[Business Today] Freedom Isn’t Free
[The Petri Dish] Compulsory Licensing for Pharmaceutical Products
[The Petri Dish] New Development on Patent Protection on Medical Methods
Freedom Isn’t Free!
Have you ever tried to register for an email or social networking account? Chances are your first few choices of usernames had already been taken up by someone else. Naturally, you would end up with silly usernames like “HunnyBunny” or “VinnyPeach”, which my colleagues have recently informed me, were slightly suggestive in nature. If I […]
Building Contractors In Patent Infringment Battle
A building contractor who asserted that it merely constructed buildings for the Malaysian Government according to technical drawings provided by JKR (the Public Works Department representing the Government of Malaysia) was held by the High Court to have: infringed Malaysian Patent No. MY114346-A granted to O-Stable Sdn Bhd (the patentee and the 1st Plaintiff) infringed the copyright […]
[MGCC Perspectives] Clean Technology – It’s About Time
By KASS International The transition to a low-carbon economy is no longer a distant policy objective. It is a present-day industrial race. Governments are setting aggressive climate targets, investors are directing capital toward sustainable innovation, and companies across sectors are rethinking how energy is produced, stored, and used. In this environment, clean technology is moving […]
India Raises The Bar On Patentability Of Pharmaceuticals
In the much awaited decision of the Supreme Court of India in the case of Novartis AG vs. Union of India and others, the Supreme Court upheld the decision of the Indian Patent Office which refused to grant a patent on the beta crystalline form of the imatinib mesylatechemical compound, a therapeutic drug for chronic myeloid […]