THAILANDSICThailand Standard Industrial Classification

TSIC Activity

77400

Leasing of intellectual property and similar products, except copyrighted works

ประกอบธุรกิจแฟรนไชส์ รวมถึงการให้สิทธิและให้ใช้ช่วงสิทธิแฟรนไชส์ การขยายแฟรนไชส์ การอนุญาตให้ใช้ชื่อทางการค้า เครื่องหมายการค้า และทรัพย์สินทางปัญญาอื่น ๆ ตลอดจนการจัดการและบริหารทรัพย์สินทางปัญญา ระบ

Definition

The activity of licensing products that contain intellectual property and similar products to others, by paying a license fee or royalties to the product owner (the asset holder). Operating leases of these assets can take many forms, such as permission to reproduce, use as part of the process or further production, conduct business under a franchise, etc., where the current owner may or may not have invented these products, including leasing products that contain intellectual property (except for copyrighted works such as books or software), receiving royalties or license fees for the use of, for example, patented items, trademarks or service names, mineral exploration and evaluation concessions, agreements to do business under the right to be a distributor (leasing of concession rights).

Excluded from this code

  • Acquisition of rights and publication, distribution or dissemination, see subsections 58 and 59.
  • Production, reproduction and distribution of copyrighted goods (e.g. books, software, films, etc.), see subsections 58 and 59.
  • Real estate rentals, see Village No. 681
  • Leasing of tangible assets, see Sections 771, 772 and 773.
  • Renting of video tapes and discs, see subclass 7722.
  • Book rental, see sub-category 7729

Foreign ownership

Not on the Foreign Business Act restricted lists.

The Foreign Business Act B.E. 2542 (1999) restricts majority foreign ownership only for the activities named in its three annexed Lists. This activity is not among the mappings we hold, so a foreign investor can generally hold up to 100% of the equity, subject to any sector-specific licence and to minimum-capital rules (typically THB 2 million per restricted business, or THB 3 million where a Foreign Business Licence applies).

If an activity is restricted, the routes to foreign majority

  • BOI promotion — the Board of Investment can grant up to 100% foreign ownership for promoted activities, with tax and non-tax incentives.
  • Foreign Business Licence — permission from the Ministry of Commerce to operate a List 2 or List 3 activity as a foreign-majority company.
  • US Treaty of Amity — US nationals may hold majority ownership in most activities, treated as Thai nationals for FBA purposes.

This is general guidance, not legal advice, and mappings are auto-derived. The schedules of the Foreign Business Act B.E. 2542 are the authority; verify against the Act, or ask us to check your specific activity. See the full foreign ownership reference.

See the full foreign ownership reference for all three FBA lists.

Companies registered since 2022

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New DBD registrations under this activity since 2022, the period the registry snapshot covers, not the full historical register.

318
Registered
since 2022
289
Still active
29
Dissolved
฿1.0M
Median capital
of active

New registrations per year

2022peak 100 in 20242026

Largest active companies by registered capital

Source: Department of Business Development (DBD) new-registration records, 2022 to present. Counts cover companies first registered in that window, reflect the latest snapshot load, and may lag the live register.

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