Foong Cheng Leong

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I am an advocate and solicitor of the High Court of Malaya and a registered trade mark, industrial designs and patent agent. I am also the author of the books, Compendium of Malaysian Intellectual Property Cases consisting of two (2) volumes, namely, trade marks and copyright and industrial designs, and Foong’s Malaysia Cyber, Electronic Evidence and Information Technology Law.

  • Filing a Complaint with the MCMC

    Posting offending messages on the internet is longer a trivial thing nowadays. Many internet users are now aware of their remedy when facing with offensive messages on the internet. Bank Employee Charged With Posting Obscene Blog Title KUALA LUMPUR, July 6 (Bernama) — A former EON Bank Berhad employee pleaded not guilty in the Sessions…

  • Personal Data Protection Act 2010

    by Foong Cheng Leong and Halina Jael Abu Bakar After a long wait, the Personal Data Protection Act 2010 [Act 709] (“the Act”) has finally been passed. The Act seeks to regulate the processing of personal data of individuals involved in commercial transactions by data users so as to provide protection to the individual’s personal…

  • Handling social media disasters

    Published on 12 May 2011 in The Star Newspaper Social media can be a powerful tool to promote your goods or services, but the online world is unpredictable and no matter how good a brand is, there will be someone hating it. IT is now the norm for brand owners having social media network accounts…

  • Luahan hati penulis blog

    Published on Utusan Malaysia on 31 July 2010 Oleh ROHANI IBRAHIM rencana@utusan.com.my KUALA LUMPUR menjadi tuan rumah pertama di Asia bagi Persidangan Penulis Blog Media Sosial yang berakhir kelmarin. Objektif persidangan berkenaan ialah mengingatkan komuniti blog di Asia supaya lebih bertanggungjawab dalam mengendalikan laman blog masing-masing. Persidangan tersebut berjaya menghimpunkan penulis blog dan pelbagai profesional…

  • Sherrina Nur Elena bt Abdullah v Kent Well Edar Sdn Bhd

    Kota Kinabalu High Court Suit No.: K22-187-2009-I The Plaintiff, who was a beauty queen, sued the Defendant for publishing, without consent, her photograph and image appearing on packaging of the Defendants’ products, particularly packages of rice being displayed and sold in various retail shops, grocery stores, supermarkets and hypermarkets in Kota Kinabalu. The Plaintiff also…

  • NTV7 Breakfast Show Interview – “Social Media Laws” – 10.3.2011

    Foong Cheng Leong and HR Dipendra talks about the social media laws in Malaysia on NTV 7 Breakfast Show, 10 March 2011.

  • Podcast: The Digital Edge 25: The #yorais mob

    John Lim, Grace Chin, David Lian and Foong Cheng Leong discuss: 1. Mark Zuckerberg says that the age of privacy is over – so can Malaysians expect our status updates and Twitter feeds to be private? 2. Minister for Information, Communications, Culture and Arts Datuk Seri Rais Yatim says that Malaysians should not be too…

  • NTV7 Breakfast Show Interview – “Privacy and Data Protection” – 2.3.2011

  • BFM Podcast: The Legal Implications of Social Media: Defamation and Libel

    Foong Cheng Leong, Senior Associate, Lee Hishammuddin Allen & Gledhill discusses the legal aspects of social media, focusing in particular on online defamation, admissibility of online data in courts, cybersquatting, domain disputes, and whether there should there be regulation of the Internet and social media, whether directly or indirectly. He also discusses the fine line…

  • Life Online Show 16: Naughty things

    Podcast interview at the Life Online Show podcast on 2 February 2011. The following topics were discussed with host John Lim, David Wang from theclickstarter.com, David Lian from Text100, journalist Niki Cheong: 1) Groupon coming into Malaysia by acquiring GroupsMore.com 2) Google establishing a bigger foothold in Malaysia with an office in KLCC. 3) The…