12 March, 2020
On 13 January 2020, the Department of Intellectual Property Right under the Ministry of Commerce (“MoC”) issued a Prakas on the procedure of Recordal of License and Franchise Agreement.
The Prakas was issued to implement the Law on Marks, Trade Names and Acts of Unfair Competition and to provide fair competition for investors’ intellectual property right protection in Cambodia in relation to goods or services under a license and franchise agreement.
This Prakas applies to the following:
- recording, the depositing and renewal of the contract licenses and franchise,
- the authorisation to continue running the business on the registered mark; and
- the application of mark registration in the sovereignty of the Kingdom of Cambodia to protect against unfair competition and illegal uses by third parties.
The full article can be found from Zicolaw's site here.
For more information, please contact:
Khieu Mealy, Partner, SokSiphana&associates (a member of ZICO Law)
khieu.mealy@zicolaw.com
