WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION 
ORGANISATION MONDIALE DU COMMERCE 
ORGANIZACION MUNDIAL DEL COMERCIO 
Council for Trade-Related Aspects 
of Intellectual Property Rights IP/NIVMYS/DIl 
23 November 2001 
(01-5962) 
Original: Englishl 
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MAIN DEDICATED INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAWS AND REGULA TlONS 
NOTlFJED UNDER ARTrCLE 63.2 OF THE AGREEMENT 
MALAYSIA 
The present document reproduces the texe of the following laws and regulations, as notified by Malaysia under 
Article 63.2 ofthc Agrecment (see document IPJNIl/MYSIl): 
Industrial Designs Act 1996 (Act 552) and Regulations 
Industrial Designs (Amendment) Act 2000 (Act A 1077) 
Conseil des aspects des droits de propriete 
inteHectueUe qui touchent an commerce 
PRlNOPALES LOIS ET REGLEMENTATIONS CONSACREES A LA PROPRIETE 
INTELLECTDELLE NOTrFIEES AD TITRE DE L'ARTlCLE 63:2 DE L'ACCORD 
MALAISIE 2 
73 
Le present document contient le textcl des lois et reglementations ci-apn~s, notifiees par la Malaisie au titre de 
l'articlc 63:2 dc I'Accord (voir le document IP/NJl/MYSII): 
Loi dc 1996 sur les dessins et modeles indush'iels (Loi nO 552) et reglcmentation 
Loi de 2000 sur les dcssins et model cs industriels (modification) (Loi n° A1077) 
Consejo de los Aspectos de !os Derechos de Propiedad 
Intelectual relacionados con cl Comercio 
PRINOPALES LEYES Y REGLAMENTOS DEDICADOS A LA PROPIEDAD INTELECTUAL 
NOTlFJCADOS EN VIRTUD DEL pARRAFO 2 DEL ARTicULO 63 DEL ACUERDO 
MALASIA 2 
73 
En el presente documento se reproduce eI texto1 de las Jeyes y reglamentos notificados por Malasia en virtud de 10 
dispuesto en el parrafo 2 del articulo 63 del Acuerdo (v ease el docurnento IP/N/l/MYS/1) 
Ley de Dibujos X Modelos Industriales de 1996 (Lex 552) X Reglarnentos 2 
Lex de Dibujos y Modelos Industriales (Modificacion) de 2000 (Ley Al 077) 73 
1 Distributed in English only, The texts of these laws in the original language are available for 
consultation by interested Delegations at the WTO Secretariat/En anglais seulement. Les delegations 
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l'OMC.!Distribuido en ingles solamente. Las delegaciones interesadas podnin consultar en la Secretaria de la 
OMC 105 textos de estas leyes en su idioma original. IP/NIlIMYS/D/l 
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INDU IAL DESI NS 
T 19 (CT 552) 
REGULATIONS 
(AS AT 25TH FEBRUARY 2000) INDUSTRIAL DESIGNS ACT 1996 
(Act 552) 
ARRANGEMENT OF SECI10NS 
PART I 
PRELIMINARY 
1. Short title. commencement and application. 
2. Extent of application. 
3. Interpretation. 
PART H 
ADMINISTRA nON IPlNllIMYS/D/I 
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4. Registrar, Deputy Registrars and Assistant Registrars. 
5. Industrial Designs Registration Office. 
6. Register of Industrial Designs. 
7. Notice of trust. 
8. Inspection of Register. 
9. Certified copies to be evidence. 
PART HI 
REGISTRATION OF INDUSTRIAL DESIGN 
10. Ownership of registered industrial designs. 
11. Right to apply for and o.btain registration. 
12. Registrable industrial design. 
13. Industrial design contrary to public order or morality. 
14. Application for registration. 
15. Multiple application. 
16. Filing date. 
17. Priority date and right of priority under treaty or convention. 
18. Withdrawal of application. 
19. Amendment of application. 
20. Division of application after amendment. 
21. Examination. 
22. Registration and publication. 
23. Registration of the same industrial design in respect of 
other articles. 
24. Rectification of Register. IPlN/I/MYS/D/l 
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PART IV 
PERIOD OF REGISTRA nON 
25. Period of registration. 
26. Restoration of lapsed registration. 
27. Revocation of registration. and grant of compulsory licence. 
28. Order of Court. 
PART V 
RIGHTS OF OWNER, ASSIGNMENT AND 
TRANSMISSION 
29. Rights of owner are personal property. 
30. Registration of assignment. transmission or other operation 
of law. 
31. Joint ownership. 
PART VI 
INFRINGEMENT· 
32. Infringement of registered industrial design. 
33. Infringement proceedings. 
34. Defence in action for infringement. 
35. Remedies for infringement. 
PART VU 
OFFENCES 
36. Falsification of Register. etc. 
37. False representation of registration. 
38. Use of title "Industrial Designs Registration Office". 
39. Offences by body corporate. 
PART VIn 
OTHER POWERS OF THE REGISTRAR 
40. Amendment of registered industrial design. 
41. General powers of Registrar. 
42. Exercise of discretionary power. 
43. Extension of time. 44. Service by post. 
45. Agent. 
46. Appeal. 
47. Regulations. PART IX 
MISCELLANEOUS 
48. Convention countries. 
49. Repeal and saving provisions. 
50. Transitional. LP /N/lIMYS/DI1 
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INDUSTRIAL DESIGNS ACT 1996 
(Act 552) 
An Act to provide for the registration of industrial designs in 
Malaysia and for matters connected therewith. 
[ 1.9.1999 -PU(B) 304/99] 
BE IT ENACTED by the Seri Paduka Baginda Yang di­
Pertuan Agong with the advice and consent of the Dewan 
Negara and Dewan Rakyat in Parliament assembled, and by 
the authority of the same, as follows: 
PART I 
PRELIMINARY 
1. Short title, application and commencement. 
(l) This Act may be cited as the Industrial Designs Act 
1996 and shall come into force on such date as the Minister 
may, by notification in the Gazette, appoint. 
(2) This Act shall apply throughout Malaysia. 
2. Extent of application. 
This Act shall apply to applications for the registration of 
industrial designs made after the commencement of this Act 
and to registrations of industrial designs made on such appli­
cations. 
3. Interpretation. 
(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires-
"article" means any article of manufacture or handicraft, 
and includes any part of such article or handicraft if that part 
is made and sold separately; 
"author" means the person who creates a design; 
"convention country" means a country in respect of which 
there is in force for the time being an order under section 48 
declaring it to be a convention country for the purposes of 
this Act; IPINII/MYS/DIl 
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"Court" means the High Court or a judge thereof; 
"industrial design" means features of shape, 
configuration, pattern or ornament applied to an article 
by any industrial process or means, being features which 
in the finished article appeal to and are judged by the 
eye, but does not include-
( a) a method or principle of construction; or 
(b) features of shape or configuration of an article 
which- ' 
(i) are dictated solely by the function which 
the article has to perform; or 
(ii) are dependent upon the appearance of 
another article of which the article is 
intended by the author of the design to 
form an integral part; 
"legal personal representative". in relation to a deceased 
person, means a person to whom probate of the will of 
the deceased person, letters of administration of the estate 
of the deceased person or other like grant, has been 
granted whether in Malaysia or elsewhere; 
"owner" means the person who is registered as the 
owner of the registered industrial design or, if there are 
two or more such persons, each of those persons; 
"original owner" has the meaning assigned to it by 
section 10; 
"prescribed" means prescribed by or under this Act or 
any regulations made under this Act, and where no mode 
is mentioned, means prescribed from time to time by 
order published in the Gazette; 
"Register" means the Register of Industrial Designs 
kept under this Act; IPINIlIMYS/DIl 
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"registered" means registered under this Act; 
"registered industrial design" means an industrial design 
registered under this Act; 
"Registrar", "Deputy Registrar" and "Assistant 
Registrar" mean respectively the Registrar of Industrial 
Designs, the Deputy Registrar of Industrial Designs and 
the Assistant Registrar of Industrial Designs appointed 
under section 4; 
"representation", in relation to an article to which an 
industrial design is applied, means a drawing, tracing or 
specimen of the article to which the industrial design is 
applied or a photograph of such drawing, tracing or 
specimen; 
"set of articles" means a number of articles that are 
of the same general character and ordinarily on sale 
together, or intended to be used together. being articles 
to each of which there is applied an industrial design 
that is the same as, or which differs only in immaterial 
details or in features commonly used in the relevant trade 
from, the industrial design applied to the other articles 
or to any of them; 
"statement of novelty", in relation to an industrial design, 
means a statement relating to the representation of an 
article to which the industrial design is applied that 
indicates those features of the representation in respect 
of which novelty is claimed. 
(2) A reference in this Act to an article shall be read 
as including a reference to-
(a) a set of articles; 
(b) each article in a set of articles; and 
( c) both a set of articles and each article in that 
set, as the case requires. PART II 
ADMINISTRATION IP!NIlIMYS/DIl 
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4. Registrar, Deputy Registrars and Assistant Registrars. 
(1) The Minister may appoint a Registrar of Industrial 
Designs who shall be conferred with powers and functions 
for the proper administration of this Act. 
(2) The Minister may give the Registrar any direction 
consistent with the provisions of this Act as to the exercise 
and performance of the powers and functions in relation 
to any matter which appears to him to concern the 
development of industrial designs and other matters 
connected therewith and the Registrar shall give effect 
to any such direction. 
(3) The Minister may appoint such number of Deputy 
Registrars of Industrial Designs as may be necessary for 
carrying out the provisions of this Act and the Deputy 
Registrar shall, subject to· the control of the Registrar, 
have all the powers and functions of the Registrar under 
this Act except the power of delegation referred to in 
subsection (5). 
(4) The Minister may appoint such number of Assistant 
Registrars of Industrial Designs as may be necessary for 
carrying out the provisions of this Act and any regulations 
made thereunder. . 
(5) The Registrar may, in relation to a particular matter 
or class of matters, by writing under his hand, delegate 
to an Assistant Registrar all or any of his powers or 
functions under this Act, except his power of delegation, 
but a delegation made under this subsection is revocable 
at the discretion of the Registrar and does not pr.event 
the exercise of that power or function by the Registrar 
or any of the Deputy Registrars. 
(6) The Registrar shall have a seal of such device as 
may be approved by the Minister and the impressions 
of such seal shall be judicially noticed and admitted in 
evidence. 
5. Industrial Designs Registration Office. 
(1) For the purposes of this Act, there shall be 
established an Industrial Designs Registration Office which 
shall be the office of the Registrar. IP/N/l/MYS!DIl 
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(2) The Registrar shall be responsible for the 
administration of the Industrial Designs Registration 
Office. 
(3) The Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, 
establish such number of branch offices of the Industrial 
Designs Registration Office as he may deem necessary 
for the purposes of this Act. 
(4) Any application or other document required or 
pennitted to be filed at the Industrial Designs Registration 
Office may be filed at any branch office of the Industrial 
Designs Registration Office and such application or other 
document shall be deemed to have been filed at the 
Industrial Designs Registration Office. 
6. Register of Industrial Designs. 
(1) The Registrar shall keep and maintain a register 
called the Register of Industrial Designs. 
(2) There shall be entered in the Register-
(a) the names and addresses of owners of registered 
industrial designs; 
( b) notices of assignment and of transmissions of 
registered industrial designs; and 
( c) such other matters as may from time to time 
be prescribed or as the Registrar may think fit. 
(3) The Register shall be kept in such fonn and on 
such material as may be prescribed. 
7. Notice of tnlst. 
Notice of a trust whether express, implied or 
constructive shall not be entered in the Register or be 
accepted by the Registrar. 
8. Inspection of Register. 
(1) The Register shall be open to the inspection of 
the public at such times as the Minister may by regulations 
prescribe. 
(2) A certified true copy or extract of any entry in the 
Register sealed with the seal of the Registrar shall be 
given to any person requiring the same on payment of 
the prescribed fee. 9. Certified copies to be evidence. IPINI1IMYS/D/J 
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(1) The Register shall constitute prima facie 
evidence of all matters required or authorized by this 
Act to be entered therein. 
(2) The Registrar may supply a copy of or an extract 
from-
(a) any entry or document in the Register; or 
(b) a document or publication in the Industrial 
Designs Registration Office, 
certified by writing under his hand and seal to be a true 
copy or extract. 
(3) A copy or extract s,o certified and sealed shaH be 
admissible in evidence as of equal validity with the original 
in an courts and proceedings without further proof or 
production of the original. 
(4) The Registrar may certify, by writing under his 
hand and seal-
(a) that an entry, matter or thing required by or 
under this Act to be made or done, or not to 
be made or done, has, or has not, as the case 
may be, been made or done; or 
(b) that a book, document or publication in the 
Industrial Designs Registration Office was made 
available for public inspection on the date 
specified in the certificate, 
and such a certificate shall be received as prima facie 
evidence of the matters specified in the certificate in 
any legal proceedings. 
PART HI 
REGISTRATION OF INDUSTRIAL DESIGN 
10. Ownership of registered industrial designs. 
0) Subject to this section, the author of an industrial 
design shall be treated for the purposes of this Act as 
the originai owner of the industrial design. IPINIlJMYSJDIl 
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(2) Where an industrial design is created in pursuance 
of a commission for money or money's worth, the person 
commissioning the industrial design shaH, subject to any 
contrary agreement between the parties, be treated as 
the original owner of the industrial design. 
(3) Where, in a case not falling within subsection (2), 
an industrial design is created by an employee in the 
course of his employment, his employer shall, subject 
to any contrary agreement between the parties, be treated 
as the original owner of the industrial design. 
