📜 Under the new act (Trademark Act 2019) groundless threat provision was introduced to prevent any party from intimidating or threaten on baseless grounds.

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📰 Under the new Trademark Act 2019, there are two grounds of refusal namely Absolute and Relative grounds of refusal. Absolute grounds of refusal include marks that are deemed descriptive in nature or which have become customary and generic to the general public and hence cannot be monopolized

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❝ If you have a website, blogs, newsletters, marketing materials, videos, audios, images, articles or book, you have a goldmine,❞
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💬 says copyright expert Barbara Ingrassia.

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📑 In a landmark ruling, the European Patent Office (EPO) has rejected two patent applications1 wherein request was lodged with the EPO for designating the machine (Artificial Intelligence) as an “inventor”.The ground cited for rejecting the aforementioned patent applications is that

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📁 The Federal Court recently revisited its own jurisdiction to hear an appeal which lies in opposition against the registration of a trademark under Section 28 of the Trade Marks Act 1976 (“TMA”) in the case of Merck KGaA v Leno Marketing (M) Sdn Bhd [2018] MYFC 14. It was held that the

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