In January this year, the department held a meeting on amending the Patent Act. In order to expedite the registration process, one of its proposed amendments was to eliminate the current pre-grant objection process (i.e. the 90-day period after the patent application is published in the Thai Patent Gazette), and replace it with a post-grant objection process. Under the latter, a request for objection must be filed with the Patent Office within a prescribed period of time, dating from when the patent was granted.