(4) The original owner of an industrial design or the 
assignee of any interest in an industrial design may assign 
in writing to another person the whole or any part of his 
interest in the industrial design. 
(5) Where an industrial design, or the right to apply 
an industrial design to any article, becomes vested, whether 
by assignment, transmission or operation of law, in any 
person other than the original owner. either alone or 
jointly with the original owner, that other person or,as 
the case may be, the original owner and that other person 
shall be treated for the purposes of section 11 as the 
original owner of the industrial design or as the original 
owner of the industrial design in relation to that article. 
(6) In the case of an industrial design generated by 
computer in circumstances such that there is no human 
author, the person by whom the arrangements necessary 
for the creation of the industrial design are made shall 
be taken to be the author. 
11. Right to apply and obtain registration. 
(1) The original owner of an industrial design is 
entitled to make an application for the registration of 
the industrial design. 
(2) Where two or more persons own interests in an 
industrial design, an of the persons owning such interests, 
acting jointly, are, subject to any agreement among such 
persons to the contrary, entitled to make an application 
for the registration of the industrial design. 
12. Registrable industrial design. 
(1) Subject to this Act, an industrial design shall 
not be registered unless it is new. IPlNllIMYSlD1l 
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(2) An industrial design for which an application for 
registration is made shall not be considered to be new 
if, before the priority date of that application, it or an 
industrial design differing from it only in immaterial 
details or in features commonly used in the relevant trade-
(a) was disclosed to the public anywhere in 
Malaysia; or 
(b) was the subject matter of another application 
for registration of an industrial design filed in 
Malaysia but having an earlier priority date made 
by a different applicant in so far as that subject 
matter was included in a registration granted 
on the basis of that other application. 
(3) For the purposes of paragraph (2)( a), an 
industrial design shall not be deemed to have been 
disclosed to the public solely by reason of the fact that, 
within the period of six months preceding the filing date 
of an application for registration-
(a) it appeared in an official or officially recognized 
exhibition; or 
( b) it has been disclosed by a person other than 
the applicant or his predecessor in title as a 
result of an unlawful act committed by that 
other person or another person. 
13. Industrial design contrary to public order or morality. 
Industrial designs that are contrary to public order 
or morality shall not be registrable. 
14. Application for registration. 
(1) An application for the registration of an industrial 
design-
( a) shall be made in the prescribed form and shall 
be filed at the Industrial Designs Registration 
Office; 
(b) shall be accompanied by the prescribed number 
of representations of the article to which the 
industfial design is applied; 
(c) shaH contain a statement of novelty respect 
of the industrial design to which the application 
relates; and IPlNl1lMYS/D/l 
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(d) shall be accompanied by the prescribed filing 
fee. 
(2) Where the applicant's ordinary residence or principal 
place of business is outside Malaysia, he shall appoint 
an agent in Malaysia upon whom notice or process relating 
to the application for registration of an industrial design 
may be served, and if the applicant fails to appoint an 
agent, the Registrar may refuse to proceed with the 
application until such agent has been appointed. 
15. Mnltiple ~pplication. 
Two or more industrial designs may be the subject 
of the same application, provided they relate to the same 
class of the International Classification for Industrial 
Designs or to the same set or composition of articles. 
16. Filing date. 
The filing date of an application for the registration 
of an industrial design shall be the earliest date on which 
all of the following conditions are satisfied in relation 
to the application: 
(a) the documents mentioned in section 14 identify 
the applicant or applicants; 
(b) the prescribed number of representations of the 
. article to which the industrial design is applied 
is filed at the Industrial Designs Registration 
Office; and 
( c) the prescribed filing fee is paid. 
17. Priority date and right of priority under treaty or 
convention. 
(1) Subject to this section, the priority date of an 
application for the registration of an industrial design is 
the filing date of the application. 
(2) An application may, pursuant to any international 
treaty or convention to which Malaysia is party, contain 
a declaration claiming the priority of one or more earlier 
national, regional or international applications filed by 
the applicant or his predecessor in title in or for any 
state party to the said treaty or convention; and in any 
such case, the priority date shall be the earliest date on 
which such earlier national, regional or international 
applications were filed: IPINI1IMYS/DI 1 
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Provided that the application made under this Act has 
been filed within six months from such earliest date. 
(3) Where the application contains a declaration under 
subsection (2), the Registrar may require the applicant 
to furnish, within the prescribed time, a copy of the 
earlier application certified as correct by the office with 
which it was filed. 
(4) The effect of the declaration referred to in subsection 
(2) shall be as provided in the treaty or convention referred 
to in that subsection. 
(5) Where any of the requirements of this section or 
any regulations pertaining thereto have not been complied 
with, the declaration referred to in subsection (2) shall 
be deemed to be invalid. 
18. Withdrawal of application. 
The applicant for registration of an industrial design 
may, by notice in writing to the Registrar, withdraw the 
application at any time during its pendency, and any 
such withdrawal shall be irrevocable. 
19. Amendment of application~ 
(1) The Registrar may, on request to him in the 
prescribed manner, amend an application for the 
registration of an industrial design. 
(2) An amendment under subsection (1) shall not be 
made if, as a result of the amendment, the scope of the 
application would be increased by the inclusion of any 
matter that was not in substance disclosed in the application 
initially filed. 
20. Division of application after amendment. 
(1) Where a request for amendment under section 
19 has been granted, and the amendment has the effect 
of excluding one or more industrial designs from the 
initial application, the applicant may at any time during 
the pendency of the initial application make a further 
application, referred to in this section as a "divisional 
application", for registration of the industrial design or 
designs so excluded. IPINIlIMYS/DI1 
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(2) A divisional application shall be entitled to the 
priority date of the initial application. 
21. Examination. 
(1) Where an application for the registration of an 
industrial design has been accorded a filing date and the 
application is not withdrawn, the Registrar shall cause 
the application to be examined to determine whether it 
complies with the formal requirements. 
(2) Where, as a result of the examination, it is 
determined that the application does not meet the formal 
requirements the Registrar shall notify the applicant and 
give him an opportunity to make observations on such 
finding and to amend the application within a specified 
period so as to comply with those requirements. 
(3) If, within the specified period, the applicant fails 
to satisfy the Registrar that the formal requirements have 
been complied with, or to amend the application so as 
to comply with them, the Registrar may refuse to register 
the industrial design. 
(4) The Registrar shall not refuse to register an industrial 
design under subsection (3) until the applicant has been 
given an opportunity to be h~ard. 
(5) In this section, "formal requirements" means the 
requirements of this Act and of any regulations made 
under this Act which are designated by such regulations 
as formal requirements for the purposes of this Act. 
22. Registration and publication. 
(1) Where the Registrar is satisfied that an application 
for the registration of an industrial design complies with 
the requirements of section 21, he shall-
(a) register the industrial design by recording the 
prescribed particulars in the Register; and 
(b) issue to the applicant a certificate of registration 
of the industrial design in the prescribed form. 
(2) As soon as possible thereafter, the Registrar shall 
cause to be published in the Gazette-" 
(a) a notice that the industrial design has been 
registered; IPlNllIMYS/DIl 
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( b) the name and address of the registered owner; 
and 
( c) any other matters constituting or relating to the 
industrial design which in his opinion it is 
desirable to publish. 
(3) The certificate of registration shall be prima facie 
evidence of the facts stated therein and of the· validity 
of the registration. 
23. Registration of the same industrial design in respect 
of other articles. 
(1) Where an industrial design has been registered 
in respect of any article and the owner thereof makes 
an application-
( a) for registration, in respect of one or more other 
articles, of the registered industrial design; or 
( b) for registration, in respect of the same or one 
or more other articles, of an industrial design 
consisting of the registered industrial design 
with modifications or variations not sufficient 
to alter the character or substantially to affect 
the identify thereof, . 
the application shall not be refused, and the registration 
made on that application shall not be invalidated by reason 
only of the previous registration, or of any disclosure or 
use after the priority date in respect of the application 
for the previous registration, of the industrial design 
registered on that application. 
(2) The period of registration of an industrial design 
registered by virtue of this section shall not extend beyond 
the period of registration of the original registered 
industrial design and any extended period thereof. IPINIl/MYS/DIl 
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24. Rectification of Register. 
(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act-
(a) the Court may, on the application in the 
prescribed manner, of any person aggrieved by 
or interested in the non-inclusion in or omission 
from the Register of any entry, or by or in any 
entry made in the Register without sufficient 
cause, or any entry wrongfully remaining in 
the Register, or any error or defect in any entry 
in the Register, make such order for including, 
making. expunging or varying any such entry 
or for the correcting of any such error or defect 
as it deems fit; 
(b) the Court may in any proceeding under this 
section decide any question that may be 
necessary or expedient to decide in connection 
with the rectification of the Register; 
( c) in case of fraud in the registration, assignment 
or transmission of a registered industrial design 
or if in his opinion it is in the public interest 
to do so, the Registrar may himself apply to 
the Court under this section; 
(d) an order of the Court rectifying the Register 
shall direct that notice of the order be served 
on the Registrar in the prescribed manner and 
the Registrar shall upon receipt of the notice 
rectify the Register accordingly. 
(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), the Court shall 
not make any order on the application of a person other 
than the Registrar until notice of such application has 
been given to the Registrar who shall be entitled to appear 
and be heard on the application. 
(3) Any application for the rectification of the Register, 
which under subsection (1) is to be made to the Court 
and where the applicant is other than the Registrar himself, 
may, at the option of the applicant, be made in the first 
instance to the Registrar except where an action concerning 
the industrial design in question is pending. IP/NIlIMYS/DI 1 
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(4) The Registrar may at any stage of any application 
for rectification of the Register made to him refer any 
such application to the Court, or he may, after hearing 
the applicant in any such application and the owner as 
well where the applicant is a person other than the owner 
of the registered industrial design, determine the question 
between them. 
PART IV 
PERIOD OF REGISTRATION 
25. Period of registration. 
(1) The registration of an industrial design shall be 
deemed to have come into force on the filing date of the 
application for the registration of the -industrial design 
and shall subsist for five years thereafter. 
(2) The period of registration of an industrial design 
may be extended for two further consecutive terms of 
five years each, if an application for extension is made 
in the prescribed form, and the prescribed extension fee 
is paid before the expiration of the current term. 
(3) A period f)f grace of six months from the date on 
which any unpaid extension fee was due shall be granted 
for the payment of such extension fee, subject to the 
payment of such surcharge as may be prescribed. 
(4) Where an application for extension is not made 
or an extension fee is not paid in accordance with this 
section, the registration shall lapse, and a notice of lapse 
of the registration shall be published in the Gazette. 
26. Restoration of lapsed registration. 
(1) Within one year from the date on which the 
notice of lapse of the registration of an industrial design 
was published in the Gazette, the owner or his successor­
in-title may apply for the restoration of the registration 
of the industrial design by-
(a) filing a request for restoration in the prescribed 
form; 
(b) payment of any outstanding extension fee and 
a prescribed surcharge for restoration; and IP/N/lIMYS/DI1 
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( C) filing a statement setting out the circumstances 
that led to the failure to extend the registration 
of the industrial design. 
(2) Where the Registrar is satisfied that the failure 
to extend the registration was due to an accident or mistake, 
he may publish in the Gazette a notice of intention to 
restore the lapsed registration. 
(3) Any interested person may, within three months 
from the date of such pUblication, give notice to the 
Registrar of opposition to the restoration of the registration 
and shall serve a copy of the notice on the applicant for 
restoration. 
(4) Where no notice of opposition is given in 
accordance with subsection (3) within the period of three 
months following the date of the publication referred to 
in subsection (2), the Registrar shall restore the registration 
of the industrial design, which shall have effect as if 
that registration had not lapsed, and he shall publish a 
notice in the Gazette that the registration has been so 
restored. 
(5) Where a notice of opposition is given in 
accordance with subsection (3), the Registrar shall, after 
giving the opponent and the applicant for restoration an 
opportunity to be heard, decide the matter, and where 
he decides to restore the registration, the registration 
shall have effect as if it had not lapsed, and he shall 
publish a notice in the Gazette that the registration has 
been so restored. 
(6) Actions or proceedings shall not be taken in respect 
of an infringement of the registered industrial design 
committed between the date on which the registration of 
the industrial design ceased to be in force and the date 
of the publication in the Gazette of the restoration of the 
industrial design. 
(7) Any person aggrieved by the Registrar's decision 
on the grant or refusal of restoration under this section 
may appeal to the Court. 
27. Revocation of registration and grant of compulsory 
licence. 
(1 )At any time after the registration of an industrial 
design, any person may apply to the Court-IP/NIlIMYSIDIl 
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(a) for the revocation of the registration of the 
industrial design on the ground, subject to section 
12, that the industrial design has been disclosed 
to the public prior to the priority date of the 
application for registration of the industrial 
design; 
(b) for the cancellation of the registration of the 
industrial design on the ground that the 
registration of the industrial design has been 
procured by unlawful means; or 
( c) for the grant of a compulsory licence in respect 
of the industrial design on the ground that the 
industrial design is not applied in Malaysia by 
any industrial process or means to the article 
in respect of which it is registered to such an 
extent as is reasonable in the circumstances of 
the case, 
and the Court may make such order on the application 
as it considers just. 
(2) The provisions of paragraphs (l)(a) and (l)(b) 
shall be without prejudice to the right of the owner of 
an industrial design to request the Registrar for the 
revocation of a registered industrial design of which he 
is owner, or to the power of the Registrar to order the 
revocation of the registration of an industrial design on 
any other ground as he thinks fit. 
28. Order of Court. 
No order which is inconsistent with any treaty, 
convention, arrangement or engagement with any country 
outside Malaysia shall be made by the Court under section 
27. 
