South-East Asia

As of 8 November 2021, the Intellectual Property Corporation of Malaysia (MyIPO) has made its industrial designs available to the DESIGNview search tools.

With the addition of more than 39.000 industrial designs from MyIPO, DESIGNview provides information and access to more than 18.2 million designs in total.

Since the introduction of DESIGNview on 19 November 2012, the tool has served more than 6,8 million searches from 163 different countries, with the UK, Germany and China among the most frequent users.

The activity sought to promote UPOV 1991 accession of countries in SEA by supporting the creation of a regional platform that would reduce the administrative burden for EU breeders to apply for protection of their PVRs and improve the registration procedures in the participating countries. The activity took place on 18 January 2022. It was a closed session and participation was limited to PVP Officials from the SEA countries.

IP Key South-East Asia (SEA) Project, in collaboration with the Community Plant Variety Protection Office (CPVO), organised the ‘Webinar on Plant Variety Protection and UPOV 1991’ on Monday, 17 January 2022. This activity is a follow-up to prior activities on plant variety protection aimed at promoting effective plant variety protection systems in SEA in order to support the UPOV 1991 Act accession of countries in the region. The activity highlighted the benefits that PVP brings to socio-economic development and its contribution to agricultural sustainability.

The IP Key South-East Asia (SEA) Project welcomed participants to join the virtual “Conference on Trade Marks and Industrial Designs” on 10 and 11 February 2022. The Conference covered various topics of interest on trademarks and industrial designs, such as the impact of the pandemic on filings and IP office operations in SEA and the future of trademarks and designs in the light of technological advances and global challenges.

The IP Key South-East Asia project invited the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) stakeholders to the ‘Workshop on Geographical Indications for the Philippines’, as part of the technical support provided to SEA Countries in the enhancement of the GI system. This event was by invitation only.