The newly minted Malaysian Trademarks Act 2019, enforced since 27 December 2019 gives a breath of fresh air for well-known trademark owners. Protection for this category was first introduced in 2001 when the now repealed Trade Marks Act 1976 was…
As part of Singapore’s continuous commitment to regularly review its intellectual property regimes to ensure that they are progressive and world-class, Singapore has signed and acceded to the Locarno Agreement Establishing an International Classification for Industrial Designs on 19 December…
The law of copyright is based on the principle that anyone who, by his or her own skill and labour, creates an original work shall enjoy the exclusive right to copy that work. Anyone who copies the created work without…
In a rare though welcome reversal, the Federal Court in Merck Sharp & Dohme & Anor v Hovid Berhad ([2019] 9 CLJ 1) has over-ruled its earlier authority on the effect of invalidation of an independent claim of a patent on the…
Earlier this year in a decision for Sunseap Group Pte Ltd & 2 Ors v Sun Electric Pte Ltd [2019] SGCA 4 (hereafter “Sunseap”)—a case between two Singapore based solar power companies—the Court of Appeal ruled that a High Court…
On 27 September 2019, Malaysia deposited the instrument of accession and became the 106th member country of the Madrid Protocol System. Prior to the said date, Malaysia was one of the two remaining ASEAN countries that still had not acceded…