Bandar Seri Begawan - The AGC (Attorney General's Chambers) and the BEDB (Brunei Economic Development Board) today jointly announced that His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei Darussalam has consented to the implementation of the Patents Order, 2011 and the establishment of the Patent Registry Office, which is administered under the BEDB, in close collaboration with the Intellectual Property Division of the AGC.

Azaraimy HH

Bandar Seri Begawan 

If you create an invention or invent something that improves a process, you should patent it. If someone else uses your invention in his product or process, you will be rightly rewarded.

A patent is an exclusive right granted for an invention which can be a product or a process that gives a new technical solution to a problem. This benefits the inventors, SMEs and even students and researchers. However, public awareness of the benefits of patents is still limited.

In an interview, Shahrinah Yusof Khan, Deputy Registrar and Head of Patents of the newly-established Patent Registry Office (PRO), said, "We are working to 'demystify' the public understanding on what is a patent".

Ron Langford (R), the first person in Brunei to submit a patent application, shakes hands with Sharinah Yusof Khan (2nd R), the deputy registrar, head of patents of the Patent Registry Office, while Langford's wife (2nd L) Koh Bee Lian and her brother Koh Boon Lee look on. Picture: BT/Goh De No

An Immigration officer scans a passport at the immigration control post in Kuala Lurah. Ron Langford's patent addresses deficiencies in the global protocol for e-Passport and credit card transactions where identity theft continues to pose a problem. Picture: BT file

Goh De No
BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN

THE establishment of a Patent Registry Office (PRO) is in-line with His Majesty's vision for young Bruneians to be diverse, innovative and creative, said Ron Langford of Langford Media Network (LMN).

Langford and his Bruneian wife, Koh Bee Lian, were the first in the country to lodge an application for a methods patent yesterday at the PRO titled: "A Method & Protocol for Authenticating Security Documents and Financial Instruments Via A Software Application When Using Visual Content".