Last 24th till 26th of June, 3 straight days I had let myself to be indulged by a topic called 'Commercialization'. I can say, all this while it never really a concern to me.. this 'commercial' word... accept for the commercial on TV.. which I now surprisingly welcome in between movies to enable me wash the dishes or pick up dry clothes from the hangars. Hmm, back during school time, I used to hate these commercials.. annoying segment that interrupted my favourite shows.. Haha, what happened to that teenage girl now?? Interesting how age could change a person's behaviour... 'maturity'... Hmm, probably that's the word.
The whole course is somewhat a 'wake-up' call for me, I'm not too sure about other participants.. for most of them seems already well-versed to this topic. Dr Chris; the instructor revealed to us the need of putting the 'commercialization' idea in our mind right at the beginning on planning of our research. However, the commercialization could not stand alone without an act of 'patenting' which is designed to safeguard the inventor and the invention.
This morning, I was visited by UKM's Intellectual Property (IP) personnel, and we engrossed in communication regarding the 'disclosure' issue; how much should a scientist reveal data to public. Indeed, we do agree that prior for a product to be published in a journal, the concept, designed or whatever applies to the product should be registered and filed in the IP dept. This will safeguard the inventor for any plagiarism activity. Nonetheless, what concern me now would be whether anyone has considered about the safety and reliability of the conferences and seminars where scientists convene to share their preliminary ideas in forms of posters and proceedings? Human being human, is always blessed with implausible reaction.
Hence, it is a scary thought to even think about a property that belongs to one today, will unexpectedly officially belongs to another the next day due to canny plagiarism.
Well, Have you SECURE your INVENtiON yet??
It's so much easier if patent is automatic upon registration and is for free. If and when there's a similar patent in other country, whomever registered it earlier gets the patent or both owner of the patents gets joint patent upon adjudication.
ReplyDeletePatenting do involves several steps... Some steps can also be identified as tedious as well as costly. Hmm... I'm not sure whether our govt has practiced on giving incentive and subsidy to our local inventors to induce the 'patenting' mentally as our way of life. For patenting is a very good business if we can just sit down and think about it for a moment.. Umppphhh...
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