Tag: Patent

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 […]

[The Petri Dish] RNAi and related patentability issues

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 is widely applied […]

[The Petri Dish] Offshore Security Surveillance

Safety and security has been a growing concern recently throughout the world. The main reasons are accidents, i.e. fire and explosions and criminal activities, such as act of terrorism and piracy. Land is not the only place for such threat, seas and oceans are getting the same as well. In past years, different ways and/or […]

[Business Today] Fireworks

When the clock ticks to 12 o’clock to welcome New Year, it is the most anticipated moment in everyone’s life or at least majority of us to watch, feel, hear and smell the sparkles of fireworks that beautify the sky in every part of the world. With that, I came across an article, the world’s […]