Lend Us Your Ears – Tune In To BFM 89.9, The Business Station

Be sure to catch us on BFM’s “Toolkit” every Monday, 1pm – 2pm from 11th May to 8thJune, 2009. Whether you think Intellectual Property has nothing or everything to do with you, you’ll want to tune in. You’ll learn to recognize the various valuable intellectual assets that you or your businesses possess and what you can do to […]

Non-Traditional Marks in Malaysia

The Intellectual Property Corporation of Malaysia (MyIPO) has informed the public that it intends to widen the scope of trademarks recognized under the Trade Marks Act 1976 in Malaysia by including Non-traditional Trademarks (NTMs) in three years time. NTMs are basically new types of trademarks which do not belong to the pre-existing or conventional category […]

No Two Patents Are the Same

What makes a good patent description? Can you be certain that your patent specification has what it takes to protect your invention / innovation sufficiently or to obtain a patent? Read about the dangers of drafting a patent description based solely on the information given by the inventor / researcher : No_Two_Patents_Are_The_Same.pdf

National Intellectual Property Award 2009

In conjunction with National Intellectual Property Day 2009, the Intellectual Property Corporation of Malaysia (MyIPO) will be conferring the National Intellectual Property Award (AHIN) as recognition for inventors/creators on the contribution of their intellectual property to the country’s socio-economic development. The four (4) categories of awards are as follows: