Coinciding with the celebration of the World Intellectual Property day, patent certificates were awarded to the first-ever two inventors in the country.
With patent rights, the inventors have been given the sole right to make, use and sell their invention for a set period.
Redeem time-control plasma is one of the patent recipients. This is an anti-aging product, jointly, developed by Quantum Pharmaceuticals Ltd based in Hong Kong and three Bhutanese co-inventors. Redeem is a biochemical invention that contains plant extracts for cosmetic treatment.
“Inventors spend a lot of their time thinking, and doing research for many years. And this time investment must be protected. This (patent) is also an incentive/protection for people to come up with new ideas”, says the vice president of Quantum Pharmaceuticals and also an inventor, Dr. Atti-La Dahlgren.
Redeem is currently manufactured in Switzerland. Dr Atti-la added that they are collaborating with the Ministry of agriculture and forests to look into the possibility of manufacturing other products in Bhutan in the future.
Similarly, an electrical engineer by profession, Jigme Tobgyel, received a patent certificate for inventing a cement-based electrical grounding system that is durable, safe, reliable and maintenance-free.
“To be a knowledge-based society, we must develop in terms of intellectual property. I think our youth should definitely be inclined in this direction. It is not absolutely essential to be brilliant, even a very simple idea can be used to create something with industrial applicability”, Jigme Tobgyel says.
This year, the World intellectual Property Day was observed on the theme, “Creativity: the next generation”.