PART V 
RIGHTS OF OWNER, ASSIGNMENT AND TRANSMISSION 
29. Rights of owner are personal property. 
(1) The rights of an owner with respect to a registered 
industrial design are personal property and are capable 
of assignment and transmission by operation of law. 
(2) Subject to this Act, the laws applicable to ownership 
and devolution of personal property shall apply in relation 
to a registered design as they would apply in relation 
to other choses-in-action. IPINIlIMYS/DI 1 
Page 22 
(3) An assignment referred to in subsection (1) shall 
be in writing. 
~1. Registration of assignment, transmission or other 
operation of law. 
(1) Where any person becomes entitled by assignment 
or transmission or through other operation of law to a 
registered industrial design or to an application for the 
registration of an industrial design, he shall apply to the 
Registrar in the prescribed manner to have such 
assignment, transmission or other operation of law recorded 
in the Register. 
(2) No assignment, transmission or other operation of 
law in respect of a registered industrial design shall have 
effect against third parties unless recorded in the Register. 
31. Joint ownership. 
(1) Where an industrial design is registered in favour 
of two or more persons, each of them shall, subject to 
any agreement between them to the contrary, be entitled 
to an equal undivided share in the registered industrial 
design. 
(2) Where two or more persons are joint owners of 
a registered industrial design, then, subject to this section 
and to any agreement between them to the contrary-
(a) each of them shall be entitled, by himself or 
throu.gh his agents, to do any act, for his own 
benefit and without the conse.!.l! of or the need 
to account to the other or others, which would 
apart from this subsection amount to an 
infringement of the registered industrial design; 
and -
(b) any such act shall not amount to an infringement 
of the registered industrial design. 
(3) Where two or more persons are joint owners of 
a registered industrial design, then, subject to any 
agreement between them to the contrary, none of them 
shall without the consent of the other or others grant a 
licence with respect to the use of the registered industrial 
design, or assign or mortgage his interest in the registered 
industrial design. IPINIlIMYS/DI1 
Page 23 
(4) The provisions of this section shaH have effect in 
relation to a right to apply for the registration an industrial 
design as they have effect in relation to a registered 
industrial design, and references to a registered industrial 
design shall include references to a right to apply for 
the registration of an industrial design. 
PART VI 
INFRINGEMENT 
32. Infringement of registered industrial design. 
(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, the owner 
of a registered industrial design shall have the exclusive 
right to make or import for sale or hire, or for use for 
the purposes of any trade or business, or to sell, hire or 
to offer or expose for sale or hire, any article to which 
the registered industrial design has been applied. 
(2) Subject to section 30, a person infringes the rights 
conferred by the registration of an industrial design if 
he, without the licence or consent of the owner of the 
industrial design, does any of the following things while 
the registration is still in force-
(a) applies the industrial design or any fraudulent 
or obvious imitation of it to any article in respect 
of which the industrial design is registered; 
(b) imports into Malaysia for sale, or for use for 
the purposes of any trade or business, any article 
to which the industrial design or any fraudulent 
or obvious imitation of it has been applied 
outside Malaysia without the licence or consent 
of the owner; or 
(c) sells, or offers or keeps for sale, or hires, or 
offers or keeps for hire, any of the articles 
described in paragraph (a) and (b). 
(3) Notwithstanding subsection (1), the right of the 
owner of a registered industrial design shall not extend 
to acts in respect of an article to which the registered 
industrial design is applied by or with the consent of the 
owner after the article has been lawfully imported into 
or sold in Malaysia. JP INI1IMYS/DI1 
Page 24 
33. Infringement proceedings. 
(1) The owner of a registered industrial design shall 
have the right to institute legal proceedings against any 
person who has infringed or is infringing any of the 
rights conferred by the registration of the industrial design. 
(2) The owner of a registered industrial design shall 
have the same right against any person who has performed 
acts which make likely that an infringement will occur. 
(3) The proceedings mentioned in subsections (1) and 
(2) may not be instituted after five years from the act 
of infringement. 
(4) For the purposes of this section, "owner of a 
registered industrial design" means the registered owner 
and includes an assignee, a licensee or the beneficiary 
of a compulsory licence granted under section 27; but 
if any proceedings are instituted by a person other than 
the registered owner, it must be proved that that person 
had made a prior request to the registered owner to institute 
proceedings for the infringement complained of by him 
and that the registered owner had refused or failed to 
institute the proceedings within three months from the 
receipt of the request, without prejudice however to the 
registered owner's right to join in such proceedings. 
34. Defence in action for infringement. 
Any ground on which the registration of an industrial 
design may be revoked is available as a defence in an 
action for infringement of a registered industrial design. 
35. Remedies for infringement. 
(1) If the owner of a registered industrial design 
proves that an infringement has been committed or is 
being committed, the Court may award damages or an 
account of profits and may grant an injunction to prevent 
further infringement and any other legal remedies. 
(2) If the owner of a registered industrial design proves 
that acts are being performed which make it likely that 
an infringement will occur, that Court may grant an 
injunction to prevent infringement and any other legal 
remedies. IPlNllIMYS/DI1 
Page 25 
(3) The Court may refuse to award damages, or to 
make an order for an account of profits, in respect of 
an infringement, if the defendant satisfies the Court-
(a) that, at the time of the infringement, he was 
not aware that the industrial design was 
registered; and 
(b) that he had, prior to that time. taken all 
reasonable steps to ascertain whether the 
industrial design had been registered. 
PART VII 
OFFENCES 
36. Falsification of Register, etc 
Any person who-
( a) makes or causes to be made a false entry in the 
Register; 
( b) makes or causes to be made a false entry in 
any certified copy of a document or publication 
in the Industrial Designs Registration Office; 
(c) makes or causes to be made a false document 
purporting to be a copy of an entry in the 
Register; 
(d) produces or tenders or causes to be produced 
or tendered in evidence any document mentioned 
in paragraph (b) or ( c) knowing such document 
or any entry therein to be false; or 
(e) falsely makes a claim that he is the owner of 
the registered industrial design or represents 
that he is acting in the capacity of, or on behalf 
of the owner of the registered industrial design, 
shall be gUilty of an offence and is liable on conviction 
to a fine not exceeding fifteen thousand ringgit or to 
imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to 
both. IPINI1 IMYS/DI 1 
Page 26 
37. False representation' of registration. 
(1) Any person who falsely represents that anything 
disposed of by him for value is an article protected by 
an industrial design registration commits an offence and 
shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding 
fifteen thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term 
not exceeding two years or to both. 
(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), a person who 
for value disposes of any article having stamped, ~ngraved 
or impressed thereon or otherwise applied thereto the 
words ~'registered industrial design" or any other word 
or words expressing or implying that the article is one 
to which a registered industrial design has been applied, 
shall be taken to represent that the article is one protected 
by an industrial design registration. 
(3) Subsection (1) does not apply where the 
representation is made in respect of an industrial design 
after the registration in respect of that industrial design 
has expired or been revoked and before the end of a 
period which is reasonably sufficient to enable that person 
to take steps to ensure that the representation is not made 
or does not continue to be made. 
(4) In proceedings for an qffence under this section, 
it shall be a defence for any person to prove that he used 
due diligence to prevent the commission of the offence. 
(5) This section shaH have effect in relation to a right 
to apply for the registration of an industrial design as 
they have effect in relation to a registered industrial 
design, and references to a registered industrial design 
shall include references to a right to apply for the 
registration of an industrial design. 
38. Use of title "Industrial Designs Registration Office". 
Any person who uses on his place of business or 
any document issued by him or otherwise the words 
"Industrial Designs Registration Office" or any other 
words suggesting that his place of business is, or is 
officially connected with, the Industrial Designs 
Registration Office commits an offence and is liable on 
conviction to a fine not exceeding fifteen thousand ringgit 
or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years 
or to both. 39. Offences by body corporate. IPINI1/MYS/DIl 
Page 27 
(l) Where an offence under this Act committed by 
a body corporate is proved to have been committed with 
the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to any 
neglect on the part of a director, manager. secretary or 
other similar officer of the body corporate, or any person 
who was purporting to act in any such capacity, he. as 
well as the body corporate, shall be gUilty of that offence 
and shaH be liable to be prosecuted against and punished 
accordingly as provided by this Act. 
(2) Where the affairs of a body corporate are 
managed by its members, subsection (l) shall apply in 
relation to the acts and defaults of a member in connection 
with his functions of management as if he were a director 
of the body corporate. 
PART VIII 
OTHER POWERS OF THE REGISTRAR 
40. Amendment of registered industrial design. 
(1) The owner of a registered industrial design may, 
in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Minister, 
request the Registrar to amend a registered industrial 
design or any document associated therewith for the 
purpose of correcting a clerical error, obvious mistake 
or for any other reason acceptable to the Registrar. 
(2) The request for amendment shall be accompanied 
by the prescribed fee. 
(3) Except for the purpose of correcting a clerical 
error or an obvious mistake, no amendment shall be 
permitted under this section if the amendment would 
have the effect of disclosing matters which extend beyond 
that disclosed before the amendment, or extending the 
protection conferred at the time of registration of the 
industrial design in question. 
(4 ) No amendment shall be allowed to be made in the 
registration of an industrial design under this section 
where there are pending before the court proceedings in 
which the validity of the registration of the industrial 
design may be put in issue. IPIN11/MYS/D/I 
Page 28 
(5) Where the Register has been amended under this 
section, the Registrar may require the certificate of 
registration to be submitted to him and may cancel the 
certificate of registration and issue a new certificate of 
registration with such consequential amendments as are 
rendered necessary by the amendment of the Register. 
41. General powers of Registrar. 
(1) The Registrar may generally for the purposes of 
this Act-
(a) summon witnesses; 
(b) receive evidence on oath; 
( c) require the production of any document or article' , 
and 
(d) award costs as against a party to any proceedings 
before him. 
(2) Any person who without any lawful excuse fails 
to comply with any summons, order or direction made 
by the Registrar under paragraph (l)(a), (l)(b) or (l)(c) 
commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine 
not exceeding two thousand ringgit or to imprisonment 
for a term not exceeding six months or to both. 
(3) Costs awarded by the Registrar may in default of 
payment be recovered in a court of competent jurisdiction 
by the person to whom the costs were awarded. 
42. Exercise of discretionary power. 
Where any discretionary power is given to the 
Registrar by this Act or any regulations made under this 
Act, he shall not exercise the power on any person who 
may be adversely affected by his decision without giving 
to the person an opportunity of being heard. 
43. Extension of time. 
Subject to the provisions of subsection 17(2) and 
section 50, where by this Act or any regulations made 
under this Act, a time is specified within which an act 
or thing is to be done, the Registrar may. unless otherwise 
expressly directed by the Court, extend the time either 
before or ·after its expiration, upon payment of the 
prescribed fee. PART IX 
MISCELLANEOUS 
44. Service by post IP/NIlIMYS/DI 1 
Page 29 
Any notice required or authorised to be given under 
this Act or regulations made under this Act, ~d any 
application or other document so required or authorised 
to be made or filed, may be given, made or filed by 
post. 
45. Agent. 
(1) Where by this Act or-any regulations made under 
this Act any act has to be done by or to .any person in 
connection with an industrial design or any procedure 
relating thereto, the act may. under and in accordance 
with this Act and any regulations made under this Act 
or in particular cases by special leave of the Registrar, 
be done by or to an agent of that person duly authorised 
in the prescribed manner. 
(2) The Registrar shall not be bound to recognise such 
agent who has been convicted of crimes involving fraud 
or dishonesty, or is an undischarged bankrupt or had 
been struck off or otherwise removed from the register 
of membership of any professional body. or suspended 
for the time being from practising by any such body or 
committee thereof. 
46. Appeal. 
(1) Any person aggrieved by any decision or order 
of the Registrar may appeal to the Court. 
(2) The same rules of procedure on appeal shall apply 
to appeals made under subsection (1) as to appeals to 
the High Court from a decision of a subordinate court 
in civil matters. 
47. Regulations. 
(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, the Minister 
may make regulations for the purpose of carrying into 
effect the provisions of this Act. 
(2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality 
of subsection (1), regulations made under this section 
may provide for an or any of the following: 
(a) to regulate the procedure to be followed in 
connection with any proceeding or other matter 
before the Registrar or the Industrial Designs 
Registration Office under this Act including the 
service of documents; IPlNllIMYS/D/l 
Page 30 
( b) to classify articles for the purpose of registration 
of industrial designs: 
(c) to make or require duplication of documents 
connected with the registration of industrial 
designs; 
(d) to prescribe fees to be paid in connection with 
any proceeding or other matter or in connection 
with the provision of any service by the Registrar 
or the Industrial Designs Registration Office, 
and to prescribe the amount of such fees and 
to allow different fees in certain circumstances 
for certain prescribed cases; 
( e) to prescribe forms and other matters to be used 
under this Act; 
(/) to regulate the keeping of the Register and to 
prescribe the form and contents thereof; 
(g) to regulate the mode of giving evidence in any 
proceeding before the Registrar under this Act 
and to empower the Registrar to compel the 
attendance of witnesses and the discovery and 
production of documents; 
(h) for doing anything required to be done in 
connection with any proceeding or other matter 
before the Registrar or the Industrial Designs 
Registration Office; 
(i) to govern the recognition of agents representing 
applicants or other parties before the Registrar 
or the Industrial Designs Registration Office, 
and to prescribe qualifications and other 
conditions to be satisfied by such agents before 
being permitted to appear before the Registrar 
or the Industrial Designs Registration Office, 
and to otherwise regulate their conduct as such 
agents; 
(j) to prescribe time limits; and 
(k) to regulate generally matters pertaining to the 
business of the registration of industrial designs 
carried on in the Industrial Designs Registration 
Office whether or not specially prescribed under 
this Act. 48. Convention countries. IPINl1lMYS/D/l 
Page 31 
(1) The Minister may. by order published in the 
Gazette with a view to the fulfilment of a treaty, 
convention, arrangement or engagement between Malaysia 
and another country. declare that a country specified in 
the order is a convention country for the purposes of 
this Act. 
