Legislative changes to the Singapore patents law on 14 February 2014 introduced a new procedure known as Supplementary Examination to the foreign route prosecution option where reliance on final results of search and examination of certain foreign or international applications was possible subject to requirements being satisfied.
In effort to further ... Read More
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The Tobacco Plain Packaging Act 2011 in Australia has set in motion a global debate. The Australian Act mandates that the design of tobacco products and their packaging be standardized so that only the brand name can be retained in a standard typeface, colour and size i.e. in plain white ... Read More
The Opponent, Polo/Lauren Company, L.P., filed an opposition in the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore against the trade mark application made by United States Polo Association in Class 09 on 17 October 2012 for a “double-polo-playing-horsemen-device” with the text “USPA” (“the Application Mark”), by relying inter alia on Section 7(6) ... Read More
There are presently 79 countries that are party to the Budapest Treaty (amended 26 September 1980) on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure. Accession to the Treaty is open to member states of the Paris Convention.
Deposition of biological materials (including microorganisms) is ... Read More
The deep-seated need for every brand owner to secure exclusive rights to use a trade mark does not discriminate when it comes to the source of the mark or identity of the owner. This is regardless of whether the owner runs a commercial enterprise or is a non-profit organization. The ... Read More