Tag: trade mark
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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…
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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…