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Change to positive grant system: draft Patent (Amendment) Rules released

  • Bird & Bird
  • -
  • Singapore
  • -
  • February 28 2013

The draft Patents (Amendment) Rules 2013 have been released by the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS) in preparation for the changes to

Key changes to the patent prosecution & registration regime in Singapore in 2013

  • Rajah & Tann LLP
  • -
  • Singapore
  • -
  • February 25 2013

This is a follow-up to our previous client update of July 2012. We had mentioned then that Singapore will be moving away from its present

Key legislative and regulatory developments in 2012

  • Rajah & Tann LLP
  • -
  • Singapore
  • -
  • January 30 2013

This Update provides a brief summary of the key statutory and regulatory developments in 2012. Three Amendment Acts were passed in 2012 and came into

Singapore and South Korea sign MOUs on intellectual property cooperation and Patent Prosecution Highway programme

  • Wong Partnership
  • -
  • Singapore, South Korea
  • -
  • January 4 2013

A Memorandum of Understanding ("MOU") on comprehensive Intellectual Property ("IP") cooperation and a MOU on a pilot Patent Prosecution Highway ("PPH"

The relevance of EPO decisions to Singapore

  • ATMD Bird & Bird LLP
  • -
  • European Union, Singapore
  • -
  • October 26 2012

Main-Line Corporate Holdings Ltd (Main-Line) is the owner of a patented method and system registered in Singapore on 30 June 2003, that automatically determines the operating currency in which to process a transaction for a credit card, charge card or debit card at the point of sale between a merchant and the cardholder, without the need for any manual selection or intervention by the merchant andor the cardholder to identify the card’s currency (the Patent

Proposed amendments to the Patents Act and other intellectual property related acts

  • Wong Partnership
  • -
  • Singapore
  • -
  • August 16 2012

To strengthen our existing patent regime and further develop our intellectual property (“IP”) infrastructure in response to the growth in the demand for IP, the Ministry of Law and the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (“IPOS”) recently tabled the Patents (Amendment) Bill and the Intellectual Property (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill before Parliament on 14 May 2012

Patents (Amendment) Bill 2012: shift from self-assessment to positive grant patent system

  • Allen & Gledhill LLP
  • -
  • Singapore
  • -
  • July 31 2012

The principal statute governing patents in Singapore is the Patents Act

General counsel update

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • China, European Union, Germany, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Mongolia, Singapore, United Kingdom, USA
  • -
  • July 11 2012

This is the thirtieth in our series of general counsel updates which aim to summarise major developments in key areas

Proposed shift to "positive grant" patent system under Patents (Amendment) Bill 2012

  • Rajah & Tann LLP
  • -
  • Singapore
  • -
  • May 22 2012

The Patents (Amendment) Bill 2101 was introduced in Parliament on 14 May 2012

Astrazeneca AB (SE) v Sanofi-Aventis Singapore Pte Ltd

  • Wong Partnership
  • -
  • Singapore
  • -
  • April 30 2012

Generally, a licence from the Health Sciences Authority ("HSA") is required for the sale, supply or export of medicinal product