Shearn Delamore & Co

Intellectual Property; Technology, Media & Telecommunications; Regulatory, Compliance, Enforcement & Investigations; Personal Data Protection & Competition Laws

Raghuram advises and represents clients in all areas of contentious and non-contentious IP work. Extending beyond prosecution and defence of clients’ rights, his portfolio also covers IP asset management, IP audits and IP reviews, brand management, anti-piracy and anti-counterfeiting and domain names and cyber laws.

He has worked and appeared as lead counsel or co-counsel with senior partners of the IP Department in various IP and regulatory compliance cases at the subordinate courts, High Courts, Court of Appeal and the Federal Court. Raghuram is also one of the very few lawyers in the firm who has been involved in criminal litigation.

Over the years, he has built and secured good rapport with the Ministry of Domestic Trade and Cost of Living, the Royal Malaysian Customs and the Royal Malaysian Police, which provides him an added advantage in enforcement of clients’ IP rights.

Outside IP, his experience also extends to other practice areas including E-commerce, Technology, Media, and Telecommunications, Competition and Anti-trust, Entertainment, Advertising, Sponsorship and Broadcasting, Regulatory Compliance and Government Relations, Privacy and Personal Data Protection, Consumer Protection, Price Control, Anti-Profiteering and Product Liability, and Anti-Corruption and Anti-Money Laundering.

Apart from being a member of various organisations including ASEAN IPA and MIPA, he is also part of MyIPO’s Copyright-Industrial Design Task Force and has contributed towards the amendments to the Copyright and Industrial Design laws. He is also active in the IP Committee and IP Mediation Task Force of the Bar Council, and is working closely with senior members of the Bar towards the implementation of mediation for IP cases in Malaysia.

Raghuram has been invited to speak at various IP, consumer protection and domestic trade talks and has also authored or co-authored various publications, including “Manual for the Handling of the Applications for Patents, Trademarks and Designs (Brown Book)” by Kluwer IP Law and “World Intellectual Property Rights and Remedies (Malaysian chapter)” by Thomson Reuters Corp. He is The Legal 500 Asia-Pacific’s Rising Star for the years 2022 and 2023 and Managing IP Stars’ Rising Star for 2021-2023.

English, Malay, Basic Mandarin

• Member, Malaysian Bar (Since 2012) • Member, International Bar Association (IBA) • Member, ASEAN Intellectual Property Association (ASEAN IPA) (Since 2018) • Member, World Law Group (Since 2021) [Public Profile: https://www.theworldlawgroup.com/news/raghuram-supramanium-wlg-beyond-borders-participant] • Member, Malaysian Intellectual Property Association (MIPA) (Since 2021) • Member, Malaysian Intellectual Property Office (MyIPO)’s Copyright-Industrial Design Task Force (Since 2022) • Member, Bar Council Intellectual Property Committee (Since 2022) • Member, Bar Council IP Mediation Task Force (Since 2022)

L.L.B (Hons), Multimedia University, Malaysia Advocate & Solicitor, High Court of Malaya

Publication

• Manual for the Handling of the Applications for Patents, Trademarks and Designs (Brown Book), Kluwer IP Law (2022) • World Intellectual Property Rights and Remedies (Malaysian chapter), Thomson Reuters Corp. (2021) • Trademark Protection beyond borders – What it means for local businesses, Business in Action – Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers’ Framework (2020) • CorporateLiveWire Virtual Round Table – Intellectual Property (2019) • Malaysia’s Trademark Legislation Goes Under the Knife, Asia IP (2019) • Monetising IP assets – Malaysia, Managing IP (2018) • Doing Business in Asia (Malaysia chapter), Thomson Reuters Corp. (2016 – 2017) • Doing Business in Asia, Thomson Reuters Corporation (2013 – 2016) • Annotations to the Statutes of Malaysia: Trade Marks Act 1976, Trade Descriptions Act 2011, Patents Act 1983, Copyright Act 1987 and Industrial Designs Act 1996, LexisNexis Malaysia (2013)