JUDGMENT

Azizah Nawawi CJSS:

Introduction

[1] This appeal is filed by the Appellant/Plaintiff to challenge the decision of the learned High Court in dismissing the Appellant's claims for infringement of moral rights and invalidation of patents against the Respondents/Defendants.

Background Facts

[2] The plaintiff pursued her Master's at the Faculty of Dentistry, University of Malaya ('UM').

[3] The 1st defendant ('D1') is a biotechnology company and industry collaborator with UM. The second and 3rd defendants, (D2 and D3), acted as research consultant and research associate, respectively.

[4] D2 and the Head of Conservative Dentistry (D4) at UM, had secured a research grant for a project entitled "Isolation, Characterization and Multilineage Differentiation of Post-Natal Stem Cells from Dental Pulp" ('Collaboration Project'), aimed in part at developing UM's expertise in stem cell research through postgraduate programmes. The Collaboration Project, spanning 36 months from May 2009 to April 2012, involved a joint effort between the Faculty of Dentistry, University of Malaya, and Stempeutics Research Malaysia.