🖊️ Trademark will be legally recognized as one’s personal or movable property which may be subject of a security interest or charge. This simple means that a valuable trademark may now be charged to bank as collateral for financial loan and other financial benefits (terms and conditions apply
Month: June 2020 (page 4 of 5)
ℹ️ Absolute grounds of refusal refers to a contravention of Section 10 of the old Act and Section 23 of the 2019 Act. These sections simply refer to distinctiveness of a trademark whereby a trademark shall not be descriptive and geographical indicative which capable to distinguish itself from
📌 Under the old law, a trademark application may be ‘objected’ on absolute and relative grounds for two counts, and applicant must undergo the first stage appeal, and second hearing stage (if the first stage objection is maintained) in order to proceed further with their application. Under
📑 Applicants now are able to lodge a multi-classification application under a single trademark application which was not available previously. With the introduction of multi-class application, the new law also provides for division to divide a multi-class application to single class, as well as
✒️ The recently enforced Trademarks Act 2019 of Malaysia has undergone major changes in comparison to its predecessor. One of it is how it defines a “mark”. Instead of using the word “mark”, the new Act has adopted a more general term namely “sign” which includes the usual letters
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