Intellectual Property
Compliance & Registration
The services of Skrine’s IP & IT Practice encompass all aspects of intellectual property laws and practice – from the inception/creation of an intellectual property right to the proper management, maintenance and enforcement of that right. We provide compliance, registration and renewal services for the protection of trade marks, industrial designs and patents under the respective statutory enactments.Our team of lawyers handling matters relating to IP compliance, registration and renewals offer the following services:
Trade Marks
- Preparing and prosecuting trade mark applications in Malaysia and internationally
- Conducting availability searches
- Advising on registrability and selection of trade marks
- Providing trade mark watch services
- Renewing registrations for trade marks
- Cancelling or opposing grant of registrations
- Licensing of trade marks
- Advising on acquisition and assignment of trade marks
- Providing due diligence and audit of trade marks
- Arranging for market investigations to detect counterfeit and pirated products
- Recording amendments to trademarks including change of name or address
Industrial Designs
- Preparing and prosecuting design innovation applications in Malaysia and through associates in other countries
- Conducting availability searches
- Advising on registrability of designs
- Renewing registrations for designs
- Initiating the invalidation of a design
- Advising and drafting licensing arrangements
- Advising on acquisition and assignment of design rights
- Conducting due diligence in relation to design rights
Patents
- Preparing and prosecuting patent and utility innovation applications in Malaysia and through associates in other countries
- Advising on the patentability of inventions
- Conducting availability searches
- Liaising with our associates in Malaysia and abroad to assist clients in the drafting of patent specifications
- Renewing registrations for patents and utility innovations
- Commencing proceedings to invalidate patents & utility innovations
- Advising and drafting licensing arrangements
- Advising on acquisition and assignment of patents or utility innovation
- Conducting due diligence in relation to patents and utility innovations
Skrine’s IP and IT Practice advises on the overall protection and management of Intellectual Property Rights, and has a range of clients in all areas of commercial and industrial activity. Apart from being qualified Advocates & Solicitors, a number of lawyers in our IP and IT Practice are also Registered Trademark Agents, Registered Patent Agents and Registered Industrial Design Agents who have rights of audience before various Registries of the Intellectual Property Corporation, Registry of the Courts and Courts in West Malaysia.
PUBLICATIONS
- Hidden Treasures [2/04]
- The Name Game: A Quest for the Perfect Brand [2/04] To Patent or Not to Patent [3/04]
- Zen and the Art of IP Maintenance [1/05]
- Selecting Brands – Much More than Just Being Memorable [3/05]
- Innovate, Imitate, Irritate: Some Counteractions Against Counterfeiting [3/05]
- Throwing the Baby Out with the Bath Water: The Need to Protect Company Information [4/05]
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