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Frigg is a very successful fashion designer.She is the head designer and creative director for an international fashion house Keiko Kelda Limited (KKL). She produces
Frigg is a very successful fashion designer.She is the head designer and creative director for an international fashion house Keiko Kelda Limited (KKL). She produces four major clothing collections for KKL each year. Frigg is KKL Fashions creative designer also engages is research for KKL into uses of new materials and where possible the development of new fabrics with innovative properties. Her research includes:
Developing a bulletproof fabric for wealthy clients. The fabric is required to be thin, lightweight, and soft without restricting the wearer's movement. The present bulletproof fabrics such as Kevlar, require numerous layers to be effective, and thus are thick, bulky, heavy, and can restrict movement.The ultimate aim is to produce a fabric that can be worn the same as an average shirt, T-shirt or blouses and trousers. Clothes made of this fabric would be indistinguishable from normal clothes made of cotton, silk, wool, polyester or other synthetic fabrics.
Frigg developed a yarn using spider silk. Spider silk is light and flexible, and is stronger by weight than high-grade steel. Spiders produce spider silk naturally. It is a protein fibre used in the spider's web. The strength of spider silk is well known. The process of harvesting the silk from spiders has been a problem for Frigg's research as spiders eat each other if placed in close proximity, thus mass production of the silk in the manner used with silkworms is not possible. Frigg has produced a chemical alternative that reproduces the protein structure of spider-silk, but does not require harvesting directly from the spiders. The chemical formulae of the spider protein is known, and 12 years of research into making artificial spider silk solutions by a lot of academics and industry engineers specialising in uses of bulletproof has been useless in solving the problems. No one has been able to create a process to produce a commercial quantity of the artificial spider silk.
Frigg used her knowledge of chemical production of polyester and rayon fabrics to develop a process to stabile the artificial protein during its setting process. This stabilising process succeeded where the previous research had not.It is the first commercial production that has solved the problem of replicating the protein as a thread.KKL are ecstatic and announce to the fashion media that Frigg will be producing a collection of clothing using the artificial spider silk for the fashion weeks in London, New York and Paris next year 2021.
This yarn when woven produces a soft light bulletproof fabric that weights 4.43 grams per meter squared. The fabric is used in all forms of casual or formal garments. The known patents for producing a bulletproof fabric like Kevlar specify a requirement that the fabric weighs 175 grams per square meter.
Explain using appropriate cases and legislation, whether Frigg could obtain a patent under the Patents Act (1990) for the process of producing the artificial spider silk and the bulletproof fabric itself?
I would be happy with dot points and a little guide i dont need A FULL EXPLAINATION
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