MALAYSIA Trends and Developments
Trends and Developments Contributed by: Tai Foong Lam and Amy Lim Yun Jin Gan Partnership
Gan Partnership has a dedicated intellectual prop- erty team based in its Kuala Lumpur office, compris- ing lawyers with complementary expertise in both contentious and non-contentious IP matters. While the firm operates from Kuala Lumpur, it maintains a strong international reach through a well-established network of foreign associate firms, enabling efficient handling of cross-border matters across multiple ju- risdictions. The team advises on the full spectrum of intellectual property work, including prosecution, licensing, enforcement, portfolio management and
IP-related commercial agreements, as well as relat- ed areas such as technology, telecommunications, data protection and dispute resolution. Recent work includes advising local and international clients on complex licensing structures, expedited trademark filings in exceptional circumstances, brand protec- tion strategies and intellectual property enforcement matters, as well as assisting in multi-jurisdictional commercial and IP disputes involving coordinated cross-border legal strategies.
Authors
Tai Foong Lam is a senior and pioneering Malaysian intellectual property practitioner with over two decades of experience. His practice covers the full spectrum of IP commercial work, including drafting
Amy Lim Yun Jin has a practice focusing on IP and dispute resolution, with experience spanning commercial disputes, debt recovery, employment matters and insurance claims. She provides advisory services across the
and negotiating complex agreements involving licensing, technology transfer, outsourcing, e-commerce, franchising, research and development and distribution arrangements. He also has extensive experience in IP litigation and enforcement, with several reported cases reflecting his contribution to Malaysian IP jurisprudence. He is widely recognised for his expertise in IT and telecommunications-related IP matters. Actively involved in the profession, he has served on the Bar Council IP Committee and was President of the Malaysian chapter of AIPPI. He was called to the Malaysian Bar in 1995.
full IP lifecycle, including prosecution, licensing, enforcement and brand protection, as well as drafting agreements such as co-existence, licensing, SaaS and shareholder arrangements. She has assisted in complex commercial and IP-related disputes, including multi-million-dollar litigation and strategic settlements. Amy also advises on brand management and cross-border IP protection. She holds a law degree from Multimedia University as a Great Eastern Scholarship Supremacy Award recipient and was admitted as an Advocate and Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya in 2019.
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