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Newborn found abandoned in rubbish bin

Posted: 11 Dec 2013 06:05 PM PST

by Siti Hajar. Posted on December 12, 2013, Thursday

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN: A newborn was found in an empty rubbish bin near a house in Kg Lumapas yesterday morning, Borneo Bulletin reported.

The family residing at the house reported the matter to the Royal Brunei Police Force (RBPF) at 8.50am. It was the first such case that the RBPF has received this year.

It is believed that the baby girl had been indiscriminately placed in the rubbish bin in the wee hours.

Fortunately, the newborn is currently in good condition, weighing 2.42kg. She is currently being monitored at the Special Care Baby Unit of RIPAS Hospital in the capital.

No arrests have been made in connection to the case.

It was explained that a 19-year-old living at the house in Kg Lumapas was about to dispose of household rubbish when she heard what she thought sounded like the cries of a cat.

As she was afraid to investigate it on her own, she called out her father who then instructed her 15-year-old brother to take a closer look.

It was during this time that they found the newborn who was not covered with any form of protection against the elements. The lid of the bin had been detached.

The newborn with her umbilical cord still intact was relatively clean when she was found, indicating that her mother had taken the time to clean her up.

According to the family who discovered the newborn, the baby girl was lucky that she was found early, as strays would often frequent the trash bin to scour for food.

The last reported case of an abandoned baby in Brunei was in November 2012.

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Brunei holds seminar on strategies for protecting intellectual property

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 05:51 PM PST

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN: A full day seminar themed "Intellectual Property Considerations for Researchers and Entrepreneurs" was held jointly by Brunei Intellectual Property Office (BruIPO), Brunei Economic Development Board (BEDB) and Innovation and Enterprise Office (IEO) of University Brunei Darussalam (UBD) on Tuesday, Xinhua News reported.

The seminar was aimed at providing information to researchers and entrepreneurs about patents and trademarks. It helped provide greater clarity about the most appropriate intellectual property strategy to protect researchers and entrepreneurs' work, and also how to effectively commercialize their new and/or improved technology globally.

Nagender Aneja, IEO's patent officer, stressed the need to know when the results of invention or research should be published and when these should be protected for patents in his welcoming remarks.

He shared views as to how academic research is going to be in the future and pointed out patents will be playing an important role in academic research.

Meanwhile, Stephen Anderson, patent attorney in Australia and New Zealand, explained the fundamentals of intellectual property rights and guided participants for situations such as when patent or trademark should be registered.

Touching on collaborative research agreements, he emphasized that intellectual property ownership should be resolved in agreements in advance and failure to do this adequately is a common cause of disputes.

He also discussed on ways to commercialise intellectual property assets by placing a technology transfer arrangement agreement.

Farah Atiyah Zainal, assistant registrar of BruIPO, said that BruIPO has already acceded to the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) and is PCT receiving office.

PCT is an international treaty, administered by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), among more than 140 Paris Convention countries. It makes it possible to seek patent protection for an invention simultaneously in each of a large number of countries by filing a single "international" patent application instead of filling several separate national or regional patent applications.

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