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Patent Story: A little background
Recently, a local company (Vuestar Technologies P/L) sent invoices (ranging from hundreds to thousands of Singapore dollars) to numerous website owners. Basically, the company claimed that those websites are infringing their patent, and thus requesting for payment for the license fee.Before we look specifically into the Vuestar scenario, I think it would be better to have a little more background knowledge in patents.What is a patent ?From IPOS (Intellectual Property Office of Singapore):“A Patent is a monopoly right given by the Government to the owner of an invention to enable him to prevent others from using, copying or making the invention without his consent in the country in which he has obtained patent protection.”What is patentable ?“A patentable invention can be a product or a process that gives a new technical solution to a problem. It can be a new method of doing things, the composition of a new product, or a technical improvement on how certain objects work.”According to IPOS, for an inve
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