By Sajjaratul Yaqeen
As a business owner, you may encounter copycats who create a trademark that bears a striking resemblance to your own registered trademark. When faced with such situations, what do you do? What action can you take?
Intellectual Property
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By Sajjaratul Yaqeen
As a business owner, you may encounter copycats who create a trademark that bears a striking resemblance to your own registered trademark. When faced with such situations, what do you do? What action can you take?
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By Jasmine Lim
You won’t usually think about this, but we think in a language.
For most, that language is most likely their mother tongue. For others, it is the language that they grew up with (that’s why non-English people can be native English speakers).
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The KASS team recently welcomed Kavinarasi, an enthusiastic and resourceful intern from Malaysia!
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RM300,000 (USD65,000) worth of unregistered medical devices were seized by the Medical Device Authority of Malaysia recently. Among the unregistered medical devices were face masks, pregnancy test kits, first aid kits, blood lancets and gauze. The medical devices had not been registered under the Medical Devices Act 2012. The Ministry of Health is to take legal action against the importer and distributor of the devices.
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By Linh Nguyen
As one of the world’s most dynamic emerging regions, the ASEAN region has achieved notable success in capturing the attention of other nations worldwide in terms of investment opportunities and economic development. ASEAN has nurtured comprehensive cooperation in politics, economics, society, and culture through the establishment of policies, collaborative platforms, training, and research facilities that serve the collective interests of its member states.
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By Kavinarasi Thavanendran
Budding business owners know that registering their trademark is an essential move in order to protect their brand. But they shouldn’t get complacent, because nothing is permanent! In the case of Oatly AB v Pahang Pharmacy Sdn Bhd (2022), the premise is simple: Use it or lose it.
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By Ngan Pham
An invention is the creation of a product or a process that provides, in general, a new way of doing something or a new technical solution to an existing problem, that involves enormous intellectual and financial investment. Thus, to reward innovators and stimulate R&D activities and technological innovation, patent law grants them exclusive monopoly over the patented invention, which means giving the owners the right to legally prevent third parties, for a limited period of time, from making, using or selling the invention without their consent.
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By Kavinarasi Thavanendran
An amendment to Section 2 of the Promotion and Investment Act 1986 (“PIA 1986”) altered the definition of “Contract R&D Company” and “R&D Company” in Malaysia. According to PIA 1986:
Contract R&D Company means, “a company which provides R&D services in Malaysia only to companies other than its related companies and approved as an R&D Status Company.”