Tag: patent

  • Singapore Woos Non-Resident Foreign Businesses To File International IP Applications From Singapore Via WIPO

    By Constance Leong   27 October 2017, Singapore. Without much fanfare, the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (“IPOS”) has published new September 2017 Guidelines (“the new 2017 Guidelines”) to supplement and clarify the current definition of “real and effective industrial or commercial establishment”.   IPOS’s current definition published in its Online Form MM2(E) Filing Guide 2016 (for trademark) (“the 2016…

  • 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…

  • Japan’s Towa loses bid to inspect patent infringing product against Singapore’s ASM Technology

    By Constance Leong 30 August 2014, Singapore. An application by Japan’s Towa to inspect patent infringing product against Singapore’s ASM Technology has been rejected by the Singapore High Court judge. ASM Technology Singapore Pte Ltd (“ASM”), a Singapore subsidiary of a Hong Kong listed company, has been sued for patent infringement by Japanese company Towa Corporation (“Towa”) in…