Promoting IP Awareness
Promoting IP Awareness
Promoting IP Awareness
Promoting IP Awareness

Promoting IP Awareness

As part of Henry Goh’s ongoing and continuous efforts in promoting Intellectual Property Rights to the Malaysian public, an IP seminar was held at Taylor’s University’s lakeside campus on 06 April 2016. The attendees were mainly the University’s academic staff where the objective was to impart to them some basic working knowledge on the various intellectual property rights that were available for protection in Malaysia.

The Firm was represented by our Registered Patent Agents Ms. Shiela Ho and Mr. Alvin Boey as well as our Legal Counsel, Mr. Lim Eng Leong. Shiela was the first speaker who presented a paper on Patent filing and registration whilst Alvin spoke on Industrial Designs. Eng Leong completed the seminar by sharing his knowledge on Trademarks and Copyright matters.

In all, the seminar was well attended and the speakers were well received. There was an interactive Q&A session where a lot of questions were asked by the audience.
Henry Goh is proud to be able to contribute to the academic world and looks forward to organising similar events for other Universities and research institutions.

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.