(2) Where the Minister, by order declares that an 
application for protection in respect of an industrial design 
is, in accordance with the terms of a treaty subsisting 
between two or more convention countries, equivalent 
to an application made in one of those convention 
countries, the first-mentioned application shall, for the 
purposes of this Act, be deemed to have been made in 
that convention country. 
(3) Where the Minister, by order, declares that an 
application for protection in respect of an industrial design 
is, in accordance with the law of a convention country. 
equivalent to an application made in that convention 
country, the first -mentioned application shall, for the 
purposes of this Act, be deemed to have been made in 
that convention country. 
49. Repeal and saving provisions. 
(1) The United Kingdom Designs (Protection) Act 
1949, the United Kingdom Designs (Protection) Ordinance" 
of Sabah, and the Designs (United Kingdom) Ordinance 
of Sarawak (hereinafter collectively referred to as the 
"repealed laws") are repealed. 
(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1)-
(a) any subsidiary legislation made under the 
repealed laws shall in so far as such subsidiary 
legislation is not inconsistent with the provisions 
of this Act continue in force and have effect 
as if it had been made under this Act and may 
be repealed, extended, varied or amended 
accordingly; IPINllIMYS/DIl 
Page 32 
(b) any appointment made under the repealed laws 
or subsidiary legislation made under the repealed 
laws shall continue in force and have effect as 
if it had been made under this Act unless the 
Minister otherwise directs; 
( c) any registration protected under the repealed 
laws and in force immediately prior to the 
coming into force of this Act shaH, subject to 
the terms, conditions and the period of validity 
specified in the registration, continue in force 
and have the like effect as if it had been effected 
under this Act, but any extension thereafter shall 
be in accordance with subsection 50(2). 
so. Transitional. 
(1) Where, prior to the coming into force of this 
~ct. an application for registration of an industrial design 
has been made under The Registered Design Act 1949 
of the United Kingdom as amended by the Copyright, 
Designs and Patents Act 1988 of the United Kingdom 
and is pending registration. the applicant may, within a 
period of twelve months from the coming into force of 
this Act, make an application for the registration of the 
industrial design under this Act, and such application 
shall be accorded the priority date which has been accorded 
to it in the United Kingdom. 
(2) A certificate of registration granted under the 
Registered Designs Act 1949 of the United Kingdom 
shall have the maximum period of validity accorded ~nder 
the repealed laws and for this purpose, the extension 
procedure shall be as prescribed in the regulations made 
under section 47 of this Act. Amending law INDUSTRIAL DESIGNS ACT 1996 
(Act 552) 
LIST OF AMENDMENTS IP/NIIIMYS/DI1 
Page 33 
Short Title/Sections affected In force from IPlNllIMYS/DIJ 
Page 34 
INDUSTRIAL DESIGNS REGULATIONS 1999 
ARRANGEMENT OF REGULATIONS 
Regulation PART I 
PRELIMINARY 
1. Citation and commencement. 
2. Interpretation. 
3. Prescribed fee and surcharge. 
4. Forms. 
PARTII 
APPLICATION AND PROCEDURE FOR REGISTRATION OF 
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN 
5. Application for registration of an industrial design. 
6. Language of documents and translations. 
7. Classification. 
8. Name, address, nationality and resid~nce. 
9. Common representative. 
10. Size, etc. of documents. 
11. Numbering of industrial designs. 
12. Statement of novelty. 
13. Disclosure to be disregarded as prior disclosure. 
14. Declaration claiming priority and translation of earlier application. 
15. Representation which consists of a repeating surface pattern. 
16. Consent to registration. 
17. Associated application in respect of other articles, etc. 
18. According and notifying filing date. 
19. Formal requirements and examination. 
20. Certificate of registration. 
21. Particulars to be recorded in the Register. 
22. Publication of contents of registration. PART III 
PERIOD OF REGISTRATION 
Regulation 
23. Extension of period of registration. 
24. Request for restoration. 
25. Notice of opposition to restoration. 
PART IV IPINIlIMYS/DI 1 
Page 35 
ASSIGNMENT, TRANSMISSION, RECTIFICATION OF REGISTER OR 
REVOCATION OF REGISTRATION 
26. Application to record assignment, transmission or other operation of law. 
27. Application for rectification or request for revocation. 
28. Application to Court 
29. Order of Court. 
PART V 
MISCELLANEOUS 
30. Amendment of application and registered industrial design. 
31. Discretionary power and opportunity to be heard. 
32. Appointment of an agent. 
33. Registration of agents. 
34. Power to require documents. 
35. Evidence. 
36. Statutory declarations and affidavits. 
37. Power to dispense with evidence. 
38. Rectification of irregularities. 
39. Signatures on documents. 
40. Address for service. 
41. Excluded days. 
42. Service by post. 
43. Request for extension of time. 
44. Time for inspection of Register. 
45. Request for copies or extracts. 
46. Inspection of files. 
FIRST SCHEDULE 
SECOND SCHEDULE 
THIRD SCHEDULE 
FOURTH SCHEDULE IPINIIIMYS/DIl 
Page 36 
INDUSTRIAL DESIGNS REGULATIONS 1999 
IN exercise of the powe~s. conferred by section 4? of the Industrial Designs Act 
1996 [Act 552], the Minister makes the followmg regulations: 
PART I 
PRELIMINARY 
1. Citation and commencement. 
(1) These regulations may be cited as the Industrial Designs Regulations 
1999. 
(2) These Regulations shall come into operation on 1 September 1999. 
2. Interpretation. 
(1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires-
"Office" means the Industrial Designs Registration Office or any of its 
branch offices established under section 5; 
"priority date" means the filing date of the earlier application that serves as 
the basis for the right of priority as provided for in section 17. 
(2) A reference to a section, subsection or paragraph in these Regulations 
shall be a reference to a section, subsection or paragraph in the Act. 
3. Prescribed fee and surcharge. 
The fees, surcharge and other payment to be paid under the Act and these 
Regulations shall be as prescribed in the First Schedule. 
4. Forms. 
(1) The forms referred to in these Regulations are those contained in the 
Second Schedule. 
(2) Copies of the printed forms shaH be furnished free of charge by the 
Registrar. 
PART U 
APPLICA nON AND PROCEDURE FOR REGfSTRA nON 
OF INDUSTRIAL DESIGN 
5. Application for regist.ration of an industrial design. 
(1) An application for the registration of an industrial design shall be made 
on ID Form 1 accompanied by the prescribed fee. IPINllIMYS/D/l 
Page 37 
(2) The application shaH be signed by the applicant or an agent appointed 
by the applicant in accordance with regulation 32. 
(3) Where the applicant is the author, the application shall contain a statement 
to that effect, and, where he is not, the application shall specify each author's 
name and addtess and be accompanieu by a statement justifying the applicant's 
right to the registration. 
(4) Where pursuant to section 15, two or more industrial designs are the 
subject of the same application, the applicant shaH specify the number of 
designs and pay the prescribed additional fees. 
6. Language of documents and translations. 
(1) The application for registration of an industrial design shall be in the 
national language or the English language. 
(2) Where the application or any document forming part of an application 
is in a language other than the national language or the English language the 
application shall be accompanied by a certified translation and the name of the 
language. 
7. Classification. 
The application shall indicate a class or subclass in accordance with the 
International Classification for Industrial Designs. 
8. Name, address, nationality and residence. 
(1) Names of natural persons shall be specified in full and the names of legal 
entities shall be indicated by their fun official designation. 
(2) Addresses shall be indicated in such a way as to satisfy the customary 
requirements for prompt postal delivery and, in any case shaH comprise of all 
the relevant administrative units, including the house number, telegraphic and 
telex addresses and facsimile and telephone number, if any. 
(3) The nationality of an applicant shaH be indicated by the name of the 
country of which he is a national and legal entities shaH indicate the name of 
the country in which the entities are constituted and their registered office. 
9. Common representative. 
If an application is submitted by more than one applicant and the applicants 
have not appointed an agent to represent them-
(a) the applicants shaH designate one of them as their common representative; 
or 
(b) if the applicants do not designate one of them as their common 
representative, the applicant first named in the application shall be 
considered the common representative. IP/NIlIMYS/D/l 
Page 38 
10. Size, etc. of documents • 
. (1) Subject to any. dir.ections ~hat may be giv~n by the Registrar in any 
particular case, an apphcatlOns, notIces, papers havmg representations thereon 
and other documents filed under the Act or these Regulations- ' 
(a) shaH be in A4 size (29.7 cm x 21 cm) strong paper; 
(b) except where otherwise required, shaH appear on one side only; 
(c) shaH be free from cracks, creases or folds; and 
(d) shaH be so presented as to admit of direct reproduction by photography, 
electrostatic process, photo offset and microfilming, with representations 
appearing on one side with a left-hand margin of approximately 3 cm. 
(2) Representations shaH be filed in six copies. 
(3) Where representations consist of specimens, the specimens shaH be of 
a size not exceeding 20 cm x 20 cm x 20 cm. 
(4) The Registrar may require the specimens to be replaced by representations 
comprising of drawings. tracings or photographs. 
(5) The photographs and drawings shaH be of a size of 12.5 cm x 9 cm. 
(6) In an application where words, letters or numerals appear in an industrial 
design, the Registrar may require that a disclaimer of any right to their exclusive 
use shaH appear on each representation. 
11. Numbering of industrial designs. 
(1) Each industrial design contained in an application shall be given a 
number. 
(2) The numbering shall ,appear in the margin next to each representation. 
(3) When the same article is represented on the representation from different 
angles, the numbering shaH consist of two separate figures separated by a dot. 
(4) Each industrial design included in a multiple application shall be shown 
by a different number. 
12. Statement of novelty. 
(1) Except in the case of an application to register the pattern or ornament 
of a design to be applied to a textile article, to wallpaper or similar wan 
covering or to lace or to sets of textile articles, wallpaper or similar wall 
covering or lace, the statement of novelty required under paragraph 14( 1)( c) 
shall appear on each representation. 
(2) The statement of novelty shaH appear only on the front of the first sheet 
of each representation except in a case which the Registrar, in the guidelines 
issued by him specifies that it is impracticable, such statement shall appear at 
a place specified by the Registrar the same guidelines, and shall be separated 
from any other statement or disclaimer. 13. Disclosure to be disregarded as prior disclosure. IPlNllIMYS/D/l 
Page Jf) 
In a case where an applicant is aware, at the time of filing his application, 
of relevant prior disclosure which may qualify to be disregarded under subsection 
12(3) for the purposes of determining whether his industrial design or designs 
is or are new, he shaH either state the facts in a statement accompanying his 
application or he shall notify the Registrar as soon as practicable, in writing, 
giving the relevant facts. 
14. Declaration claiming priority and translation of earlier application. 
(1) The declaration referred to in subsection 17(2) shaH be made at the 
time of filing an application for registration of an industrial design and shaH 
specify-
(a) the date of the earlier application; 
( b) subject to subregulation (2), the number of the earlier application; 
(c) subject to subregulation (3), the class and subclass number in accordance 
with the International Classification for Industrial Designs which has 
been allocated to the earlier application~ 
(d) the name of the country in which the earlier application was filed or, 
where the earlier application is a regional or an international application, 
the name of the country or countries for which the regional or international 
application was filed; and 
( e) where the earlier application is a regional or an international application, 
the office with which the application was filed. 
(2) Where at the time of filing the declaration referred to in subregulation 
0), the number of the earlier application is not known, that number shaH be 
furnished within three months from the date on which the application containing 
the declaration was filed. 
(3) Where a class or subclass number of the International Classification for 
Industrial Designs has not been allocated to the earlier application, or had not 
yet been allocated at the time of filing the declaration referred to in subregulation 
(1), the applicant shall state the fact in the declaration and shall communicate 
such class or subclass number as soon as it has been allocated. 
(4) The applicant may, at any time before registration of an industrial design, 
amend the contents of the declaration referred to in subregulation (1). 
(5) The period for furnishing a certified copy of the earlier application, 
referred to in subsection 17(3), shall be three months from the date of the 
request by the Registrar, and where a copy has already been furnished for 
another application, the applicant may respond by making a reference to that 
other aoolication. 
(6) Where the earlier application 1S m a language other than the national 
language or the English language, the applicant shall, within six months from 
the date of the request by the Registrar referred to in subregulation (5), furnish 
a certified translation of the earlier application in the national language or the 
English language. IPINIlfMYSJDIl 
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(7) Where the Registrar treats the declaration of priority as invalid under 
subsection 17(5), he shall inform the applicant in writing of the reason or 
reasons. 
15. Representation wbicb consists of a repeating surface pattern. 
Each representation of an industrial design which consists of a repeating 
surface pattern shaH show a complete pattern and a sufficient portion of the 
repea.t in length and width, and shall be of a size not less than 18 cm x 13 cm 
x 1 g cm x 13 cm. 
16. Consent to registration. 
(1) Where a potrait of Seri Paduka Baginda Yang di-Pertuan Agong or, 
Ruler of a State, or the reproduction of the armorial bearings, insignia, orders 
of chivalry, decorations of flags of any country, state, city, town, society, body 
corporate, institution or person appears on an industrial design, the Registrar 
shall consider whether to refuse to accept an application for the registration of 
the industrial design unless a consent to the registration and use of such potfait 
or reproduction from such official or other person as appears to the Registrar 
to be entitled to give consent is filed. 
