Innovation: Improving Lives
By P. Kandiah The inconvenience of fitting and using a dust bag in a vacuum cleaner inspired Sir James Dyson (as he is referred to now) to develop a bag-less vacuum cleaner which innovation has brought much comfort to those tasked with vacuuming floors. Dyson’s bag-less vacuum cleaner has taken the world by surprise. Pharmaceutical firms […]
[Business Today] Hashtags as Intellectual Property
[The Petri Dish] Offshore Security Surveillance
Safety and security has been a growing concern recently throughout the world. The main reasons are accidents, i.e. fire and explosions and criminal activities, such as act of terrorism and piracy. Land is not the only place for such threat, seas and oceans are getting the same as well. In past years, different ways and/or […]
[MGCC Perspectives] KASS Director Speaks in Tokyo, Japan
[Business Today] Fireworks
When the clock ticks to 12 o’clock to welcome New Year, it is the most anticipated moment in everyone’s life or at least majority of us to watch, feel, hear and smell the sparkles of fireworks that beautify the sky in every part of the world. With that, I came across an article, the world’s […]
[Pharma Times] Patentability and Litigation in Malaysia with a focus on Pharma Industry
ARTSY Cakes
By Rebecca Chong Since the win in the US Presidential election to the inauguration of President Trump, the new leader has been put under the microscope by the media, with endless coverage of the daily affairs of the new President. Even celebrities are talking about President Trump! Why break the trend? Relax. There is no politics […]
#Hashtags as Intellectual Property
#What #How #CanYou #ShouldYou “[Twitter] told me flat out, ‘These things are for nerds. They’re never going to catch on.’” – Chris Messina on Twitter’s rejection to his idea of hashtag. #WhatIsAHashTag In 2007, Chris Messina, the inventor of the hashtag, first suggested in a tweet, that Twitter users utilise the hash symbol to […]
[The Petri Dish] The TPPA Dream: Is it heading for the exit door?
While the whole wide world was still reeling from the news of Brexit and Brangelexit (Seriously, who comes up with terms like these?), the news of Donald Trump edging against fellow presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to become the next US president may have overloaded the incredulity meter of most common folks. As those darn millennials […]