Thailand’s Department of Intellectual Property has signalled this week, in its response to the 2026 U.S. Special 301 Report, that the draft amendment to the Patent Act has moved into the final accelerated stage of legislation. Thailand remains on the U.S. intellectual property Watch List, but the reform message is now more practical than political: companies filing patents, designs or technology-related matters in Thailand should revisit authorisation records, filing calendars and likely prosecution costs before the law changes rather than after.In Malaysia, MyIPO’s revised Guidelines of...
MyIPO opened a public consultation on 3 July 2026 on proposed amendments to Malaysia’s Copyright Act 1987, with comments due by 14 August. The package spans AI and text-and-data mining, digital enforcement and copyright commercialisation. Among the proposals are rules for the use of protected works in AI training; stronger safeguards for technological protection measures (TPMs) and rights management information (RMI); a tighter online service-provider safe harbour with a notice-and-takedown window that may be as short as 12 hours; dynamic injunctions capable of reaching mirror, clone and...
Malaysia’s Intellectual Property Corporation (MyIPO) and the World Intellectual Property Organization have introduced the Creative Economy Data Model at a national CEDM forum. MyIPO Director General Yusnieza Syarmila Yusoff said the model is designed to measure the creative economy across its full value chain rather than relying only on output indicators such as revenue, jobs or exports. Its scope includes digital transformation, platform-based activity, emerging business models and the growing impact of artificial intelligence on copyright industries.The policy value of the model will...
Developments dated 10 September 2026 indicate that the Intellectual Property Corporation of Malaysia (MyIPO) and the Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC) have introduced a new framework aimed at online trademark squatting and counterfeiting, while placing more direct compliance duties on major e-commerce platforms. Where a mark is officially identified by MyIPO as a bad-faith trademark, platforms such as Shopee, Lazada Malaysia and TikTok Shop are expected not only to remove related listings but also to operate a blacklist mechanism that can restrict or shut down local stores using...
Editor’s note (24 September 2026): as of publication we have not located an official announcement of the measures described below; this article is based on industry briefings and is subject to official confirmation.
On 14 July 2026, the Intellectual Property Corporation of Malaysia (MyIPO) introduced the Digital & Green Gateway (DGG), an accelerated patent examination route aimed at inventions involving artificial intelligence models, big-data processing algorithms and clean-energy technologies. Under the announced framework, applications that satisfy the basic formal requirements may...
Editor’s note (24 September 2026): as of publication we have not located an official announcement of the measures described below; this article is based on industry briefings and is subject to official confirmation.
On 5 August 2026, the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS) and the Intellectual Property Corporation of Malaysia (MyIPO) launched a bilateral Collaborative Search and Examination (CS&E) pilot for patent applications in artificial intelligence and green technology. An applicant may file a CS&E request with either office, after which examiners from both sides...
