[Business Today] Trademarks, R-rated
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. […]
Don’t Go Chasing Watersports: F1 vs F1H20
To most people the term “F1” is synonymous with the highest level of motor sport where the races are fuelled as much by drama as they are by gasoline. With year round races taking place in 19 countries, spreading across 6 continents and watched by hundreds of millions of TV audiences worldwide, the fame of […]
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 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 […]