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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. […]
Change of Patent Law in Singapore from “Self-Assessment” to “Positive Grant” System
The Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS) will implement a new system in their patent law and regulations, effective 11 January 2014. New Singapore national applications, PCT national phase applications and divisional patent applications filed on or after the effective date will be prosecuted under the new “Positive Grant System”. Currently IPOS practices a “Self-Assessment […]
[The Petri Dish] The Bolar Provision: A Defence to Patent Infringement
[BFM] Up The Ante: IP Challenges in Green Technology
Get insights to the challenges in the green technology sector from this BFM89.9 Up The Ante podcast! Featuring: Geetha K., KASS International & Robert Pascoe Your browser does not support native audio, but you can download this MP3 to listen on your device.
[MGCC Perspectives] Patents and Trade Secrets for Protecting Green Technology
By KASS International Every green technology business faces the same fundamental question at some point in its development: how do we protect what we have built? The answer is rarely simple, and it is almost never a matter of choosing a single IP right and applying it universally. The most sophisticated and commercially effective approach […]
In Defense of Monopoly
By Vincent Teh You are perpetuating the insatiable greed of mega corporations by creating unjust monopoly on precious ideas,” was the accusation thrown at me by a young impressionable man-boy upon hearing what I do for a living during lunch one day. I simply reached over and appropriated his food. “This,” I said, “is the […]