Patent Grants In Malaysia
Patent applications cover diverse technologies. Analysing patents by technology reflects each country’s areas of strength or specialisation. For a fair comparison between Malaysia and the top 5 origins, both the high technology and medium high technology sectors are taken into account. The reason is for developing countries like Malaysia, it is generally recognised that both high technology and medium high technology sectors are regarded as high technology industrial sectors. The figure below shows the various technology fields of published patent publications for the top 5 origins for the year 2014-2016 with China, U.S., Japan. Republic of Korea and Germany remain the top 5 origins regarding patent application. It should be noted the one technology field Malaysia and the top 5 origins have in common is electrical machinery, apparatus and energy. This indicates Malaysia is in line with the global trends. Other than that, computer technology is another common field among Malaysia and the top origins except for Germany, China and the U.S. are more focused on computer technology while Japan and the Republic of Korea are more concentrated on electrical machinery, apparatus and energy. Germany however put more focus on developing the transport industry. While Malaysian patent landscape seems to follow the global, trends especially in computer technology and electrical machinery, apparatus and energy; pharmaceuticals and biotechnology remain among the top technology fields.
5000
4653
3855
4000
2980
3000
2584
2381
2000
1000
527
474
0
381
360
373
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
Foreign
Local
Source: Intellectual Property Corporation of Malaysia (MyIPO)
Generally, patent applications are published before they are officially granted. Published and granted patents often appear similar, hence they can easily be mistaken. Patent applications are published to make the public sphere aware of the patent protection. In other words, even if a particular patent is not granted, the public can still learn from the work. Granted patents are protected under the law. Granted patents essentially hand the creators and manufacturers of a protected work a monopoly over that work for a set period. This means no other individual or company is legally allowed to manufacture, use, sell or propose to sell or import the work. In the Malaysian context, from the year 2014-2018, the patent granted is highest in the year 2017 with a total of 5127 patents. Like the patent applications, local patents granted are relatively low as compared to the foreign patents. However, the numbers are growing, steadily although at a minimal rate from year to year.
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