Tag: Patent

Million ringgit patent dispute in Malaysia

By P. Kandiah  Picture this: A rapidly contested patent infringement battle in Malaysia, millions of ringgit at stake. In one corner of the ring, we have Kingtime International Limited (Kingtime), the owner of Malaysian Patent No. MY-144898-A. In the opposite corner, we have Petrofac E&C Sdn Bhd, a fellow player in the oil & gas […]

Do our Politicians own any Intellectual Property?

Election fever is UP! Everyone is speaking about the next Malaysian General Election, especially since polling day is in 2 days’ time! I was recently invited to speak on Bernama TV and the topic was on whether our former and current Prime Ministers’ in Malaysia own any Intellectual Property (IP) rights. The brief answer is […]

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 […]

RNAi and Related Patentability Issues

By P. Kandiah & Sharrmila Palanyandy RNA interference (RNAi) is an evolutionally highly conserved process of post-transcriptional gene silencing (PTGs) by which double-stranded RNA (ds RNA) causes sequence-specific degradation of mRNA sequences. RNAi is a biological process in which RNA molecules inhibit gene expression, typically by causing the destruction of specific mRNA molecules. RNAi technology […]

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 […]