[Malaysia SME] Check It Before You Wreck It!
Common Law Proprietorship: Is Evidence Territorially Restricted?

By Amir Murshidi The established principle of trademarks is that the protection is territorial in nature. Does that mean without a registration, trademark owners do not have rights in a particular country? Yes and no – yes in countries that adopt the “first-to-file” rule while in common law jurisdictions (Malaysia included), owners who use the […]
iInventedthat: Products (Co-)Invented by Steve Jobs

By Joel Cheong On 5 October 2011, the world lost a brilliant visionary and entrepreneur whose legacy includes a half-eaten piece of fruit, a computer animation studio whose mascot hates the letter ‘i’ with a passion, and prohibitively expensive consumer electronics products beginning with the letter ‘i’. Born on 24 February 1955, Steven Paul Jobs […]