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Asialaw Award

It is with great pride that we announce our Executive Director and Head of Patent and Industrial Design, Mr Dave A Wyatt together with our Senior Legal Counsel, Ms Azlina Aisyah Khalid have once again made the cut in the Asialaw Leading Lawyers publication.

Asialaw Leading Lawyers features prominent practitioners in 18 practice areas across 24 jurisdictions in the Asia-Pacific region. The publication is the result of an extensive online survey of in-house counsel and private practitioners, who can nominate up to three lawyers they believe should be in the publication and give reasons why. Thereafter the nominations are analysed and screened for firm, network and alliance bias, and these individuals are further divided into three categories of market leading, leading and rising star. Dave and Azlina are listed as Market Leading Lawyers in Intellectual Property.

We are proud of their achievements and hope this accolade places the Firm on track in continuing to provide excellent client services.

Malaysia joins the Madrid Protocol

 

The wait is finally over! On 27 September 2019, Malaysia deposited with WIPO its instrument of accession to the Madrid Protocol, becoming the 106th member of the Madrid System.

The Protocol will take effect for the country on 27 December 2019. From that date, local brand owners in Malaysia can begin making use of the international registration system to protect their trademarks in over 120 territories of the System’s other 105 (currently) members by filing a single international application and paying a single set of fees.

Likewise, foreign trademark owners can take advantage of the System’s simple designation process to seek protection here.

Malaysia has made declarations to extend the refusal period to 18 months, to receive individual fees, to require a declaration of intention to use the mark and to mandate that the recording of licenses in the International Register shall have no effect in Malaysia unless recorded here.

Stay tuned for more updates from us as we close the year 2019.