The TPP’s impact on trademarks in Malaysia

The TPP covers a wide scope of policies, but for this article we will focus on some of the intellectual property provisions of the treaty and how they could affect existing Malaysian trademark laws. Article 18, chapter 18 of the TPP lays out the minimum level of IP protection that a party to the TPP agreement must put in place and enforce. In general, Malaysia is in compliance with most requirements but there must be some changes if we are to accede to the TPP.