| June 2008 |
PINTAS IPOTENTIAL NEWSLETTER"Your Intellectual Property Partners In Asean Countries" June 2008 Issue PINTAS is a multi-disciplinary IP boutique firm based in Malaysia and Singapore with special focus on intellectual property services in Asian region. We specialise in providing professional services in securing, protecting, managing and commercially exploiting your Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs). In This Issue:
1. Today News i. Malaysia: Malaysia Still On Piracy Watch List Malaysia must do even more to protect intellectual property rights, according to a statement by the United States Trade Representative posted on the USTR website. ... Read more ii. Malaysia: MDV's RM200m Fund For Biotech Companies Malaysia Debt Ventures Bhd (MDV) has introduced its new financing programme that will offer between RM2 million and RM120 million revolving project loans to companies in the life sciences sector. "This year, our target is to achieve RM200 million in the loan approvals between now and March 2009," said MDV chief executive officer Zubir Ansori Yahaya at the launch of the fund here yesterday. ...Read more iii. Philippines: RP Universities, R&D Institutions Urged to Patent Good Ideas Saying that patent applications provide a good indicator of the country's technological innovation, the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) of the Philippines urged local universities and research and developement institions to patent good ideas, and not be content in merely publishing them in academic papers. ...Read More iv. Malaysia: 7400 Patent Applications Yet To Be Proceed About 7,400 patent applications over the past five years have yet to be processed by the Intellectual Property Corporation of Malaysia (MyIPO). Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Minister Datuk Shahrir Abdul Samad said the backlog was due to the fact that every application needed quite some time to be processed, while at the same time new applications kept coming in. ...Read More v. INDONESIA: For Foreign Investors, Copyright Is Not a Joke This is certainly not a joke - unless data provided by the World Bank (WB) in Doing Business 2008 is incorrect. In the book, the WB ranked Indonesia 123 of 178 countries in term of doing business. ...Read More vi. VIETNAM: Protection of Digital Music Copyrights Enforced The Recording Industry Association of Vietnam (RIAV) has made public the royalty for online music, which is said to be high and unfeasible. Yet Pham Long Minh, RIAV's Office Chairman, confirmed that the most important thing is copyright respect. ...Read More vii. PHILIPPINES: Promoting Innovation In the past three months, THe Manila Times has exalted science and technology by coming out with at least two special report series on the sector, and by starting a new column, entitled Prometheus Bound, which has a group of scientists as guest columnists writing in round-robin manner. ...Read More viii. BRUNEI SERI BEGAWAN: Software Pirates To Face Legal Action The good days enjoyed by software pirates are numbered, as Microsoft (MS) legal team muscles up to take legal action against errant computer dealers or resellers who are selling illegal copies of Microsoft. This is in order to make a strong case against the sale of illegal copies of its products in Brunei. ...Read More
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