Dr Noppanun Supasiripongchai (Thailand) Bachelor of law (LLB.), Bangkok University;
Master of law (LLM.) in Commercial Law, Monash University; Master of Law (LL.M.) in Intellectual
Property Law, Australian National University; Doctor of Philosophy (PhD.) in Intellectual Property Law,
University of Edinburgh; WIPO-WTO Colloquium for Teachers of Intellectual Property Certificate
2011; Member of the Lawyers Council of Thailand; Member of the Thai Bar Association; Director of the
Centre for Intellectual Property and Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (CIPSME) and Lecturer in IP
Law at Law School, University of Phayao, Thailand; I deeply thank the Academic Editorial Team at the
WTO and Professor Hector MacQueen at the University of Edinburgh for their valuable comments on this
article, but am alone responsible for errors of fact, law and opinion contained therein. I can be reached by
e-mail at noppanun.su@up.ac.th, or noppanun@hotmail.com