The Inventor’s Dilemma

By P. Kandiah Inventors or researchers who have invented a potentially commercially useful product or process are often faced with a dilemma as to whether to:   Seek patent rights for the invention, or Keep the details of the invention confidential (or as a trade secret), or Publish the details of the invention and depend […]

[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 […]

Trademarks, (R) Rated

By Vincent Teh WARNING: The following article contains pervasive language and trademarks that are highly inappropriate. Reader discretion is advised. Sex sells. Who could forget Brook Shields’ “Do you want to know what comes between me and my Calvins? Nothing!” referring to the (rather unhygienic) lack of barrier between her Calvin Klein jeans and herself. […]