Malcolm Royal (25 April 1941 – 21 October 2006) was an Australian patent and trade mark attorney and intellectual property law educator.
He graduated from Footscray Technical College (now part of Victoria University) with a Diploma in Applied Chemistry in 1958.
His role there was to assist in the commercialisation of inventions developed by scientists and engineers, many of them of world prominence, who worked with or for CSIRO.
[1] Royal was an active member of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute; the Institute of Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys of Australia (IPTA); International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys (FICPI); the Intellectual Property Society of Australia and New Zealand, Inc; the Licensing Executives Society International (LESI); the Asian Patent Attorneys Association (APAA); and the International Association for the Protection of Industrial Property (AIPPI).
[1] When the Australian Government reviewed the training and professional qualification regimes for Australian Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys, Royal was involved in making (and having adopted) many of the changes as a member of each of the Professional Standards Board for Patent and Trade Marks Attorneys, the Advisory Council for Industrial Property and the Intellectual Property Working Party for Federal Government Innovation Summit from 2000.