[Malaysia SME] Commercialisation Initiative Overdue

By KASS International Malaysia has a research problem. Not a problem with the quality of its research, which is considerable, nor with the volume of its research output, which has grown substantially over the past two decades. The problem is what happens after the research is done. In laboratory after laboratory, in university after university, […]

Milking the King of Monsters!

By Vincent Teh I love movies, I always have and I always will. While I wouldn’t go so far as to call myself a geek and neither would I ingratiate myself with the pointy eared and leotard sporting fan boys at the Comic-Cons, I do consider myself the Rain Man of movies. Although my not […]

[AsiaIP] Government Invest US$65 Million To Help SMEs Use Patents

By KASS International For years, the conversation around patents in Malaysia has centred on a familiar complaint: the process is too expensive, too slow, and too complicated for small and medium businesses to engage with meaningfully. The government’s decision to commit US$65 million to help Malaysian SMEs navigate and leverage the patent system is therefore […]

[PC.COM] IP Rights In ICT

By KASS International The information and communications technology industry runs on intellectual property. Every application on your smartphone, every line of code powering a cloud platform, every chip architecture enabling artificial intelligence, and every brand name that has become synonymous with the devices and services we use daily exists within a framework of IP rights […]

[Business Today] IP Rights in ICT

By KASS International The information and communications technology industry is unlike any other. It moves faster, disrupts more completely, and creates and destroys competitive advantage at a pace that most traditional industries would find difficult to comprehend. In this environment, intellectual property rights are not a bureaucratic formality or a legal afterthought. They are the […]