novelty means that an invention does not belong to the existing technology. Existing technologies include technologies that are publicly published worldwide, spread orally or made known to the public in any other way before the application date of the invention or creation or the corresponding priority date; Or a previously filed domestic patent application, and the application is included in the authorized patent right.
creativity means that compared with anything in the prior art, the invention is not obvious to ordinary technicians in this technical field.
In Malaysia, as in most countries, invention patents need substantive examination, that is, the novelty and creativity of technical solutions.