Brunei Darussalam signed the Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPs) on April 1994 and which came into force on 1 January 1995. Brunei passed IPR legislation to meet its TRIPS commitments which took effect on 1 January 2000.

Current laws available under the IPR regime in Brunei includes as follow:

• Trademarks
  Trade Marks Act (Cap 98) and Trade Mark Rules (2000) are legislation governing the registration of trademarks in Brunei Darussalam.
• Patents
  Current legislation governing patents in Brunei is the Inventions Act (Cap 72), of which provides protection to patents in Brunei only if that person has in prior obtained a grant of a patent in the United Kingdom, Singapore or Malaysia.
  The Emergency (Patents) Order, 1999, that includes provisions in which a fresh application of patent protection would be possible, has been gazetted but is yet to be enforced. Brunei Darussalam is also currently considering implementing an independent patent system.
• Copyright
  The governing legislation is the Emergency (Copyright) Order, 1999. There is no requirement for registration of copyright as the protection arises out of the creation of the works.
• Layout Designs
  The Emergency (Layout Designs) Order, 1999 provides statutory protection for original layout designs that are created after the commencement of the Order.
• Industrial Designs
  The Emergency (Industrial Designs) Order, 1999 and Industrial Designs Rules of 2000 provides for the registration of new industrial designs for the visual appearance of products.

Legislations mentioned above can be found at the following link http://www.agc.gov.bn/ under tabs "Text of Acts" and "Text of Orders".