ADIPVEN ANNOUNCES RECOGNITION OF RAMAKRISHNA DAMODHARAN AS PATENT STAR 2024 FOR MALAYSIA BY MANAGING IP
Adipven (M) Sdn. Bhd. (Adipven), a leading Malaysian Intellectual Property and Commercialisation (IP & C) Firm is proud to announce that our Managing Director, Ramakrishna Damodharan has been named Patent Star 2024 for Malaysia by Managing IP.
Managing IP’s annual awards celebrate the top IP professionals across the globe, recognizing outstanding achievements in the field. Mr....
THE DABUS SAGA: GLOBAL FIGHT FOR AI TO BE RECOGNISED AS AN INVENTOR
THE DABUS SAGA: GLOBAL FIGHT FOR AI TO BE RECOGNISED AS AN INVENTOR
The emergence of artificial intelligence (‘AI’) has taken the world by storm. This technological advancement has seamlessly permeated many industries, where they are reaping the benefits of automation, improvement of processes and workflow, accelerated data analysis, and even the creation of inventions. Not surprisingly,...
MALAYSIA: PATENTS (AMENDMENT) ACT 2022 CAME INTO FORCE
The Patents (Amendment) Act 2022, (hereinafter referred to as “the Amendment Act”), the act which effected significant changes to the Patents Act 1983 (hereinafter referred to as “the Patents Act”), was passed by the Dewan Negara of Parliament (Senate) on 22 December 2021 and received Royal Accent on 4 March 2022.
The Amendment Act came into force in Malaysia on 18 March 2022, the same date...
MALAYSIA: YKL ENGINEERING DEFEATED DURING APPEAL
This is a Malaysian case relating to YKL Engineering Sdn. Bhd. (hereinafter referred to as “the Plaintiff”) v Sungai Kahang Palm Oil Sdn. Bhd. (hereinafter referred to as “the 1st Defendant”) and and Profina Teknik Sdn. Bhd. (hereinafter referred to as “the 2nd Defendant”) which concerns patent and copyright infringement issues.
The Plaintiff is a design and manufacture company of specialized...
MALAYSIA: PATENT – ULTIMATE DECISION ON DEPENDENT CLAIM’S SURVIVAL IN COURT
On 26 June 2018, an application for leave to appeal to the Federal Court filed by Merck Sharp & Dohme Group and Merck Sharp & Dohme (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd (hereinafter referred to as the Appellants) was granted. The application for leave to appeal was following the dismissal by the High Court on 30 August 2016 of the Appellants’ infringement action against Hovid Berhad (hereinafter...
MALAYSIA: HOW PATENT DAMAGES ARE ACCESSED BY COURT
In the case of Asia File Products Sdn Bhd (herein referred as “Plaintiff”) V Brilliant Achievement Sdn Bhd, Lion File Marketing Sdn and Kho Kok Seang (herein referred as “1st, 2nd and 3rd Defendant respectively”) at the Court of Appeal against the Senior Assistant Registrar’s (hereinafter referred to as “the SAR”) assessment of compensatory damages for patent infringement (hereinafter referred...
MALAYSIA: MERCK SHARP & DOHME HITS ANOTHER OBSTACLE
In January of 2019, the Court of Appeal at Putrajaya delivered a judgment to the matter of Merck Sharp and Dohme Corp (hereinafter referred to as “Appellant 1”) and Merck Sharp and Dohme (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd. (hereinafter referred to as “Appellant 2”) v Hovid Berhad (hereinafter referred to as “Respondent”), which attracted a lot of interest in the industry and amongst patent practitioners in...
MALAYSIA: KINGTIME IS VICTORIOUS
In November of 2018, the High Court of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur delivered a judgement in Kingtime International Limited (hereinafter referred to as “Plaintiff 1”) and Gryphon Energy (Asia-Pacific) Sdn. Bhd (hereinafter referred to as “Plaintiff 2”) v Petrofac E&C Sdn. Bhd (hereinafter referred to as “Defendant”), which dealt with the principles of interpretation of claims in a patent...
MALAYSIA: PATENT FOUND TO INVALID
In a recent patent infringement dispute between Hong Yik Plastics (M) Sdn Bhd. (hereinafter referred to as the “Plaintiff”) and Ho Shen Lee (M) Sdn Bhd., as well as TNL Plastic Manufacturer Sdn Bhd. (hereinafter referred to as the “Defendants”), the High Court had to decide on the following issues:
Whether there was patent infringement on the Plaintiff’s patent
Whether the Plaintiff’s patent...
CAMBODIA: EUROPEAN PATENTS CAN NOW BE VALIDATED IN CAMBODIA
The President of the European Patent Office (EPO) and the Cambodian Minister of Industry and Handcraft signed an agreement on the validation of European patents that came into effect since 1 March 2018. This sets Cambodia to become the first country in Asia to validate European patents in the Asian region and now part of the 38-member states of the EPO. From the date of 1 March 2018, it will...