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THE Ministry of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs is responsible for intellectualproperty in Malaysia, and the administration of the Patents Act 1983.The examination and granting of applications for patents and other intellectualproperty claims lies with the Intellectual Property Corporation of Malaysia.Sections 48 to 54 provides for compulsory licences (there is a prescribed formunder the Act for applications for a compulsory licence, which is simple to use:see Appendix 1).Sections 37(2) and 58A provide for parallel import, based on the internationalexhaustion of rights principle.Section 84 provides for the ‘Rights of Government’, the term for ‘GovernmentUse’ in the Patents Act. There is no prescribed form required. A decisionof the relevant government authority is sufficient.In November 2002, given the limitations of negotiations with drug companies,and boosted by the Doha Declaration on TRIPS and Public Health, the MOHsubmitted a paper to the Malaysian Cabinet with a recommendation to importgeneric ARV drugs. The drugs concerned are patented in Malaysia.The Cabinet approved on the basis of the government use provisions in section84 of the Patents Act 1983.
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