(2) In default of the consent referred to in subregulation (1) the Registrar 
shall refuse to register the industrial design. 
17. Associated application in respect of otbe:r artides~ etc. 
Where the application is for the registration of an industrial design which 
has already been registered in respect of one or more articles, or consists of 
Cl registered industrial design with modifications or variations not sufficient to 
alter the character or to substantially affect the identity of the industrial design, 
and it is desired to claim the protection of section 23 for such application, it 
shall contain-
(a) the number or numbers of the registration or registrations already 
effected or the application or applications already made, as the case 
may be; and 
(b) the number of the industrial design which is the subject of such 
registration or application. 
18. Acco:rding and notifying filing date. 
(1) The Registrar shall cause the application for registration of an industrial 
design to be examined to determine whether the application satisfies the conditions 
under section 16. 
(2) Where the Registrar finds that the application did not at the time of 
receipt satisfy the conditions referred to in subregulation (1), he shall, by notice 
require the applicant to file a correction and shall accord as the filing date the 
date of receipt of the correction, but if no correction is made within three 
months from the date of the notice, the application shall be deemed to hay~ not 
been filed. IPINI1IMYS/DI1 
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(3) The requirement to file a correction under subregulation (2) shall be in 
writing and shaH specify the correction or corrections required. 
(4) Once the Registrar accords a filing date, he shall send to the applicant 
a certificate of filing in the form of a copy of the application form with the 
filing date and application number marked on it. 
(5) If the application is deemed to have not been filed, the Registrar shall 
notify the applicant in writing, specifying the reason or reasons. 
19. Formal requirements and examination. 
(1) For the purposes of subsection 21(5) the requirements of regulations 
3 to 14 shall be designated as formal requirements. 
(2) Where the Registrar determines that the application does not satisfy any 
of the formal requirements, the Registrar shaH notify the applicant in writing 
and give him an opportunity to make observations on such finding and amend 
the application within three months from the date of the notification. 
(3) If within the specified period, the applicant fails to satisfy the Registrar 
that the formal requirements have been complied with, or to amend the application 
so as to comply with the requirements the Registrar may refuse the application 
or, in the case of a multiple application, exclude from the registration any 
industrial design in respect of which the requirements have not been complied 
with. 
(4) The Registrar shaH notify the applicant, in writing, of his decision to 
accept or refuse the application or to exclude the industrial design. 
(5) An application which, owing to any default or neglect on the part of the 
applicant has not been completed so as to enable registration to be effected 
within twelve months from the date of application shall be deemed to be 
withdrawn. 
20. Certificate of registration. 
(1) The certificate of registration of an industrial design referred to in 
paragraph 22(1)(b) shall be in the form set out in the Third Schedule. 
(2) Where pursuant to section 15 two or more industrial designs are the 
subject of the same application, the Registrar shall, issue a common certificate 
of registration for those designs. 
21. Particulars to be recorded in the Register. 
The Register ofIndustrial Designs shaH contain in respect of h' d . 
d . ' • . eac m uStr'ial eSlgn-
(a) the particulars given in the certificate of registration; 
(b) an entry made under subregulation 26(2); 
(c) the date on which the industrial design expired, or was surrendered 
or invalidated; > IP/N/I/MYS/D/l 
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(d) the name of the agent appointed in accordance with regulation 32, his 
address or the address for service, if any; and 
(e) the name of the country or countries in which or for which any earlier 
application was filed from which priority is claimed. 
22. Publication of contents of registration. 
In addition to the matters to be published in the Gazette under subsection 
22(2), there shaH also be published-
(a) the particulars recorded in the Register under regulation 21; 
(b) a representation of the industrial design; and 
(c) any change in ownership of a registration under subregulation 26(1) 
with details on-
(i) the number of the application or registration, as the case may 
be, of the industrial design; 
(ii) the filing date, the priority date, if any, and the date of registration; 
(m) the owner and the new owner; and 
(iv) the nature of the change of ownership. 
PART HI 
PERIOD OF REGISTRA nON 
23. Extension of period of registration. 
(1) An application for extension of the period of registration under subsection 
25(2) shall be made on ID Form 2 accompanied by the prescribed fee, within 
six months before the expiration of the current term or upon payment of the 
prescribed surcharge in the period of grace allowed under subsection 25(3). 
(2) Upon extension of the period of registration, the Registrar shaH issue a 
certificate of extension in the form set out in the Fourth Schedule. 
(3) The lapse of a registration for non-payment of the prescribed extension 
fee shaH be recorded in the Register in respect of aB the industrial designs 
affected. 
(4) This regulation shall also apply to the extension of the period of registration 
of industrial designs mentioned in subsection 50(2). 
(5) Any extension fee paid shaH not be refundable. 
24. Request for restoration. 
(1) A request for restoration of a lapsed registration pursuant to subsection 
26(1) shaH be made to the Registrar on ID Form 3 together with the prescribed 
fee and statement supporting the request. 
(2) If, upon consideration of the application, the Registrar is not satisfied 
that a case for restoration under subsection 26(2) has been made out, he shaH 
notify the applicant accordingly and, unless within one month from the date of 
the notification the applicant requests to be heard, the Registrar shaH refuse the 
request. IPlNllIMYS/DIl 
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(3) If the applicant requests a hearing within one month from the date of 
the notification referred to in subregulation (2), the Registrar shall, after giving 
him an opportunity to be heard by filing in written submissions within a specified 
time, determine whether the request shaH be aUowed or refused. 
(4) If the Registrar decides to allow the application he shall notify the 
applicant accordingly and require him to file ID Form 2 together with the 
prescribed fee, any outstanding extension fee and the prescribed surcharge. 
25. Notice of opposition to restoration. 
A notice of opposition to the restoration of a registered industrial design 
under subsection 26(3) shaH be made to the Registrar on ID Form 4 accompanied 
by the prescribed fee. 
PART IV 
ASSIGNMENT, TRANSMISSION, RECTIFICATION OF REGISTER OR 
REVOCATION OF REGISTRATION 
26. Application to record assignment, transmission or other operation. 
oflaw. 
(1) An application under subsection 30(1) to record in the Register an 
assignment, transmission or other operation of law affecting rights in a registered 
industrial design or an application for the registration of an industrial design 
shall-
(a) be made to the Registrar on ID Form 5; and 
(b) be accompanied by the prescribed fee, a certified copy of the assignment, 
transmission or other operation of law, as the case may be. 
(2) Where satisfied that the application has been completed, the Registrar 
shaH make such entry in the Register as he thinks fit. 
27. Application for :rectification or request for :revocation.. 
(1) An application to the Registrar for rectification of the Register pursuant 
to subsection 24(3) or a request for revocation of registration of the industrial 
design under subsection 27(2) shaH be made on ID Form 6 accompanien hv the 
prescribed fee and a statement setting out fuBy the applicant's interest and the 
facts upon which he relies. 
(2) Where th~ a~plicant is other than the owner o.f the industrial design, a 
copy of the applicatlOn and the statement referred to In subregulation (1) shaH 
be given to the owner. 
(3) If the owner desires to oppose the application for rectification of the 
Register or revocation of registration of the industrial design he shaH within 
three months from the date of receipt of the application file a notice of opposition 
which shall include a statement of the grounds upon which the owner objects 
to the application and shall give a copy to the applicant. 
(4) An owner who does not file a notice of opposition shaH be deemed to 
have no objection. IPINIl/MYS/DIl 
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(5) Within two months from the date of receipt of the notice of opposition 
filed in accordance with subregulation (3), the applicant may file a counter-statement 
setting out the grounds on which he relies as supporting his application and the 
facts, if any, alleged in the notice of opposition which he admits, and shaH at 
the same time give a copy to the owner. 
(6) If no counter-statement is filed in accordance with subregulation (5), the 
application shall be deemed abandoned. 
(7) If a counter-statement is filed in accordance with subregulation (5), the 
Registrar shall, after giving the owner and the applicant an opportunity to be 
heard by filing in written submissions within a specified time, decide on the 
matter. 
28. Application to Court. 
Cl) An application to the Court under paragraph 24(1)( a), subsection 24(3) 
or paragraph 27(1)(a), (b) or (e) may be made by notice of motion. 
(2) A copy of the application under subregulation (1) shall be given to the 
Registrar on ID Form 7 by filing it at the. Office. 
(3) The application under subsection 24( l) or (3) shaH be made to the Court 
within one month from the date of the publication in the Gazette referred to 
in subsection 22(2). 
(4) The time specified in subregulation (3) may be extended by the Court 
or the Registrar upon the application of any interested party, notwithstanding 
that the time so specified has expired. 
29. Order of Court. 
(1) Where an order is made by the Court, the applicant shaH file an office 
copy of the order with the Registrar and, if rectification of the Register is 
required, ID Form 8 accompanied by the prescribed fee. 
(2) The Register shall, where appropriate be rectified ~y the Registrar 
accordingly_ 
PART V 
MISCELLANEOUS 
30. Amendment of application and registered industrial design. 
(1) A request to amend an application for the registration of an industrial 
design or a registered industrial design or any document associated therewith 
under subsection 19(1) or 40(1), shall be made on ID Form 9 accompanied by 
the prescribed fee. 
(2) Where a request under subregulation 0) relates to the correction of a 
clerical error or obvious mistake, the request shaH be accompanied by evidence 
stating the circumstances in which the error or mistake occurred. IPIN/1IMYS/DIl 
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(3) Amendments or corrections made shall be communicated in writing to 
all interested persons and where he considers necessary, the Registrar shall 
cause the amendments or corrections to be published in the Gazette. 
(4) Corrections of obvious clerical errors may be made by the Registrar on 
his own initiative. In that case, subregulation (3) shaH apply mutatis mutandis. 
31. Discretionary power and opportunity to be heard. 
(1) The Registrar shall serve a notice on an owner of an industrial design 
or any interested person of his intention to exercise adversely any discretionary 
power given to him by the Act or these Regulations. 
(2) The person on whom a notice is served under subregulation (1) shall, 
within two months from the date of the notice, make written representations 
to the Registrar which shall be taken into consideration by the Registrar to 
arrive at a decision. 
(3) If no written representations are made within the prescribed period, the 
Registrar may proceed to exercise his power in the absence of such representation. 
(4) The decision of the Registrar in the exercise of any such discretionary 
power shaH be notified to the person affected. 
32. Appointment of an agent. 
(l) Except as otherwise required by the Act or these Regulations, any 
person may be represented in proceedings before the Office by an agent who 
may attend, file and sign documents on that person's behalf. 
(2) Where a person becomes a party to proceedings before the Registrar 
appoints an agent for the first time or appoints an agent in substitution for 
another, the agent appointed shaH file ID Form 10 with the Registrar, in duplicate 
on or before the first occasion on which he acts as an agent for that party in 
the proceedings. 
(3) No person may appoint more than one agent to act for him concurrently 
in respect of the same industrial design, whether in respect of the same or 
different transactions; and where more than one agent is on record, the Registrar 
shall recognize only the latest agent duly appointed. 
(4) The Registrar shaH decline to recognize as an agent any person who is 
not currently on the Register of Industrial Designs Agents of Malaysia compiled 
and maintained under regulation 33. 
33. Registration of agents. 
0) The Registrar shaH maintain a Register of Industrial Designs Agents. 
(2) An application to be registered as an industrial design agent shaH be 
made to the Registrar on ID Form 11 accompanied by the prescribed fee. 
(3) In order to be registered in the Register of Industrial Designs Agents, 
the applicant shall satisfy the Registrar that he is either domiciled or resident 
in Malaysia or has a principal place of business in Malaysia, and-
(a) is on the Register of Patents Agents maintained in pursuance of 
regulations made under the Patents Act 1983 [Act 291); IP/N/l/MYS/DIl 
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( b) is an advocate and solicitor practising solely in Malaysia; or 
(c) holds a recognized degree in any field of studies and has had at least 
three years experience in the field of industrial property. 
(4) The Registrar shall not register any person who has been convicted of 
any registrable offence or any criminal offence involving fraud or dishonesty. 
(5) The Registrar, upon being satisfied that the applicant qualifies to be 
registered in the Register of Industrial Designs Agents, shall register the applicant 
for a term expiring on 31 December of that year. 
(6) An agent shall be removed from the Register of Industrial Designs 
Agents if he-
(a) is no longer domiciled or resident in Malaysia or no longer has a 
principal place of business in Malaysia; 
(b) is convicted of a registrable offence or any criminal offence involving 
fraud or dishonesty; or 
(c) has been struck off and not restored to the Register of Patents Agents 
or the Ron of Advocates and Solicitors or is suspended for the time 
being from that Register or that RolL 
(7) An application for the extension of registration as an industrial design 
agent shall be made to the Registrar on ID Form 12 together with payment of 
the prescribed fee before 31 January of each year. 
(8) The Registrar shaH, upon being satisfied that the conditions specified in 
subregulations (3) and (4) continue to be satisfied, extend the registration of 
an industrial design agent for a term expiring on 31 December of that year. 
34. Power to require documents. 
At any stage of any proceedings before the Registrar, he may direct that 
additional documents, information or evidence be furnished within such period 
as he may determine. 
35. Evidence. 
(1) Where under these Regulations evidence may be filed, the evidence 
shaH be by statutory declaration or affidavit. 
(2) The Registrar may, if he thinks fit, in any particular case, take oral 
evidence in lieu of or in addition to such evidence and shaH allow any witness 
to be cross-examined on his declaration or affidavit. 
