Trademarks protect the brand name of a product and associate that product with the company supplying it. Trade Marks can be protected under the Malaysia Trade Marks Act 1976.

Patents are exclusive rights granted under Malaysia Patents Act 1983. Once a patent is granted, it excludes others from making, using or selling the claimed invention.

Intellectual Property Malaysia

Intellectual property Malaysia, also known as (IP) refers to creations of the mind: inventions, literary and artistic works, and symbols, names, images, and designs used in commerce. Intellectual property is divided into two categories:

Industrial property, which includes inventions (patents), trademarks, industrial designs, and geographic indications of source;
Copyright, which includes literary and artistic works such as novels, poems and plays, films, musical works, artistic works such as drawings, paintings, photographs and sculptures, and architectural designs. Rights related to copyright include those of performing artists in their performances, producers of phonograms in their recordings, and those of broadcasters in their radio and television programs.

The innovations and creative expressions of indigenous and local communities are also Intellectual Property, yet because they are traditional they may not be fully protected by existing Intellectual Property systems. Access to, and equitable benefit-sharing in, genetic resources also raise Intellectual Property questions. Normative and capacity-building programs are underway at WIPO to develop balanced and appropriate legal and practical responses to these issues.

We are a Malaysian specialist intellectual property firm. Our qualified Registered Patent Agent, Registered Trade Mark Agent and Registered Industrial Design Agent can help you make the right decisions about your intellectual property assets. We work to help clients in securing and protecting their intellectual property assets in Malaysia and over 160 countries.
Our professionals come from a diverse range of backgrounds and disciplines including Law, Science and Engineering.
We are advantageously located in Kuala Lumpur, not far from Intellectual Property Corporation of Malaysia (MyIPO).

Trademarking & Patent in Malaysia

What is Patent Malaysia? A patent is a document issued by the government office which describes the invention and creates a legal situation in which the patented invention can normally only be exploited (made, used, sold, imported) by or with the authorization of the patentee.
An invention is a novel idea which permits in practice the solution of a specific problem in the field of technology. Under most legislations concerning inventions, the idea, in order to be protected by law PATENTABLE, must be new in the sense that is has not already been published or publicly used, it must be "non-obvious" in the sense that it would not have occurred to any specialist in the particular industrial fields, had such a specialist been asked to find a solution to the particular problem and it must be "applicable in industry" in the sense that it can be industrially manufactured or used.

What can be Patented in Malaysia

An invention, which may be either a product or process, may be patented so long as it fulfills the following requirements:

It is new;
It involves an inventive step;
It is industrially applicable

However, there are some inventions which are excluded from patentability under Malaysian law, such as discoveries, scientific theories, mathematical models, and methods for doing business. A full list of exclusions can be found in the Patents Act 1983.