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Pintas IP Group and it’s founder and director Mr. Lok Choon Hong has made it into the Intellectual Asset Manager (IAM) Patent 1000 2014 listing. Recognition has been given to Pintas for it’s professional and exemplary searching, drafting and persecution services in the IP industry. Mr. Lok is recognized for his skills on IP strategy and monetization.



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Pintas was one of the organizers for the Sarawak State Secretary, Tan Sri Datuk Amar Haji Mohamad Morshidi bin Abdul Ghani, and his group on an IP study trip in Singapore recently. The objectives of the 3 day study trip was to see how Singapore’s Government has implemented strategies towards IP Creation, IP Protection and Management and finally IP Monetization.

The study group visited various venues like the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS), ETPL, Centre for Technology Innovation & Commercialization (CTIC), IP Intermediary (IPI) & the NUS Industry Liaison Office (ILO).

3 December 2013- MyIPO had organized the IP Agent Award Ceremony at Intellectual Property Training Centre (IPTC), Menara UOA Bangsar. The IP Agent Award was presented by Deputy Director General of MyIPO, Tn. Hj. Mohd Shahar Osman on behalf of the Director General of MyIPO, YBhg Dato’ Azizan Mohamad Sidin.

Tn. Hj. Mohd Shahar, who also read the speech of the Director General said that IP agent should also advice their client on the importance of IP renewal in order to ensure the continuity of intellectual property protection and exclusive rights.

There were four categories of award which were the highest number of filing for Patent, Trade Mark, and Industrial Design as well as the highest number of filing via IP Online System.

The recipients have gone through a selection process based on the highest number of filing for Patent, Trade Mark, and Industrial Design, quality filing, minimal Extension of Time, client diversity as well as promotion via social media platform.

The four recipients were from Adastra Intellectual Property Sdn. Bhd., NBS Intellectual Sdn. Bhd., Pintas IP Group Sdn Bhd and Skrine & Co.



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KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 2, 2012): Banks are currently being trained to provide valuations of intellectual property (IP) rights as collateral for companies seeking loans, MCA secretary general Datuk Seri Kong Cho Ha said today.

“Banks must learn how to evaluate IP and do proper valuations as one kind of IP can be valued differently from another. We are working with funding agencies and commercial banks on this matter,” he said at a press conference after opening an MCA Information Resource Centre (MIRC) funding forum today.

IP can consist of anything from source codes to a platform for a first person shooting game, and banks will be accepting IP as collateral starting January next year.

On Friday, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak had announced an allocation of RM200 million for an IP Finance Scheme fund in Budget 2013 to help small and medium enterprises in their efforts to obtain financing.

Najib had said a valuation model would be created to allow IP to be valued and used commercially in the market as well as for collateral for companies seeking funds from financial institutions.

Kong, who is also Transport Minister and MCA science and technology bureau chairman, said the announcement bodes well for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and technology-based companies as they face funding difficulties often and such an option will provide a better chance of getting their loans approved.

“Intellectual property is worth a lot these days. Banks overseas accept IP as the ‘knowledge’ of the company and will finance the company based on IP as collateral,” he said.

Malaysia Debt Ventures Berhad (MDV) business division senior vice president Nizam Mohamed Nadzri said the infrastructure for the use of IP was already in place, and that a proper valuation requires a range of methodologies and values before reaching a figure.

“MDV currently evaluates five areas of a company when processing loan applications, namely the management, technical, financial, legal and collateral areas.

“However, the principal exit of repayment will always be the project or specific profits from the project; collateral is only used when all other avenues and options have been exhausted,” he said.

Meanwhile, the one-day forum aimed to create awareness on the myriad of funding options available to them as well as be a one-stop option for young companies and entrepreneurs to build their businesses.

MIRC president Andrew Wong said there are 160 funding options for SMEs and entrepreneurs today, and the forum addressed all four areas in the life cycle of a company.

“The forum addresses pre-business, accelerator, growth and expansion stages as well as provides support and information for companies who wish to develop their business or apply for funds.

“To date, MIRC has helped more than 4,000 SMEs and entrepreneurs, especially technopreneurs, over the past seven years,” he said.

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LESS than 5% of the local patents from the private sector in the country receive sufficient funding to bring the product to commercial production stage.

Association of Intellectual Property Entrepreneurs and Organisations (AIPO) president Lok Choon Hong said about 2,000 patents were filed in the country annually to receive intellectual protection.

He said about half of these was filed by the private sector while the other half was filed by higher education institutions.

“Of the 1,000 filed by the private sector, less than 5% receive funding to bring the products successfully to commercial production.

“This is because there are less than 100 active angel investors in the country today, compared to more than 200,000 angel investors in the United States,” said Lok.

Those patents that had no problem in sourcing funding were usually those filed by the corporate sector, he said in an interview.
Busy day: Visitors booth hopping at the Intrenasionale Industrial Expo 2012 in PISA.
Busy day: Visitors booth hopping at the Intrenasionale Industrial Expo 2012 in PISA.

“There are about 7,000 to 8,000 intellectual products from overseas filing for patent protection in Ma-laysia yearly,” said Lok.

He said this after the launch of the Intrenasionale Industrial Expo 2012 at the Penang International Sports Arena (PISA) by Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng.

At the event, Lok also signed an MoU with Small and Medium Enterprise Association Malaysia (Samenta) president Koay Chiew Guan to establish a platform to enhance the implementation of mutually beneficial business and investment objectives.

To help the local inventors source for funding, AIPO had recently established the Angels Investors Clubs (AIC) in Penang and Kuala Lumpur.

“The founding of AIC is to facilitate the introduction of entrepreneurs to potential investors through presentation.

“AIC members comprised high net worth individuals interested in financing private intellectual property-based companies,” he said.

Meanwhile, Lim said to provide back-up for the small and medium enterprises (SME) in Penang, the state government would soon de-velop SME Villages in the Bukit Minyak Industrial Park, Penang Science Park and Batu Kawan Industrial Park.

Internasionale chief executive officer Andrew Chan said that this year, there were 120 exhibitors, about the same number as last year’s.

“About 25% of the 160 exhibitors are foreign companies,” he said.

The three-day Intrenasionale Industrial Expo 2012 saw the latest in automation equipment and green technology available in the market.

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