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The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) has its seal and initials in English and Thai registered with the Trademark Office, Department of Intellectual Property, as a service mark according to the Trademark Act B.E. 2534 (1991). Consequently, any persons who use the TAT seal and initials without permission from the TAT, including those who imitate the TAT seal and initials, are committing a punishable offence under the Act.
Thus, TAT prohibits the use of the TAT seal and initials without permission from the TAT, or imitation of the TAT seal and initials. If it is found by examination or other means that there are any violators on the account against TAT under the Act, TAT is obliged to consider the pursuit of the case in a court of law. Please be informed accordingly.
Given this 26th day of July 2011
Mr Suraphon Svetasreni
Governor of the Tourism Authority of Thailand |
Penalties under the Trademark Act B.E. 2534 (1991)
Section 108 "Any person who counterfeits a trademark, service mark, certification mark or collective mark registered in Thailand by another person shall be liable to imprisonment not exceeding four years or a fine of not exceeding four hundred thousand Baht or both."
Section 109 "Any person who imitates a trademark, service mark, certification mark or collective mark registered in the Kingdom by another person in order to mislead the public into believing that it is the trademark, service mark, certification mark or collective mark of such other person shall be liable to imprisonment not exceeding two years or a fine of not exceeding two hundred thousand Baht or both." |