36. Statutory declarations and affidavits. 
(1) Any statutory declaration or affidavit filed under these Regulations or 
used in any proceedings under it, shall be made and subscribed as follows: 
(a) in Malaysia, in accordance with the provisions of the Statutory 
Declarations Act 1960 [Act 13] or the Rules of the High Court 1980 
CP. U. (A) 50180], as the case may be; I PINIlIMYS/DIl 
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(b) in any other part of the world before any court, judge, justice of the 
peace, magistrate, notary public, consul or other officer authorized by 
law in that part of the world to administer an oath for the purpose 
of any legal proceedings. 
(2) Any document purporting to have affixed, impressed or subscribed thereto 
or thereon the seal or signature of any person authorized by subregulation (1) 
to take a declaration or to attest an affidavit may be admitted without proof of 
the genuineness of the seal or signature or of the official character of the person 
or his authority to take the declaration or to attest the affidavit. 
37. Power to dispense with evidence. 
Where, under these Regulations, any person is required to do any act or 
thing, or any document or evidence is required to be produced or filed, and it 
is shown to the satisfaction of the Registrar that by any reasonable cause that 
person is unable to do that act or thing or that document or evidence cannot 
be produced or filed, the Registrar may, upon the production of such other 
evidence and subject to such terms as he thinks fit, dispense with the doing of 
any such act or thing, or the production or filing of such document or evidence. 
38. Rectification of irregularities. 
Any irregularity in procedure in or before the Office may be rectified on 
such terms as the Registrar may direct. 
39. Signatures on documents. 
(1) A document purporting to be sighed for or on behalf of a partnershi 
shaH contain the names of aB the partners in fun and shaH be signed- p 
(a) by aB the partners; 
(b) by the principal acting partner stating that he signs on behalf of all 
the partners; or 
( c) by an agent or any other person who satisfies the Registrar that he 
is authorized to sign the document. 
(2) A document purporting to be signed for or on behalf of a body corporate 
shall be signed-
(a) by a director or the secretary or other principal officer of the body 
corporate; or 
(b) by an agent or any other person who satisfies the Registrar that he 
is authorized to sign the document. 
(3) A document purporting to be signed for or on behalf of an association 
of persons other than a partnership may be signed by the secretary or an agent 
or any other person who satisfies the Registrar that the person is authorized to 
sign the document on behalf of the association. 
(4) The Registrar may, whenever he deems it necessary, request evidence 
of authorization to sign. IPlNlI/MYS/D/l 
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40. Address for service. 
(1) Subject to subsection 14(2), any person concerned with any proceedings 
under the Act or any regulations made under it shaH furnish to the Registrar 
an address for service in Malaysia which may be treated for all purposes 
concerning with or relating to such proceedings as the actual address of the 
person concerned. 
(2) Notwithstanding subregulation (1), where an agent has been appointed, 
the address for service shall be the address of the agent. 
(3) Notwithstanding subregulations (1) and (2), the address for service in 
Malaysia of a person applying for registration of an industrial design shall, 
following registration, be treated as the address for service in Malaysia of the 
owner of the industrial design unless an alternative address for service is 
furnished. 
41. Excluded days. 
Whenever the last day fixed by the Act or by these Regulations for doing 
any act or thing at the Office falls on a day which is an excluded day, it shaH 
be lawful to do the act or thing on the first day following such excluded day 
which is not an excluded day. 
42. Service by post. 
Any notice, application or other document required by the Act or these 
Regulations to be sent by post shaH be sent by A.R. registered post and shall 
be deemed to have been given, made or filed at the time when it would have 
been delivered in the ordinary course of such post. 
43. Request for extension of time. 
(1) A request under section 43 for an extension of time shaH be made to 
the Registrar on ID Form 13 accompanied by the prescribed fee. 
(2) The maximum period for extension of time shall not exceed three months 
from the specified date. 
44. Time for inspection of Register. 
The Register shall be opened for the inspection of the public during 
working hours. 
45. Request for copies or extracts. 
Any request for certified or uncertified copies of or extracts from any 
entry or document in the Register shaH be made on ID Form 14 accompanied 
by the prescribed fee. 
46. Inspection of files. 
Any file relating to an assignment, transmission or other operation of law 
may be inspected and copies obtained from it only with the written permission 
of an interested person. FIRST SCHEDULE 
FEES 
(Regulation 3) 
Matters or Proceedings 
1. Application for the registration 
of an industrial design: 
for a single design 
for each additional design 
specified 
(Regulation 5) 
Publication for each view of the 
representation contained in 
the application 
(Regulations 10 and 22) 
Matters or Proceedings 
2. Application for extension of the 
period of registration: 
for second period of-
(a) a single industrial 
design 
(b) each additional 
industrial design 
for third period of-
(a) a single industrial 
design 
(b) each additional 
industrial design 
Surcharge shall be payable under 
subsection 25(3) in respect of 
period of grace in making 
application for the extension 
of period of registration: 
for each period of one 
month (not exceeding six 
months in total) 
(Regulation 23) 
3. Request to restore a registered 
industrial design Amount of Fee 
RM 
400.00 
200.00 
50.00 
Amount of Fee 
RM 
600.00 
300.00 
800.00 
400.00 
100.00 
600.00 IP/NI1IMYS/DIl 
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Industrial Design 
(ID) Form 
Industrial. Design 
(ID) Form 
2 
3 fPINIl/MYS/DIl 
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(Regulation 24) 
Surcharge payable under 
subregulation 24(4): 
for each period of one 50.00 
month (not exceeding six 
months in total) 
4. Notice of opposition to the 50.00 4 
restoration of an industrial 
design 
(Regulation 25) 
5. Application to record the 200.00 5 
assignment, transmission or 
other operation of law to a 
registered industrial 
design or application for 
registration of an industrial 
design 
(Regulation 26) 
Matters or Proceedings Amount of Fee Industrial Design 
RM (ID) Form 
6. Application for rectification 100.00 6 
of the Register or request for 
revocation of registration 
(Regulation 27) 
7. Submission of a copy of an Free 7 
application to Court 
(Regulation 28) 
8. Notice of order of Court for 100.00 8 
rectification of the Register 
(Regulation 29) 
9. Request for amendment of an 100.00 9 
application for registration 
of an industrial design or a 
registered industrial design 
(Regulation 30) 
10. Appointment or change of agent 30.00 10 
and change of address for 
service 
(Regulations 32 and 40) 
11. Application for registration 1,000.00 11 
as an Industrial Designs Agent 
(Subregulation 33(2» 
12. Application for extension of 400.00 12 
registration as an Industrial 
Designs Agent (Subregulation 33(7)) 
13. Request for extension of time: 
for each period of one 
month (not exceeding three 
months in total) 
(Regulation 43) 
14. Request for certified or 
I.lncertified copies of or 
extract from entries, 
documents, etc.: 
(a) for certified copy 
or extract 
(b) for uncertified copy 
or extract 
(Regulation 45) 200.00 
50.00 
10.00 
per page 
5.00 
per page IPIN/lIMYS/DIl 
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13 
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ID FORM I 
Industrial SECOND SCHEDULE 
FORMS 
(Regulation 4) 
MINISTRY OF DOMESTIC TRADE 
AND CONSUMER AFFAIRS, MALAYSIA 
Designs Act 1996 
Industrial Designs 
Regulations 1999 INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY DIVISiON 
Industrial Designs Registration ' 
Office 
(Section 14 and Regulation 5) 
Application for registration 
of an Industrial Design 
(See the notes on the back of this Form) 
Application number: 
(For official use only) 
I. Full name and address ofl 
each applicant: 
(Names of individuals including all 
partners in a firm shall be given 
in full. Underline the surname or 
family name. For a corporate body 
give its company name) 
If the appiicant is a corporate 
body, give country/state of 
incorporation. 
2. Full name and address of the author: 
3. Name of agent (if applicable): 
Address for service in Malaysia to 
which correspondence should be sent: 
4. Name the particular article or set of 
articles to which the design applies: 
5. Classification: 
Enter the class/subclass 
number in accordance with the 
International Classification 
for Industrial Designs. 
6. Multiple application: 
Enter the number of industrial 
design applied for registration 
(if any): 
7. Association: 
Enter the application number 
or registration number of 
the earlier design with which 
the applicant seeks association 
under section 23 and regulation 
14. 
ID FORM I ID FORM 1 
8. Declaration of priority 
(if any): 
Give the convention country 
and filing date of any previous 
application made abroad frortl 
which priority is claimed under 
section 17. 
9. If the details in column 8 
applies, and the previous 
application was not made in the 
name(s) given in column 1, give 
details of the instrument (for 
example, deed of assignment) 
which gives the applicant the 
right to apply for registration. 
Include appropriate name(s) and 
date(s): 
(If this information is not given 
at the time this Form is filed, 
you must submit it before this 
industrial design is registered) 
W. Divisional application: 
Give the number and filing date 
of any relevant earlier application 
whose filing date is claimed under 
section 20. 
I L Declaration: 
12. Name and telephone number of 
person to contact in Malaysia: 
13. Checklist 
Make sure you have enclosed: Country 
Number 
(day/month/year) IPlNllIMYS/D/l 
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Date of filing 
( day/month/year) 
Date of filing 
J./We apply to register the industrial design 
shown in the accompanying representations. If 
. We declare the IlWe the applicant(s) who 
claim(s) to be the owner(s) of the design in 
relation to the article or set of articles specified 
in column 4 and to be the owner of any design 
right that exists in this industria! design. J./We 
also declare in respect of any entry in column 
8 that the application made in the convention 
country upon which the applicant relies is the 
first application made for registration of the 
design in a convention country. 
(Delete whichever not appJicable) 
Signature( s) Date 
o representations of the industrial design [See note (c)] 
o any separate sheet of paper [See note (f)] 
o the relevant fee [See note (g)] ID FORM 1 IPlNlllMYS/D/l 
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ID FORM 1 
NOTES: 
(a) If you need help to fill in this Form or you have any questions, please contact the 
Industrial Designs Registration Office at 603-22742100. 
(b) State your details in the column provided in capital letters using black ink or you may 
type them. 
(c) This Form should be accompanied by six identical representations (seven if application 
is for a set of articles) of the industrial design. Except in the case of an application for 
an industrial design \l;'hich applied to lace, textile article or wallpaper (or similar wall 
covering), a statement of the features of the industrial design for which novelty is 
claimed (a statement of novelty) should appear on each representation. In the case of 
representations which consist of more than one sheet, the statement of novelty should 
only appear on the first sheet. If it is impracticable for the statement of novelty to appear 
on a representation it may be given on a separate sheet of paper. 
(d) If words, letters or numerals appear in the design, the Registrar will normally require 
a disclaimer of any right to their exclusive use to appear on each representation. 
(e) If the column provided is insufficient, please continue on a separate sheet of paper and 
write "see overleaf'. Any separate sheet of paper used should be attached to this Form. 
(j) Different fees shall be payable according to whether the application relates to a single 
or multiple application. For details of the fee(s) and ways to pay please contact the 
Industrial Designs Registration Office, Intellectual Property Division, Ministry of Domestic 
Trade and Consumer Affairs. 
ID FORM I 
11) I:ORM 2 MINISTRY OF DOMESTIC TRADE 
AND CONSUMER AFFAIRS, MALAYSIA 
Industrial 
Designs Act 1996 
Industrial Designs 
Regulations 1999 
(Subsection 25(2) or Subsection 50(2) 
and Regulation 23) 
Application for extension of 
the period of registration 
(See the notes on the back of this Form) 
I. Application number: 
(For official use only) 
2. Registered industrial design 
number: 
3. Full name of the/each 
owner: 
4. Is this application for an extension 
for a second or third period? 
State 2 or 3 
(See also note (c)] INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY DIVISION, 
Industrial Designs Registration 
Office 
ID FORM 2 ID FORM 2 
5. When is the extension fee due? 
How may period of grace do you want 
if the application for extension is 
late? 
[See note (d)} 
6. If the registration contains more than 
one industrial design and extension is 
not applied for in respect of all of them, 
state the number of each industrial 
design for which extension is applied for: IP/N/IIMYS/D/l 
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7. Extension fee RM ......................... . 
Surcharge RM ......................... . 
(if applicable) 
Total RM 
8. Full name and address in Malaysia to 
which the certificate of extension 
is to be sent: 
9. Declaration: 
10. Name and teiephone number of 
person to contact in Malaysia: 
NOTES: enclosed 
UWe apply for an extension of the period of 
registration of the above registered industrial 
design. 
(Delete whichever not applicable) 
. Signature( s) Date 
(aJ If you need help to fill in this Form or you have any questions, please contact the 
Industrial Designs Registration Office at 603-22742100. 
(b) State your details in the column provided in capital letters using black ink or you may 
type them. 
(c) For United Kingdom registered design, state 2, 3,4 or 5 whichever applicable. 
(d) You can make an application on this Form within a period of six months after the date 
the extension fee is due, as long as you pay the extension fee and the surcharge within 
that period. 
( e) You shall send the ex.tension fee and any surcharge for a late application with this Form. 
(f) If the column provided is insufficient, please continue on a separate sheet of paper and 
write "see overleaf'. Any separate sheet of paper used should be attached to this Form. 
(g) For details of the fee(s) and ways to pay please contact the Industria! Designs Registration 
Office, Intellectual Property Division, Ministry of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs. 
