[The Petri Dish] A billion-dollar Question
Genetic diseases and disorders which are caused by faulty genes in cells are debilitating and worsen the quality of life of a patient. But what if you could return the faulty genes to normalcy as easily as fixing your profile picture with Photoshop? Or even create a designer baby with desired features? A gene-editing tool […]
Utility Innovations – The Lesser Known Sibling to Patents
When we talk about obtaining intellectual property rights on a new product or a process, we usually direct those rights to patents. Patent rights is a type of intellectual property rights in which the owner of an invention is awarded with a monopolistic ownership of the product or a process for a given period of […]
The Catfight in Singapore
By Louis Teo Pets here, pets there, pets everywhere! According to the 2015-2016 APPA National Pet Owners Survey by the American Pet Products Association, the number of households with pets in the US is 79.7 million and of those, the households that own at least one pet is 42.9 million. As some household have more than […]
[Malaysia SME] Reaping Riches in the Creative Industry
[Patents & Licensing] Southeast Asian countries’ performance in the International IP Index growing
[Business Today] [K]onfused with KIKO and KEICHO?
Offshore Security Surveillance
By Ilangkumanan Kashaban Safety and security has been a growing concern recently throughout the world. The main reason being is 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 […]
Reaping Riches in the Creative Industry
By Geetha Kandiah Books, music, pictures, videos and other creative works have special intangible rights attached to them, known as “copyright”. These rights are owned by the creators of the work – authors, producers, photographers, musicians, songwriters, artists and such – who can choose to do anything they wish with their exclusive rights. The copyright […]
[Business Today] The Burning Question – Who Owns the Trademark?
[K]ONFUSED with KIKO and KEICHO?
By Geetha Kandiah “I’m a big believer in that if you focus on good skin care, you won’t really need a lot of make-up” Demi Moore once said. It is not surprising that the global value sales in the beauty industry is expected to exceed US$131 billion in 2019, with skin care as the biggest […]