Malaysia joined Madrid Protocol – The International Trademark System – on 27 December 2019. Let’s review how the system can benefit trademark owners. BACKGROUND Before…
It may be an opportune time to revisit the saga between Tan Kim Hock Tong Seng Food Industry Sdn Bhd (‘TKHTS’) and Tan Kim Hock…
On 31 March 2022, Malaysia deposited the instrument of ratification at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Headquarters in Geneva and officially acceded to the…
The long-awaited Patents (Amendment) Act 2022 together with the implementing Regulations has finally come into force on 18 March 2022. After more than a decade…
One of the notable new provisions that was encapsulated in the recently enforced Trademarks Act 2019 is the concept of ‘registrable transactions.’ In brief, registrable…
Pursuing patent protection for computer software related inventions have always been complicated affairs. Notwithstanding the substantial differing substantive requirements employed by different patent jurisdictions from…