IP Fair next week to showcase innovative products, services

The IP Fair, organised under the concept “Innovation for Life and Living: Smart Living Food, Health and Wellness”, will take place from August 11 to 14 at Plenary Hall, Queen Sirikit National Convention Centre, Bangkok.
Nuntawan Sakuntanaga, director-general of the DIP, said exhibits would cover an area of more than 5,000 square metres. The event will be participated in by more than 200 enterprises from both the government and private sectors, small and medium-sized enterprises, and start-up entrepreneurs.
“The Intellectual Property Department is one of the major agencies supporting the ‘Thailand 4.0’ policy, which aims to drive the country’s growth through innovation, creativity, technology, and the use intellectual-property rights for developing products and services.
“The IP Fair 2016 will provide a great opportunity and inspire innovators, owners of IP rights, and modern entrepreneurs to develop their products and services for commercialisation, as well as be a platform for business negotiation, registering IP rights, and using those rights as guarantee assets for doing businesses,” she said.
Nuntawan added that the event would include an exhibition, seminars, and programmes to educate innovators and enterprises about IP rights.
At the event, various themes will be exhibited in different zones.
The IP of the King and Royal Family’s Exhibition will showcase copyrights held by Their Majesties the King the Queen and other members of the Royal Family.
Another zone will showcase the procedures for retrieving and analysing patent information.
The IP Champion Zone will showcase successful innovations that can be developed for commercialisation and have been named IP Champions for 2015 and 2016.
Many innovative products and services will be shown at the IP Fair, such as Dinsow, a robot to help elderly people, IceDEA, a server that offers “ideas in ice cream”, and luggage that can charge mobile-phone batteries, a Teddy House, a product champion in copy right 2016.
Nuntawan said the department was confident that the IP Fair would offer marketing channels and inspire innovators, creators, and owners of copyrighted products and services, as well as inform people about IP rights.