[Malaysia SME] Bringing up your trademark
Light at the End of the Tunnel: BIORE vs. BIORF
By Carla Monintja The quote “There’s a light at the end of the tunnel” really inspires me, as it gives me hope that every difficulty I encounter can surely be resolved, as long as I make the effort to overcome it. This quote was also apt in the situation that KAO Corporation (“KAO”) got itself […]
[Business Today] Industrial Design – Very Good for Business!
[The Petri Dish] The Trans-Pacific Partnership: A Whiff of What can be Expected
[Business Today] Taking Flight: Your Aviation Wingman
Industrial Design: Very Good For Business!
by Vincent Teh “Good design is good business” said Thomas J. Watson, the former CEO of IBM. And he is right. From the time in the Pleistocene when our evolutionary ancestor took a branch and fashioned it into a stick to fish for juicy termites, to the time our ice-age forefather hunted mammoths with his […]
[The Petri Dish] Stem Cell Research: Embryonic vs Non-Embryonic
The Bolar Provision: A Defense to Patent Infringement
By P. Kandiah & Kimberly Liam What happens when a patent for a particular drug expires or is about to expire? Patented drugs lose their patent exclusivity as they go off patent and pharmaceutical companies that own these patents start to worry as the generic pharmaceutical companies begin to sell their drugs in the market. […]
A Rose by Any Other Name…
“It is the time you have lost for your rose that makes your rose so important,” wrote Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in The Little Prince. This saying proved particularly apt in the feud between two cosmetic distributors, Hai Tong Co (Pte) Ltd v. Ventree Singapore Pte Ltd et al., which was finally settled in a cross-appeal case that was brought […]