WIPO Magazine - Nbr. 2-2006, March 2006
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More than 1.2 million international patent applications covering new technology of every description have been filed since the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) began operating in 1978. In our series of snapshots, WIPO Magazine selects a few of the inventions and seeks out the people behind them. In this edition, we find innovative engineering techniques applied to architecture, neurosurgery and train travel.
PCT Portraits: The People Behind the Patents
On Track for Safer Trains
Mumbai, 1999 - another train collision on India’s western coast shook the Konkan Railway Corporation. Something had to be done. "We could not allow another life handed to us in trust to be lost in another accident routinely classified as human failure," declared Bojji Rajaram, then ma...
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