Department hopes to slash time taken for approval
The Intellectual Property Department is planning to develop an e-Patent system, allowing individuals and companies to apply for patent protection or access information on intellectual property rights via the Internet.
The director of the department's Patent Office, Seksant Boonsuwan said the e-Patent system would help the department keep documents on patents and petty patents in document image processing and image data entry form, and on digital files, so that it could provide e-services to the public and speed up access to information.