Over the last few years, there have been a number of reported High Court decisions on issues relating to licensing and ownership of intellectual property in Malaysia. This article is about a trade mark licensing dispute.
Playboy Enterprises International, Inc. v Zillion Choice Sdn Bhd & Anor ([2011] 2 MLJ 59) ... Read More
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The above statement was recently pronounced by a full quorum of the Federal Court’s panel of 5 judges with regard to the role of the Trade Mark Registrar as a party to a rectification or cancellation action. In Malaysia, a cancellation action against a registered trade mark is a legal ... Read More
Legislative changes to the Singapore patents law on 14 February 2014 introduced a new procedure known as Supplementary Examination to the foreign route prosecution option where reliance on final results of search and examination of certain foreign or international applications was possible subject to requirements being satisfied.
In effort to further ... Read More
The Tobacco Plain Packaging Act 2011 in Australia has set in motion a global debate. The Australian Act mandates that the design of tobacco products and their packaging be standardized so that only the brand name can be retained in a standard typeface, colour and size i.e. in plain white ... Read More
The Opponent, Polo/Lauren Company, L.P., filed an opposition in the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore against the trade mark application made by United States Polo Association in Class 09 on 17 October 2012 for a “double-polo-playing-horsemen-device” with the text “USPA” (“the Application Mark”), by relying inter alia on Section 7(6) ... Read More