IN 2013, actress Angelina Jolie had a preventive double mastectomy after tests confirmed she had a BRCA1 gene mutation, which greatly increased her risk of developing breast and ovarian cancer. She noted that the tests were out of reach for most women due to its high cost (US$3,000) charged by Myriad

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Intellectual property rights are the rights given to persons over the creations of their minds. They usually give the creator an exclusive right over the use of his/her creation for a certain period of time.

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Intellectual property is the oil of the 21 century. Look at the richest men a hundred years ago; they all made their money extracting natural resources or moving them around. All today’s richest men have made their money out of intellectual property.

– Mark Gerry

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” Patents need inventors more than inventors need patents.”
― Kalyan C. Kankanala, Fun IP, Fundamentals of Intellectual Property

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Instantly recognisable, the Coca-Cola contour bottle is a masterpiece in industrial design that dates back to 1915 when the Coca-Cola Company asked its bottle suppliers to design a new bottle that would be distinctive and instantly recognisable – even in the dark. Designer Earl R. Dean took

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