Introduction:

This half-day course is designed to expose the participants to how IP Rights can bring your expertise, skills and technical know-how to the next level. It provides a springboard to assist you in protecting, commercialising and exploiting your creation. It gives the participants a platform to understand and discuss critical issues (whether their own IP rights or others) faced by them in their day to day dealings.  At the end of the session, the participants should:
•    Understand the basic concept of trade mark  copyright, patents, confidential information;
•    Aware of ways to protect their IP rights (selected IP rights);
•    Be exposed to some tips on how to avoid any infringement or potential infringement of IP rights of others;
•    Understand how to enforce their IP rights when there is infringement


Mr Bahari Yeow Tien Hong
Bahari heads the Intellectual Property practice group and became a partner of Lee Hishammuddin Allen & Gledhill in January 2009. His background is in corporate and commercial dispute resolution and land law.

Bahari graduated from the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom, in 1998. After qualifying as an advocate and solicitor in 2000, he obtained a Master’s degree in Law at the University of Malaya.

Due to the growing awareness of the importance of intellectual property protection and as the firm’s intellectual property practice grows, he has taken the opportunity to specialise in intellectual property dispute resolution, including the enforcement and protection of intellectual property rights. He has been engaged in a variety of intellectual property litigation cases. He also advises clients on the exploitation and protection of products and services including copyright, trade marks and designs; and acts for owners of well-known brands, characters and trade marks. Bahari is a Patent Agent, Trade Mark Agent and Industrial Design Agent.
                                
Ms. Eunice Chan Wei Lynn
Eunice Chan Wei Lynn is a Senior Associate at Lee Hishammuddin Allen & Gledhill. She graduated from Cardiff University, Wales, United Kingdom and was called to the English Bar and Malaysian Bar. Her main area of practice is in intellectual property law and advise and assist clients on all aspects of IP protection and ownership including portfolio management and IP related agreements and transactions. She is also involved in transactional and advisory work in the areas of biotechnology, information technology and franchising.

Her other areas of practice include competition / antitrust law.

She is a committee member of the Malaysian Bio-Industry Organization (MBIO) and is a member of the Malaysian Bar Council's Competition sub-committee. She has also given several talks and presentations on competition law and intellectual property to various clients.