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Malaysia
Patent Registration is under the Patent Act1983 & the Patents Regulations
1986 Protection. Malaysia patent laws are WTO/TRIPS compatible, while Malaysia
is a member of industry and the Patent Cooperation Treaty of Paris. Malaysia
joined the Patent Cooperation Treaty in 2006, starting from August 16, 2006;
the international application may be made to the Patent Cooperation Treaty
Malaysia intellectual property company (MyIPO).
Residences
in Malaysia may apply directly; foreign applicants must submit an application
through a registered patent representative. Just as the laws of other
countries, if an invention is novel and involves an inventive step and can be
used in industry, can be patented. According to the TRIPS Agreement, patent law
provides patent protection for 20 years from the date of the application. Under
the law, innovation certificates offer initial protection for ten years, from
the date of application, protection can be updated for two consecutive periods,
each lasting for five years, subject to being exploited.
According
to the TRIPS Agreement, in the context of compulsory licensing, the Patent Act
permits have been sold in the markets of other countries into Malaysia
(parallel imports). Government can be banned on grounds of ordre public or
morality for the commercial exploitation of the patent. The law was revised to
accommodate the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT), as well as allowing entrance
to the compulsory license within the scope of. If you want more detail
regarding Patent, please refer to: Malaysia Patent Registration Requirements
& Malaysia Patent Registration Advantages
Two types of grant of the patent:
1.
Involves inventive step
The
invention must be novel, there must be an evolutionary step, and must be
industrially applicable. Patent protection is 20 years from the date of
submission of applications.
2.
Certificate of practical innovation
Are
generally the same, only without the creativity standard patent is necessary.
Excluded inventions
In
addition, an invention will not be patentable if it falls within any of the
following categories of excluded subject-matter:
1.
Discoveries, scientific theories and mathematical methods.
2.Plant
or animal varieties or essentially biological processes for the production of
plants or animals, other than man made living micro-organisms, microbiological
processes and the products of such
microbiological processes;
3.
Schemes, rules or methods of doing business, performing purely mental acts or
playing games; and
4.
Methods for the treatment of human or animal body by surgery or therapy, and
diagnostic methods practiced on the human or animal body (although products
used in any such methods are patentable).
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