), responsible for craft and industrial geographical indications (GIs) in the EU and an international registration authority for GIs, has been actively involved in the legal aspects of GIs since 2018 and maintains GIview, the most comprehensive searchable database for GIs, which will soon include craft and industrial products.

The European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) is an international GI registration authority and leads the EU’s international cooperation on intellectual property rights, including geographical indications. The EUIPO was recently entrusted with managing the registration of craft and industrial GIs at EU level, the first applications can be filed from 1 December 2025 on. In addition, the EUIPO has developed the most comprehensive searchable database for GIs: GIview, which will soon include craft and industrial products.

The European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), in the context of IP Key South-East Asia (IP Key SEA), an EU-funded project, in partnership with the Department of Intellectual Property (DIP), Ministry of Commerce, will organise the Geographical Indications Exhibition: Promoting Rural Development and Tourism from 1 to 6 October 2024 at the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC).