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An ex-military man who has been fighting the Ministry of Defence over his patent rights has become completely disillusioned with the Singapore government and no longer believes that Singapore has what it takes to become a global IP hub.
After the 11 September 2001 attacks on the United States, Dr Ting and his partners invented the Station With Immediate First-Aid Treatment (SWIFT) vehicle.
SWIFT is a mobile clinic that can be deployed in times of emergency.
Dr Ting later applied for patent rights for his vehicle in at least nine countries and obtained intellectual property (IP) rights in nearly all these countries, including Singapore.
He applied to the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS) on 27 December 2002 whereby checks were made with the Danish Patent and Trademark Office.
He got his IP from IPOS on 6 July 2005.
Dr Ting then filed for patent rights and also got them in Australia, Japan, Israel, Taiwan, Malaysia, Hong Kong, the United States of America and Europe.
However, his patent in Singapore will now most likely be revoked because of an overbearing government which believes that they have the right to brush him aside for his work.
With the state of affairs in Singapore with its dictatorial rule, one can’t win a case against a government agency.
Only through the conscious action of the working masses in city and country can it be brought to life, only through the people’s highest intellectual maturity and inexhaustible idealism can it be brought safely through all storms and find its way to port.
The intellectual property situation is bad and getting worse in Singapore. Any foreign startup is likely to be at risk in the city state as the dictatorship may have underhand methods to force them to hand over ther patented inventions.
The methods employed by the military industrial complex in Singapore are best shady and pose a great threat to inventors. Within the totalitarian regime, the leadership controls nearly all aspects of the state from economical to political to social and cultural.
Totalitarian regimes control science, education, art and private lives of residents to the degree of dictation of morality. The reach of the government is limitless.
Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue.
Society as a whole has complex issues to face here and Singapore, with its dreams of becoming an IP hub, has now become a laughing stock.
Loren