ID FORM 2 IP/NIlIMYS/DI1 
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ID FORM 3 MINISTRY OF DOMESTIC TRADE 
AND CONSUMER AFFAIRS, MALAYSIA 
Industrial 
Designs Act 1996 
Industrial Designs 
Regulations 1999 
(Section 26 and Regulation 24) 
Request to restore a 
registered industrial design 
(See the notes on the back of this Form) 
1. Application number: 
(For official use only) 
2. Registration number: 
[See note (e)] 
3. Full name of the/each owner: 
4. Full name and address of the! 
each applicant applying for 
restoration: 
(Leave blank if this information 
is the same as given in column 3) 
5. Name of agent (if applicable); 
Address for service in Malaysia to 
which correspondence should be sent: 
6. If this application is being made by 
the owner(s), do you want the address 
in column 5 to replace the address for 
service currently on the Register? 
(State YES or NO) 
7. Grounds for this application: 
[See note (c)} 
8. Restoration fee: RM ..................... enclosed 
9. Declaration: 
10. Name and telephone number of 
person to contact in Malaysia: 
NOTES: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY DIVISION, 
Industrial Designs Registration 
Office 
IlWe apply for the above registered industrial 
design to be restored. 
(Delete whichever not applicable) 
Sigl'lature( s) Date 
(a) If you need help to fill in this Form or you have any questions, please contact the 
Industrial Designs Registration Office at 603·22742100. 
ID FORM 3 ID FORM 3 IP/NI 1 IMYS/D/l 
Page 57 
(b) State your details in the column provided in capital letters using black ink or you may 
type them. 
(c) You shall enclose supporting evidence in the form of statutory declaration(s) or affidavit(s) 
with this Form. 
(d) In the case where the request is made for only one or some of the industrial designs 
included in the registration, please also specify the number(s) of the industrial design(s) 
concerned. 
(e) If the column provided is insufficient, please continue on a separate sheet of paper and 
write "see overleaf'. Any separate sheet of paper used should be attached to this Form. 
if) For details of the fee(s) and ways to pay please contact the Industrial Designs Registration 
Office, Intellectual Property Division, Ministry of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs. 
ID FORM 3 
ID FORM 4 MINISTRY OF DOMESTIC TRADE 
AND CONSUMER AFFAIRS, MALAYSIA 
Industrial 
Designs Act 1996 
Industrial Designs 
Regulations 1999 
(Section 26 and Regulation 25) 
Notice of opposition to 
the restoration of an 
industrial design 
(See the notes on the back of this Form) 
I. Application number: 
(For official use only) 
2. Registration number: 
[See note (e)} 
3. Full name and address of thei 
each applicant/owner as currently 
appears on the Register or 
application: 
4. Full name and address of the! 
each person making this notice: 
5. Grounds for this notice: 
[See note (d)] 
6. Name of agent (if applicable): 
Address for service in Malaysia 
to which correspondence should be sent: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY DIVISION. 
Industrial Designs Registration 
Office 
ID FORM 4 IP/NIlIMYS/D/ l 
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ID FORM 4 
7. Declaration: 
[Name of each signatory 
should also be entered, 
and status if relevant] 
[See note (d)] 
8. Name and telephone number of 
person to contact in Malaysia: 
NOTES: IfWe confirm that a copy of this Notice has 
been given on the applicant for the restoration 
of the above industrial design in accordance 
with subsection 26(3). 
(Delete whichever not applicable) 
Signature( s) Date 
(a) If you need help to fiU in this Form or you have any questions, please contact the 
Industrial Designs Registration Office at 603-22742100. 
(b) State your details in the column provided in capital letters using black ink or you may 
type them. 
( c) In the case where the notice of opposition concerns only one or some of the industrial 
designs included in the registration, please also specify the number(s) of the industrial 
design(s) concerned. 
(d) Column 7 should be signed and dated by or on behalf of the person(s) making this 
opposition. Sufficient evidence to establish the grounds of this notice should be enclosed 
with this Form. 
(e) If the column provided is insufficient, please continue on a separate sheet of paper and 
write "see overleaf'. Any separate sheet of paper used should be attached to this Form. 
ID FORM 4 
ID FORM 5 MINISTRY OF DOMESTIC TRADE 
AND CONSUMER AFFAIRS, MALAYSIA 
Industrial 
Designs Act 1996 
Industrial Designs 
Regulations ] 999 
(Section 30 and Regulation 26) 
Application to record the 
assignment, transmission or 
other operation of law to a 
registered industrial design 
or application for registration 
of an industrial design 
(See the notes on the back of this Form) 
1. Application number: 
(For official use only) 
2. Application or registration number(s): 
[See note (c)] 
Give the total number if more than one. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY DIVISION, 
Industrial Designs Registration 
Office 
ID FORM 5 ID FORM 5 
3. Full name and address of the/each 
applicant/owner as currently 
recorded on the Register or 
application(s}: 
4. Full name and address of the! 
each person making this 
application: 
(Leave blank if this information 
is the same as given in column 3) 
5. Grounds for this application: 
Give details of the assignment, 
transmission or operation of 
Jaw affecting the rights in 
the or in each application or 
registered industrial design 
specified in column 2 including 
its date and the names of all 
the parties involved, including 
for corporate bodies the country 
and, if appropriate, state of 
incorporation. A certified 
copy of the assignment, transmission 
or other operation of law shaH be 
enclosed. 
[See note (e)} 
6. Name of agent (if applicable): 
Address for service in Malaysia to 
which correspondence should be sent: 
7. Declaration: 
[Name of each signatory 
should be entered, and 
status if relevant] 
[See note (d)] 
8. Name and telephone number of 
person to contact in Malaysia: 
NOTES: IPlNllIMYS/D/l 
Page 59 
IIW e declare that where industrial design right 
exists in the/in each industrial design mentioned 
in column 2, the person(s) entitled to any 
interest which the applicant is seeking to 
register by this application isfare also 
entitled to the corresponding interest in the 
industrial design right. 
(Delete whichever is not applicable) 
Signature(s) Date 
(a) If you need help to fill in this Form or you have any questions, please contact the 
Industrial Designs Registration Office at 603-22742100. 
(b) State your details in the column provided in capital letters using black ink or you may 
type them. 
(c) You may use this Form for more than one application or registration if the same request 
is involved. In the case of partial assignment, the specific number of each industrial 
design assigned should follow the number of each application or registration concerned. 
ID FORM 5 IP/N/lIMYS/Dl l 
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ID FORM 5 
(d) Col~mn. 7 should be signed and dated by or on behalf of the person(s} makin this 
appl1catlOl1. g 
(e) If the column provided is insufficient, please continue on a separate sheet of paper and 
write "see overleaf'. Any separate sheet of paper used should be attached to this Form. 
(f) The certificate of registration of any industrial design mentioned in column 2 of this 
Form will not be amended. So do not return the certificate(s) with this Form. 
(g) For details of the fee(s) and ways to pay please contact the Industrial Designs Registration 
Office, Intellectual Property Division, Ministry of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs. 
ID FORM 5 
ID FORM 6 MINISTRY OF DOMESTIC TRADE 
AND CONSUMER AFFAIRS, MALAYSIA 
Industrial 
Designs Act 1996 
Industrial Designs 
Regulations 1999 
(Subsection 24(3) or 
27(2) and Regulation 27) 
Application for rectification 
of the Register or request for 
revocation of registration 
(See the notes on the back of this Form) 
1. Application number: 
(For official use only) 
2. Registration number: 
3. Full name of the/each 
owner: 
4. Full name and address of the 
person making the application! 
request on this Form: 
(Leave blank if this information 
is the same as given in column 3) 
5. Name of agent (if applicable): 
Address for service in Malaysia 
to which correspondence should 
be sent: 
6. Explain the nature of your 
application: 
[See notes (c) and (f)] 
7. Declaration: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY DIVISION, 
Industrial Designs Registration 
Office 
l/We apply/request for rectification of the 
Register/revocationqf registration. 
(Delete whichever is not applicable) 
Signature( s) 
ID FORM 6 ID FORM 6 
8. Name and telephone number of 
person to contact in Malaysia: 
NOTES: IP/NIl/MYS/DIl 
Page 61 
(a) If you need help to fill in tbis Form or you have any questions, please contact the 
Industrial Designs Registration Ufficc at 603-22742100. 
(b) State your details in the column provided in capital letters using black ink or you may 
type them. 
(e) You can use this Form to: 
0) apply for rectification of the Register; or 
(ii) request for revocation of the registration of an industrial design. 
[For both 0) and (in you shall submit a statement setting out the nature of your interest, 
and facts on which you rely] 
(d) If the space provided is insufficient, please continue on a separate sheet of paper and 
write "see overleaf'. Any separate sheet of paper used should be attached to this Form. 
(e) In the case where this application concerns only one or some of the industrial designs 
contained in a registration, please also specify the number of the industrial designs 
concerned. 
(j) Where subparagraph (c)(i) is applied or CH) is requested you shaH submit two copies of 
this Form and of the required statement. 
(g) For details of the fee(s) and ways to pay please contact the Industrial Designs Registration 
Office, Intellectual Property Division, Ministry of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs. 
ID FORM 6 
ID FORM 7 MINISTRY OF DOMESTIC TRADE 
AND CONSUMER AFFAIRS, MALAYSIA 
Industrial 
Designs Act 1996 
Industrial Designs 
Regulations 1999 
(Paragraph 24(l)(a) or 
Subsection 24(3) or 
Paragraph 27{l)(a), (b) 
or (c) and Regulation 28) 
Submission of a copy of 
an application to Court 
(See the notes on the back of this Form) 
1. Application number: 
(For official use only) 
2. Registration number: 
[See note (c)} 
3. Full name and address of the! 
each applicant/owner as currently 
appears on the Register or 
application(s}: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY DIVISION, 
Industrial Designs Registration 
Office 
ID FORM 7 IP/N/I/MYS/D/l 
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ID FORM 7 
4. Fun name and address of the! 
each person making this application: 
(Leave blank if this information 
is the same as given in column 3) 
5. Name of agent (if applicable): 
Address for service in Malaysia 
to which correspondence should 
be sent: 
6. Declaration: 
[Name of each signatory 
should also be entered and status 
if relevant] 
[See note (d)] 
7. Name and telephone number of 
person to contact in Malaysia: 
NOTES: I1We submit a copy of the application to 
Court. 
(Delete whichever is not applicable) 
Signature( s) Date 
(a) If you need help to fill in this Form or you have any questions. please contact the 
Industrial Designs Registration Office at 603-22742100. 
(b) State your details in the column provided in capital letters using black ink or you may 
type them. 
(c) In the case where the application to Court concerns only one or some of the industrial 
design included in the registration, please also specify the number(s) of the industrial 
design(s) concerned. 
(d) Column 6 should be signed and dated by or on behalf of the person(s) making the 
application to Court. 
(e) If the column provided is insufficient, please continue on a separate sheet of paper and 
write "see overleaf'. Any separate sheet of paper used should be attached to this Form. 
ID FORM 8 
Industrial 
Designs Act 1996 
Industrial Designs 
Regulations 1999 
(Paragraph 24( 1)( d) and 
Regulation ~9) 
Notice of order of Court for 
rectification of the Register MINISTRY OF DOMESTIC TRADE 
AND CONSUMER AFFAIRS, MALAYSIA ID FORM 7 
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY DIVISION, 
Industrial Designs Registration 
Office 
(See the notes on the back of this Form) 
1. Application number: 
(For official use only) 
2. Registration number: 
ID FORM 8 ID FORM 8 
3. FuiI name of the/each owner: 
4. Name of agent (if applicable): 
Address for service in Malaysia 
to which correspondence should be 
sent: 
5. Details of the rectification required 
to be made: 
(An office copy of the order of Court 
shaH be attached) 
6. Declaration: 
Non'.s: IP/N/1/MYS/DIl 
Page 63 
IIW e submit a copy of the notice of order of 
the Court for rectification of the Register. 
(Delete whichever is not applicable) 
Signature(s) Date 
(a) If you need help to fiU in this Form or you have any questions, please contact the 
Industrial Designs Registration Office at 603-22742100. 
(b) State your details in the column provided in capital letters using black ink or you may 
type them. 
(c) If the space provided is insufficient, please continue on a separate sheet of paper and 
write "see overleaf'. Any separate sheet of paper used should be attached to this Form. 
ID FORM 8 
ID FORM 9 MINISTRY OF DOMESTIC TRADE 
AND COl'{SUMER AFFAIRS, MALAYSIA 
Industrial 
Designs Act 1996 
Industrial Designs 
Regulations 1999 
(Section 19 or 40 and 
Regulation 30) 
Request for amendment of an 
application for registration 
of an industrial design or a 
registered industrial design 
(See the notes on the back of this Form) 
1. Application number: 
(For official use only) 
2. Application or registration number(s): 
[See note (c)J 
3. Full name and address of thel 
each applicant/owner as currently 
recorded on application(s) or the 
Register: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY DIVISION, 
.Industrial Designs Registration 
Office 
ID FORM 9 IPINll frv1YSID/1 
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ID FORM 9 
4. Full name and address of person(s) 
making the request: 
(Leave blank if this information 
is the same as given in column 3) 
5. Give details of new name, if 
applicable: 
[See notes (d), (e) and (g)J 
6. Give details of amendment to be 
made, if applicable: 
[See notes (d) and (J)l 
7. If this request is to alter the 
name or address, does the alteration 
apply to iill. application for 
registration of an industrial 
design or registered industrial 
designs in that name? 
(State YES or NO) 
8. Name of agent (if applicable): 
Address for service in Malaysia 
to which correspondence should 
be sent: 
9. Declaration: 
10. Name and telephone number of 
person to contact in Malaysia: 
NOTES: I1We apply for amendment of the application 
for registration of an industrial design/registered 
industrial design. 
(Delete whichever is not applicable) 
Signature( s) Date 
(a) If you need help to fill in this Form or you have any questions, please contact the 
Industrial Designs Registration Office at 603-22742100. 
