PATENTS
New invention
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No registration is required. Copyright automatically subsists once the work is completed. Therefore, it is important (however not compulsory) for the author to keep evidence of production
Place copyright notice (e.g. © 2011 LIM CHONG CHUAN & ASSOCIATES SDN BHD) on your work at all times
Make a Statutory Declaration to adduce evidence of the completed work. Please provide:
1) Full name and address of the Owner
2) Full name and address of the Author(s)
3) If the Owner is not the Author
Please justify the Owner's right to own (e.g. by employment / assignment / commission)
4) Completed work
Three conditions:
a) sufficient effort has been expended
b) the work has been written down / recorded / reduced to material form
c) work is done by a Malaysian citizen / permanent resident and is created / published in Malaysia
The life of the author + 50years after his death
If the work is published after the death of the author / If the work is published under a pen name: 50years from the publication date
Copying the whole work or a substantial part of the work with a photocopier / scanner / computer
Contact the Enforcement Unit of the Domestic Ministry of Trade and Consumer Affairs. Documents required:
a) an affidavit
b) alleged infringing copy
c) address where infringement is carried out
