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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…
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Potential of Singapore’s New International Commercial Court in Hearing Cross-Border IP Disputes
By Constance Leong 16 January 2015, Singapore. Given the international nature of intellectual property (IP), the newly launched Singapore International Commercial Court (SICC) has the potential to hear cross-border IP disputes. Persons whose disputes may only have tenuous connection to Singapore may choose to have them heard before Singapore’s highly respected, local and international commercial…
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Singapore: Asia’s Emerging Global IP Hub
By Constance Leong 1 April 2013, Singapore. The Singapore Government has plans to develop Singapore as a Global Intellectual Property (IP) Hub in Asia and it knows that any endeavor on such a large scale would be best effected by a Committee of experts. This Committee comprises a banker, lawyers, a university professor, a research…
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Constance Leong
Expertise & Experience Constance practises Intellectual Property (IP) law and has particular expertise in the following fields: Copyright, Trade Mark, Registered Design, Patents, Trade Secrets, Confidential Information, Franchise, Personal Data Protection, Internet Law (Social Media), and…