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Market Leading Lawyers

Henry Goh is proud to announce that our Executive Director and Head of Patents, Mr Dave Wyatt together with our Senior In House Legal Counsel, Ms Azlina Aisyah Khalid were recently listed as Malaysia’s Market Leading Lawyers in the 2017 edition of AsiaLaw Leading Lawyers – The Guide to Asia Pacific’s Leading Lawyers.

AsiaLaw Leading Lawyers is the definitive guide to the top practitioners in 24 countries spanning across Asia for an array of diverse legal specialities that include amongst others, Banking & Finance, Capital Markets, Construction and Real Estate, Dispute Resolution as well as Intellectual Property.

It is based on one of the largest surveys of legal professionals where In House Counsels, corporate executives and lawyers at the local, regional and international law firms participated in an online survey late last year. Nominations were then received for those individuals who excelled in their practice based on their work and reputation. Shortlisting of the nominees were then made by the Asialaw research team and thereafter finalized.

Dave’s and Azlina’s recognition as market leading practitioners speaks well for their professionalism and underlines the Firm’s commitment to exceptional client service. We wish to extend our heartiest congratulations to both of them.

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.