(b) State your details in the column provided in capital letters using black ink or you may 
type them. 
(e) You may use this Form to amend more than one application for registration of an 
industrial design or registered industrial design if the same request is involved. In the 
case where this request concerns only one or some of the industrial design included in 
an application or registration, please also specify the number(s) of the industrial design(s) 
concerned. 
(d) If the column provided is insufficient, please continue on a separate sheet of paper and 
write "see overleaf'. Any separate sheet of paper used should be attached to this Form. 
(e) You should enclose proof of any changes of name; for example a copy of the Certificate 
of Incorporation on a change of name. 
(f) In the case of request to correct a clerical error or obvious mistake "each person making 
the request shall give details of the error or mistake and state his or her interest in the 
matter unless he or she is named in column 3. This Form shall be accompanied by 
evidence stating the circumstances in which the error or mistake occurred. 
ID FORM 9 ID FORM 9 IPlNllIMYS/D/l 
Page 65 
(g) In the case of the certificate of registration of any industrial design mentioned in column 
2 to be amended because of a request to alter name and address, please return the 
certificate(s) with this Form if that is your only request. 
(h) For details of the fee(s) and ways to pay please contact the Industrial Designs Registration 
Office, Intellectual Property Division Ministry of Domistic Trade and Consumer Affairs. 
ID FORM 9 
ID FORM 10 MINISTRY OF DOMESTIC TRADE 
AND CONSUMER AFFAIRS, MALAYSIA 
Industrial 
Designs Act 1996 
Industrial Designs 
Regulations 1999 
(Section 14 or 45 and 
Regulations 32 and 40) 
Appointment 01" change of agent 
and change of address for 
service 
(See the notes on the back of this Form) 
1. Application or registration 
number(s): 
[See note (d)] 
2. Fun name and address of the! 
each applicant/owner: 
3. Full name and address of present 
agent (if applicable): 
4. Agent's registration number 
(if applicable): 
5. Name and address of new agent: 
6. Registration number of 
new agent: 
7. Declaration: 
8. Name and telephone number 
of person to contact Malaysia: 
NOTES: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY DIVISION, 
Industrial Designs Registration 
Office 
I request that all communication concerning 
the above application or registration shall be 
sent to the address specified in column 5, which 
is the address for service. 
Signature Date 
(a) If you need help to fill in this Form or you have any questions, please contact the 
Industrial Designs Registration Office at 603-22742100. 
ID FORM 10 IP/NIlIMYSIDI 1 
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ID FORM 10 
(b) State your details in the column provided in capital letters using black ink or you may 
type them. 
(c) You may use this Form for more that one industrial design if the same authorization has 
been given. In this situation, if the column provided is insufficient, please Ilse a separate 
sheet of paper and attach it to this Form. 
(d) This Form must be completed when you appoint an agent for the first time or appoint 
a new agent in substitution for another or change of agent and address for service. Where 
the agent replaces another, two copies of this Form shall be filled. The Office will send 
a copy to the former agent. If an application for registration of an industrial design has 
not been filed yet, leave column 1 blank. 
ID FORM 10 
ID FORM 11 MINISTRY OF DOMESTIC TRADE 
AND CONSUMER AFFAIRS, MALAYSIA 
Industrial 
Designs Act 1996 
Industrial Designs 
Regulations 1999 
(Section 47 and 
Subregulation 33(2» 
Application for registration 
as an Industrial Designs Agent 
(See the notes on the back of this Form) 
1. Application number(s): 
(For official use only) 
2. Full name and address of the 
applicant: 
3. Nationality: 
4. Permanent residence or principal INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY DIVISION, 
Industrial Designs Registration 
Office 
place of business (inc~tlding current telephone and fax number): 
5. Qualifications: 
[See note (c)] 
6. Experience: 
[See note (d») 
7. Declaration: I apply for registration as an 
Industrial Design Agent. I also 
declare that all information 
given above is true and correct. 
Signature Date 
NOTES: 
(a) If you need help to fill in this Form or you have any questions, please contact the 
Industrial Designs Registration Office at 603-22742100. 
ID FORM 11 ID FORM 11 IPIN!l/MYS/D/l 
Page 67 
(b) State your details in the column provided in capital letters using black ink or you may 
type them. 
(c) Please attach copies of qualifications certified by Commissioner for Oaths. 
(d) Please submit details of your experience in the form of statutory declaration. 
ID FORM I1 
ID FORM 12 MINISTRY OF DOMESTIC TRADE 
AND CONSUMER AFFAIRS, MALAYSIA 
Industrial 
Designs Act 1996 
Industrial Designs 
Regulations 1999 
(Section 47 and 
Subregulation 33(7» 
Application for extension of 
registration as an Industrial 
Designs Agent 
(See the notes on the back of this Form) 
1. Registration 
number of agent: 
2. Full name and address of the 
applicant 
3. Nationality: 
4. Permanent residence or principal INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY DIVISION, 
Industrial Designs Registration 
Office 
place of business (including telephone and fax number): 
5. Qualifications: 
[See note ( c)] 
6. Extension fee: RM ................ enclosed 
7. Declaration: 
NOTES: I apply for an extension of the 
registration as an Industrial 
Design Agent. I also declare 
that all information given 'above 
is true and correct. 
Signature Date 
(a) If you need help to fill in this Form or you have any questions. please contact the 
Industrial Designs Registration Office at 603-2742100. 
(b) State your details in the column provided in capital letters using black ink or you may 
type them. 
(c) Please attach copies of qualification certified by the Commissioner for Oaths. 
ID FORM 12 IP/NIIIMYS/D/l 
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ID FORM 13 MINISTRY OF DOMESTIC TRADE 
AND CONSUMER AFFAIRS. MALAYSIA 
Industrial 
Designs Act 1996 
Industrial Designs 
Regulations 1999 
(Section 43 and 
Regulation 43) 
Request for extension of time 
(See the notes on the back of this Form) 
1. Application number: 
(For official use only) 
2. Fun name of the/each applicant: 
3. Name of agent (if applicable): 
Address for service in Malaysia 
to which correspondence should 
be sent: 
4. How long an extension do you want? 
State 1, 2 or 3 months 
[See note (c)} 
5. Completion date: 
(State the completion date 
of the act or thing in 
respect of which the extension 
of time is requested, regard 
to the extension of time in 
column 4) 
6. Declaration: 
7. Name and telephone number of 
person to contact in Malaysia: 
NOTES: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY DIVISION, 
Industrial Designs Registration 
Office 
IfWe request for an extension of time 
to the date stated in column 5. 
(Delete whichever is not applicable) 
Signature(s) Date 
(a) If you need help to fill in this Form or you have any questions. please contact the 
Industrial Designs Registration Office at 603-22742100. 
(b) State your details in the column provided in capital letters using black. ink or you may 
type them. 
(c) The period for completing an application may be extended by up to three months if you 
pay the fee for each extra month. 
(d) For details of the fee(s) and ways to pay please contact the Industrial Designs Registration 
Office, Intellectual Property Division, Ministry of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs. 
ID FORM 13 IPINllIMYS/D/l 
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ID FORM 14 MINISTRY OF DOMESTIC TRADE 
AND CONSUMER AFFAIRS, MALA YSIA 
Industrial 
Designs Act 1996 
Industrial Designs 
Regulations 1999 
(Sections 9 and 47 
and Regulation 45) 
Request for certified or 
uncertified copies of or 
extract from entries. 
documents~ etc. 
(See the notes on the back of this Form) 
I. Application or registration 
number: 
2. Fun name of the/each applicant! 
owner of the industrial design 
as currently appears on the 
Register or application(s): 
3. Do you want-
(a) certified or uncertified 
copy of; or 
(b) certified or uncertified 
extract~ or 
(c) Registrar's certificate 
(tick whichever is applicable) 
How many copies do you require? 
4. Full name and address in Malaysia to 
which copies, extracts or certificate 
be sent: 
(If you have any special deliveryl 
collection instructions, please 
give details) 
5. Have you enclosed the documents to 
be certified? 
If not, the Office win, if possible, 
prepare photocopies. 
[See note (e)] 
6. Declaration: 
7. Name and telephone number 
of person to contact in 
Malaysia: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY DIVISION, 
Industrial Designs Registration 
Office 
I/We request for the document(s) which is 
ticked in column 3 and shall be sent to the 
name and address given in column 4. 
(Delete whichever is not applicable) 
Signature(s) Date 
ID FORM 14 IP/Nll/MYS/D/l 
Page 70 
ID FORM 14-
NOTES: 
(a) If you need help to fill in this Form or you have any questions, please contact the industrial 
Designs Registration Office at 603-2742100. 
(b) State your details in the column provided in capital letters using black ink or you may type 
them. 
(c) Only use this Form to request the following: 
o a certified or uncertified copy of or extract from an entry in the Register; 
o a certified or uncertified copy of or extract from any representation or document kept 
in the Office, 
o a certificate for the purposes of paragraph 9(4)(b) of the Act. 
(d) If the Registrar is requested to certify particulars of the industrial design, it should be made 
clear whether the request relates to the industrial designs as originally filed or as registered. 
(e) Items supplied for certification in column 5 shall be identical to the corresponding 
document in the official file. 
W If the column provided is insufficient, please continue on a separate sheet of paper and write 
"see overleaf'. Any separate sheet of paper used should be attached to this Form. 
(g) For details of the fee(s) and ways to pay please contact the Industrial Designs Registration 
Office, Intellectual Property Division, Ministry of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs. 
InFORM 14 THIRD SCHEDULE 
INDUSTRIAL DESIGNS ACT 1996 
INDUSTRiAL DESIGNS REGUlATIONS 1999 
(Regulation 20) 
KEMENTERIAN PERDAGANGAN DALAM NEGERI 
DAN HAL EHW AL PENGGUNA MALAYSIA, 
BAHAGIAN HARTA INTELEK 
Ministry of Domestic Trade and Consumer 
Affairs Malaysia, Intellectual Property 
Division 
CERTIFICATE OF REGISTRATION OF AN INDUSTRIAL DESIGN 
Registration Number 
Registration Date 
Priority Date(s) 
Filing Date 
Date of Issue of Certificate 
Articles or set of Articles in 
respect of which the Industrial 
Design is registered 
This is to certify that, IPlNllIMYS/DIl 
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in pursuance of and subject to the provisions of the Industrial Designs Act 1996 and Industrial Designs 
Regulations 1999. the Industrial Design or Designs, of which a representation or representations is or 
are attached, has or have been registered as of the date of registration shown above in the name 
of ................................... at. ............................................................................................................... . 
in respect of the application for registration of the Industrial Design. 
( ) 
Registrar of Industrial Designs IPINI 1 IMYS/DI 1 
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FOURTH SCHEDULE 
INDUSTRIAL DESIGNS ACT 1996 
INDUSTRIAL DESIGNS REGULATIONS 1999 
(Regulation 23) 
KEMENTERIAN PERDAGANGAN DALAM NEGERI 
DAN HAL EHW AL PENGGUNA MALAYSIA, 
BAHAGIAN HART A INTELEK 
Ministry of Domestic Trade and Consumer 
Affairs Malaysia, Intellectual Property 
Division 
CERTIFICATE OF EXTENSION OF PERIOD 
OF REGISTRATION OF AN INDUSTRIAL DESIGN 
IN THE MATTER OF an application to 
extend the period of registration 
of a Registered Industrial Design 
I, THE UNDERSIGNED being an officer authorized to sign and issue certificates on behalf of the 
Registrar, certify that this industrial design registered under the Industrial Designs Act 1996 continues 
in force with its period of registration extended for a further five years as follows: 
Registration Number 
Registered in the name of 
Date of extension applied 
Period of registration extended to expire 
Witness my hand this ............... day of ............................. 1999. 
Made 14 July 1999. acting for the Registrar of 
Industrial Designs LAWS OF MALAYSIA 
Act AI077 IPINIlIMYS/DI 1 
Page 73 
INDUSTRIAL DESIGNS (AMENDMENT) ACT 2000 
Date of Royal Assent 
Date of publication in the 
Gazette 30 May 2000 
15 June 2000 IP/N/I/MYS/DIl 
Page 74 
LA WS OF MALAYSIA 
Act AI077 
INDUSTRIAL DESIGNS (AMENDMENT) ACT 2000 
An Act to amend the Industrial Designs Act 1996. 
r 
ENACTED by the Parliament of Malaysia as follows: 
Short title and commencement· ] 
1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Industrial Designs 
(Amendment) Act 2000. 
(2) This Act shall come into operation on a date to be appointed 
by the Minister by notification in the Gazette. 
Amendment of section 3 
2. The Industrial Designs Act 1996 [Act 552], which in this Act 
is referred to as the "principal Act", is amended in subsection 
3(1) in the definition of "article"-
(a) by inserting after the word "separately" the words "but 
does not include an integrated circuit or part of an 
integrated circuit within the meaning of the Layout-Designs 
of Integrated Circuits Act 2000, or a mask used to make 
such an integrated circuit"; and 
(b) by inserting the marginal reference "Act 601" against 
the words "Layout-Designs of Integrated Circuits Act 
2000". IP/N/l/MYS/DI1 
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New section 13A 
3. The principal Act is amended by inserting after section 13 the 
following section: 
"Certain 
regis­
trations 
not to be 
extended 
or 
restored. 13A. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, 
where before the commencement of the Layout-Designs 
of Integrated Circuits Act 2000 an industrial design 
applicable to an integrated circuit or part of an integrated 
circuit within the meaning of that Act or an industrial 
design applicable to a mask used to make such an 
integrated circuit was registered under this Act, that 
registration shaH not be extended or restored at any time 
on or after that commencement.".