At 11 o’clock in the morning, I waited at a “mamak” restaurant for my friend to arrive. The place was in a quiet corner of the Curve. Customers chattered, tapping away at laptops, sipping teh tarik, some smoking, some deep in conversation. People hang out there to kill time, before heading elsewhere for the real […]
Hip hop artist sends Coca-Cola letter of demand in music video
It happened in Canada… with Coca-Cola! Here’s a story about Coca-Cola. A Canadian hip hop artist with the stage name B. Rich (real name Brendan Richmond) made a music video a few years back, called “Out for a Rip”. It has more than 12 million views on YouTube as of today. One day, Mr Richmond […]
Waymo vs Otto, or, the Google vs Uber proxy fight
Hello Anthony Anthony Levandowski. Picture from Wired.com (which got it from NY Times) Anthony Levandowski is an ex-employee of Google who had joined the company in 2007. Notably, he was involved in “lidar”, which stands for “light detection and ranging”, a way to detect objects using the principle of radar, but using light from a […]
PatentScope – Free Patent Tool from WIPO
WIPO stands for the World Intellectual Property Organization Use the PatentScope – WIPO’s Free Tool for Patent Lawyers WIPO, the World Intellectual Property Organization, has a tool that’s available for free, called PatentScope. With this tool, it is possible to search prior art patents from multiple databases, which many inventors pay professionals to do. PatentScope […]
The MP3 Patent and Its Expiry – A Patent Agent’s Perspective
MP3: The world’s favourite music file format A long, long time ago, when mankind first started to digitize audio into computer formats, they used wave files, which typically sported the extension “WAV”. These wave files stored audio faithfully, while preserving their values, but required great amounts of storage space, as they were typically quite large. […]