JIPA Training Course | Osaka, Japan
JIPA Training Course | Osaka, Japan
JIPA Training Course | Osaka, Japan
JIPA Training Course | Osaka, Japan

JIPA Training Course | Osaka, Japan

The firm’s Executive Director and Head of Patents, Mr Dave A Wyatt together with Ms Azlina Aisyah Khalid, Senior Legal Counsel were recently in Osaka from 29 September 2016 until 01 October 2016. Invited by the Japan Intellectual Property Association (JIPA) for the purpose of training its members under the Overseas Training F7 ASEAN Course, both presented papers on the Malaysian IP System. Dave gave a comprehensive view on the patent system and its recent developments whilst Azlina covered IP legal issues and trade marks. Their papers were well received by the attendees who came from various parts of Japan which included Tokyo, Yokohama, Nagoya and Osaka. Come November these attendees will visit Malaysia to complete their training course.

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.