Tag: Invention

A blind date with Patents…

By Megha Anand Fear of the unknown or realization that you are responsible for what happens next in your life provides the adrenalin rush felt during a blind date. Similar is the experience when one embarks on the patenting journey, being “blind” on what’s already existing as “prior art” for his/her invention and yet proceeding […]

Imagination vs Innovation

By Jagannathan Arumugam “What? A card for paying money?” This is how people might have reacted when they were first introduced to the concept of debit card in the utopian science fiction novel “Looking Backward From 2000 to 1887” by Edward Bellamy (Though it was called as a credit card in the novel). One may […]

Exploiting the Novelty Grace Period

By Jagannathan Arumugam  In general, patents are territorial, as a patent is a set of exclusive rights by a Government body granted to an inventor over an invention for a limited time period in return for disclosing the invention to the public. Even though each country follows a different procedure for granting a patent, all […]

[Business Today] How not to reinvent the wheel – part 1

A Cautionary Tale While celebrating the Lunar New Year with his relatives and dodging questions from nosy aunts on when he would be finding a mate to settle down with, Eddy Sun had a sudden flash of inspiration when he saw a Chinese firecracker explode into thousands of red paper flecks. Three caffeine-fuelled, sleep-deprived days […]