Patents are valuable assets. It is sometimes necessary for owners to assert their patent rights in legal proceedings and, equally, for third parties restricted from selling rival goods by the existence of patents that are not valid to seek revocation of the rights those patents confer.
White House says US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to head back to North Korea for new talks with Kim Jong-un
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will head back to North Korea for new talks with Kim Jong-un about ending the stand-off over Pyongyang’s nuclear programme, the White House said on Monday.
“To continue the ongoing and important work of denuclearisation on the Korean peninsula, Secretary Pompeo will be leaving for North Korea on July 5 to meet with the leader and the team,” spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters.
US State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said…
12 missing boys and soccer coach found alive after nine days trapped in Thai cave
Twelve boys and their football coach trapped in a flooded Thai cave for nine days were found alive late Monday after a painstaking search by specialist divers who finally discovered the emaciated group on a mud embankment.
The incredible moment that the divers made contact with the boys was captured on a video released by the Thai Navy SEALs.
There had been no contact with the boys, aged between 11 and 16, since they went missing with their 25-year-old coach on June 23.
The massive…
UK drugs companies face disadvantage due to EMA Brexit approach
The European Medicines Agency’s (EMA’s) assumption that the UK will be a ‘third country’ after its withdrawal from the EU, and no longer part of the Europe-wide drugs safety monitoring system, would put UK-based drug companies at a disadvantage, a life sciences expert has said.
Outrage after Malaysian ‘child predator’, 41, makes 11-year-old Thai girl his third wife
A Malaysian man has sparked outrage in the Muslim-majority country after he reportedly made an 11-year-old Thai girl his third wife, with one activist Sunday labelling the groom a “child predator”.
Malaysian Muslims below the age of 16 are allowed to marry if they obtain the permission of a religious court.
Sweden classifies nonconsensual sex as rape
But the country’s women and families ministry said there was no record of religious authorities approving the union, which took…
Cambodians set world record for longest handwoven scarf, which took six months to weave
Cambodia won a place in the Guinness Book of World Records on Sunday for a 1,100-metre-long version of the country’s popular krama scarf.
Supported by a youth movement with links to the nation’s ruling party, more than 23,000 people took part in the six-month weaving marathon outside Phnom Penh’s Royal Palace.
Thousands of young people then rolled out the krama along a street in the capital on Sunday for a visiting Guinness official to measure the garment.
“With 1,149.8…
Sex, spas, sleaze: what Orchard Road of Singapore hides in plain sight
It is evening on a sultry Sunday and a meandering crowd of families, tourists and food delivery riders jostle for space on the footpath outside Concorde Hotel. Yet all is still and silent inside the building’s shopping wing, except for two units offering massage and facial services.
In one of them, located beside the security desk, a middle-aged lady wearing a lime green halter top and beige miniskirt performs a series of jumping jacks in full view of passers-by. Her eyes dart…
Snubbed in world’s biggest war game, will Beijing make waves in South China Sea?
The resource-rich Spratly and Paracel archipelagos may be the main sticking points in the South China Sea territorial dispute, and this week the world’s two major powers were shadowboxing over the issue thousands of kilometres away in Beijing and the Western Pacific.
On the Chinese side, the fresh missive came from President Xi Jinping as he warned the visiting US Secretary of Defence James Mattis that while Beijing – a claimant to the contested waters – was committed to peace…
Fighting cancer in Singapore, eating plastic in Indonesia: is Southeast Asia the next Silicon Valley?
Charles Guinot’s journey to building a multimillion-dollar business started ordinarily enough. He was at a conference in China in 2015 when he first had an idea on how to use blockchain technology to solve his “painful” problem of filing taxes in Indonesia. To turn this idea into reality, the then 30-year-old robotics engineer from France decided to reprogram himself to become a blockchain developer because such developers were practically unheard of at the time. His…
Supreme Court redefines scope of actionable personal injury
ANALYSIS: The UK’s highest court has redefined the scope of an actionable personal injury, by finding that employees can in principle recover damages for sensitisation to an allergy.