[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] ON-SITE PLANT VISITS – can be dangerous as confidential information can leak. Do manufacturers have such concerns?
Utility Innovations – The Lesser Known Sibling to Patents
When we talk about obtaining intellectual property rights on a new product or a process, we usually direct those rights to patents. Patent rights is a type of intellectual property rights in which the owner of an invention is awarded with a monopolistic ownership of the product or a process for a given period of […]
Offshore Security Surveillance
By Ilangkumanan Kashaban Safety and security has been a growing concern recently throughout the world. The main reason being is 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 […]
[Trademart] Guarding Your Rights in the Creative Industry
[ITMA Review] Whose Photo Is It Anyway?
By KASS International In an age where photographs are taken, shared, and repurposed at a scale that would have been unimaginable a generation ago, the question of who owns a photograph has never been more contested. Every day, millions of images are uploaded to social media platforms, scraped by websites, reproduced in marketing materials, and […]
[Asia IP] Who Owns the Copyright in a Photograph
By KASS International Pick up any smartphone, point it at something interesting, and press a button. In that fraction of a second, a copyright is created. It sounds simple, and in its most basic form it is. But the moment you introduce a client, an employer, a commissioned brief, a social media platform, or an […]