Intellectual property

TAKING HEART

Singapore-based Piece Future helps startups leverage unused patents

It matches startups to companies and universities that have unused IP, so that the technologies are not sitting idle

Luckin, a coffee chain, successfully sued a business in Thailand that had opened cafes under the same name with an almost identical logo.
THE BOTTOM LINE

China once stole foreign ideas. Now it wants to protect its own

The country’s courts are inundated with intellectual-property cases

Ng Say Keong sued Jia Le Aluminium and 9 Power Aluminium & Glass in 2024, accusing them of infringing his patent and passing off their products as SK doors.

Singapore inventor wins High Court suit against rivals who passed off similar doors as his design

The Malaysian company by Ng’s former employee Goh Song Guan, manufactures a similar slide-and-swing door known as “SD Door”

The programme was announced by Senior Minister of State for Digital Development and Information Tan Kiat How at the opening of the Asia TV Forum & Market 2025 on Wednesday (Dec 3).

IMDA launches S$200 million Talent Accelerator Programme for Singapore’s media industry

It will focus on global distribution and intellectual property development in the sector

TSMC says former senior vice-president Lo Wen-jen Lo is highly likely to leak or transfer its trade secrets to Intel.

TSMC sues former senior vice-president who joined Intel over trade secrets

The company says Lo had failed to disclose in his exit interview that he was planning to work for Intel

With technological advances making it easier to copy and take data out of a system, the theft of intellectual property is becoming more common.
BRUNCH

Hands off the company’s data: How protecting such intellectual property becomes challenging

With more cases of data theft from firms, do we need to have tougher legal options to protect proprietary information?

The dispute led a US trade tribunal to block imports of Apple’s Series 9 and Ultra 2 smartwatches in 2023 after finding that Apple’s technology infringed Masimo’s patents.

US jury says Apple must pay Masimo US$634 million in smartwatch patent case

A FEDERAL jury in California said on Friday(Nov 14) that Apple owes medical-monitoring technology company Masimo US$634 million for infringing a patent covering blood-oxygen reading technology.

TSMC had argued that the use of the two words in combination is unique and unusual, and that the slogan has been registered in other countries.

Chipmaker TSMC fails in bid to trademark ‘Unleash Innovation’ slogan in Singapore

[SINGAPORE] The world’s largest contract chipmaker, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), has failed in its bid to register the slogan “Unleash Innovation” as a trademark in Singapore.

Pictiva convinced the jury that a wide range of Samsung devices violate Pictiva’s patent rights in technology for enhancing the resolution, brightness and power efficiency of OLED displays.

Samsung hit with US$191.4 million US jury verdict in OLED patent trial, plans appeal

SAMSUNG Electronics owes patent owner Pictiva Displays US$191.4 million in damages for infringing two US patents covering organic light-emitting diode technology, a jury in Texas federal court said on...

The Patent and Market Court said Shein’s Ireland-based subsidiary Infinite Styles Ecommerce had without permission made copies of pictures owned by Nelly, and made them available to the public on Shein’s Swedish website.

Swedish court says Shein breached copyright of rival Nelly

[STOCKHOLM] A Swedish court said on Friday (Oct 3) it had found that online fast-fashion retailer Shein had infringed the copyright of smaller rival Nelly by using the Swedish company’s photographs.