Fintech Fast Track (FTFT) initiative in Singapore is extended
By K. Ilangkumanan In our earlier update on the FinTech Fast Track (FTFT) initiative in Singapore, we highlighted a great initiative by the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS) to inspire and encourage Financial Technology (FinTech) enterprises and start-ups to develop solutions over conventional financial methods in the sector of financial services. This initiative has […]
Flyway to a cashless Singapore
By Jagannathan Arumugam Education to entertainment. Exploration to exploitation. Everything in the world is being digitized. A few Japanese companies are even in the process of making digitized companions for their customers. So why not money?
[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 […]
[Malaysia SME] Innovation in SMEs
By KASS International Innovation is not the exclusive preserve of Silicon Valley giants, multinational corporations, or government-funded research laboratories. It happens every day in small workshops in Penang, in modest offices in Kuala Lumpur, in family-run factories in Johor, and in the minds of entrepreneurs who have identified a problem and are determined to solve […]
[The Petri Dish] Technical Knowledge Database from Patents
By KASS International Most people think of a patent as a legal document. A certificate of ownership. A weapon to be deployed against infringers. And while it is certainly all of those things, this narrow view of the patent system obscures one of its most valuable and most consistently overlooked functions: the patent system is […]
[PC.COM] IP Rights In ICT
By KASS International The information and communications technology industry runs on intellectual property. Every application on your smartphone, every line of code powering a cloud platform, every chip architecture enabling artificial intelligence, and every brand name that has become synonymous with the devices and services we use daily exists within a framework of IP rights […]
[Business Today] IP Rights in ICT
By KASS International The information and communications technology industry is unlike any other. It moves faster, disrupts more completely, and creates and destroys competitive advantage at a pace that most traditional industries would find difficult to comprehend. In this environment, intellectual property rights are not a bureaucratic formality or a legal afterthought. They are the […]