Protect your brand with a registered Malaysian trademark agent. We handle availability searches, MyIPO filing and registration, provisional refusal responses, oppositions, renewals and Madrid Protocol matters, for local businesses and foreign holders alike. Partner-led, with offices in Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh and Petaling Jaya.
A trademark is often a business's most valuable asset. Registering and defending it correctly the first time protects your brand and avoids costly, sometimes irreversible, mistakes.
A registered trademark protects the brand names, logos, slogans and other signs that distinguish your goods and services. In Malaysia, trademarks are governed by the Trade Marks Act 2019 and administered by the Intellectual Property Corporation of Malaysia (MyIPO). Registration gives you the exclusive right to use the mark for the goods and services you claim, a firm legal basis to stop copycats, and an asset you can license, franchise or assign.
A registered trademark agent is an individual, firm or company entered in MyIPO's Register of Trademark Agents and authorised to file and prosecute applications on an applicant's behalf, from the initial availability search and Nice classification, through drafting the specification and filing, to handling examination objections, oppositions and renewals. Crucially, under the Trade Marks Act 2019 a foreign applicant with no place of business in Malaysia must appoint a registered Malaysian agent; you cannot file or respond to MyIPO directly from abroad.
Abbas & Ngan has acted as a registered trademark agent since 1989. We advise Malaysian brand owners building their portfolios and, frequently, foreign holders and their overseas attorneys who need dependable local counsel, including for provisional refusals and oppositions arriving through the Madrid Protocol. We can be appointed under the Act and on record within one business day of instruction.
From the first availability search to registration, renewal and enforcement, we act as your registered agent across the entire trademark lifecycle in Malaysia.
Before you invest in a brand, we run availability searches of the MyIPO register and advise on the risk of objection or conflict. A clearance search at the outset is the cheapest way to avoid a refusal, an opposition or a costly rebrand later, and it helps you choose a mark that is both registrable and genuinely distinctive.
We prepare and file your application before MyIPO under the Trade Marks Act 2019, selecting the correct Nice classes and drafting a specification of goods and services broad enough to protect you yet precise enough to withstand examination. We then monitor the application through publication to issuance of the registration certificate.
If MyIPO issues a provisional refusal on absolute grounds (section 23) or relative grounds (section 24), we assess the prospects candidly and file a written response within the statutory deadline, using distinctiveness and coined-word arguments, evidence of use via statutory declaration, voluntary disclaimers or a narrowed specification, and requesting a hearing where it helps.
We act for both opponents and applicants in trademark oppositions before MyIPO, filing notices of opposition and counter-statements, preparing the evidence rounds by statutory declaration, and advising on settlement, coexistence or letters of consent where that better serves your commercial interests.
A registered mark must be renewed every ten years. We diarise and manage renewals so you never lose protection, and we handle recordals of assignments, mergers, changes of name or address and licences, keeping your registration enforceable and your chain of title clean.
Malaysia is a member of the Madrid Protocol. We advise on outbound international applications through WIPO based on your Malaysian mark, and act as your local agent for inbound Malaysian designations, including responding to provisional refusals raised against foreign holders within the statutory period.
Over three decades as a registered MyIPO trademark agent, with the candour and responsiveness that brand owners and overseas attorneys rely on.
A MyIPO-registered trademark agent with over three decades of practice. Longevity and a clean track record are exactly the trust signals that matter when your brand is on the line.
We regularly act for overseas applicants and their attorneys, appointed under the Trade Marks Act 2019 within one business day, and we know how to handle inbound Madrid Protocol refusals against foreign holders.
We give you an honest assessment of registrability and the real likelihood of overcoming a refusal. No false promises, just clear, fixed-fee quotes and a considered strategy.
Local offices and local knowledge, acting for clients nationwide and internationally. You deal directly with the partners handling your matter, not a call centre.
Common questions about registering and protecting a trademark in Malaysia, and about appointing a registered agent.
Speak with a registered Malaysian trademark agent. We'll run a search, advise on your prospects and give you a clear fixed-fee quote, for local brands and foreign holders alike.
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