Tag: intellectual property

  • Singapore’s “FinTech Fast Track” initiative is doing swimmingly well, thank you

    By Constance Leong 26 April 2019, Singapore. *Kat friend Constance Leong has kindly provided an update on the state of Singapore’s FinTech Fast Track initiative.  The first year of Singapore’s fast track patent scheme, known as the FinTech Fast Track (“FTFT”), has progressed so well it would seem, that the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (“IPOS”)…

  • Upcoming Changes in Singapore’s Patents Law & What They Mean For Businesses & Patent Applicants

    By Constance Leong 1 February 2017, Singapore. Significant developments in Singapore’s patents laws are expected to kick in soon in the near future. The key highlights are as follows: Expanding the scope of the 12-month Grace Period[i] for exempting novelty-destroying disclosures (implementation date: 30 October 2017); New statutory declaration (“SD”) requirement for the Grace Period, pre-grant and…

  • DIY Patent Analytics for Innovation

    By Constance Leong 14 September 2016, Singapore. A decision whether to file a patent is not one made in a vacuum amongst inventors / R&D scientists. It is a business decision that requires business wisdom. Patent Analytics [also known as  Intellectual Property (“IP”)  Market Intelligence] empowers that business decision and even policy decision. What is…

  • No Utility Model Protection in Singapore, For Now

    By Constance Leong 4 April 2016, Singapore. After a recent review and public consultation that ended in December 2015, the Singapore Government again decided not to introduce a utility model system, a system known to facilitate protection of “small” inventions in a cheaper and faster way and for a shorter time period than the traditional…

  • Singapore High Court Disallows Post-grant Patent Amendments for the First Time

    By Constance Leong 12 August 2015, Singapore. Singapore has the world’s busiest transhipment hub. It therefore comes as no surprise that coupling pieces for ship cargo securing, called twistlocks, are highly valued in Singapore. This was the invention that lay at the center of the dispute in a High Court case of Ship’s Equipment Centre…