[Business Today] TPPA Dream: Is it Over?
[Management] Building Barriers Against Competition
By KASS International Every business faces competition. The question is not whether competitors will come, but how quickly they will arrive, how well equipped they will be, and how much damage they will do before the market settles into a new equilibrium. The businesses that survive and thrive over the long term are not always […]
[Business Today] On-Site Plant Visits
Fireworks
By Ilangkumanan Kashaban 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 […]
[The Petri Dish] Caution on On-Site Plant Visits
In Malaysia, many manufacturing companies are becoming more enlightened and more aware of patent rights, trade secrets and the importance of safeguarding trade secrets against inadvertent disclosure to third parties or strangers visiting the production facilities.
[Trademart] Offshore Security Surveillance
Intellectual Property Protection for SMEs Venturing Abroad
By Pravind KumarThe idea of going global and venturing into the export market seems to be a rather unnerving and formidable endeavour for most local SMEs (small and medium enterprises) in Malaysia. This is evidenced by the fact that SME contribution to export is fairly low at 19% despite accounting for 99% of all business […]
The TPPA Dream: Is it over?
By Joel Cheong While the whole wide world was still reeling from the news of Brexit and Brangelexit (Seriously, who comes up with terms like these?), the news of Donald Trump edging against fellow presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to become the next US president may have overloaded the incredulity meter of most common folks. As those […]
[Business Today] Trademarks as a competitive advantage
Trademarks indicate the source of the product or service to a customer. That is the primary role of a trademark. However, trademarks have come to play a very important role in today’s business world. How is a manufacturer of products to attract the attention of a customer whose attention is drawn by hundreds of similar […]