Do Your Home Work: Keeping Trade Secrets Safe While Working Remotely
This article was first published by IP Watchdog, Inc. on 26 March 2020 and is reproduced with the kind permission of the author. To view…
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Greater Protection for Well-known Trademarks
The newly minted Malaysian Trademarks Act 2019, enforced since 27 December 2019 gives a breath of fresh air for well-known trademark owners. Protection for this…
Singapore’s Accession to the Locarno Agreement
As part of Singapore’s continuous commitment to regularly review its intellectual property regimes to ensure that they are progressive and world-class, Singapore has signed and…
Fundamentals of Copyright Revisited – A Case Review
The law of copyright is based on the principle that anyone who, by his or her own skill and labour, creates an original work shall…
Federal Court breathes Life back into Dependent Claims
In a rare though welcome reversal, the Federal Court in Merck Sharp & Dohme & Anor v Hovid Berhad ([2019] 9 CLJ 1) has over-ruled its earlier…
Singapore after Sunseap: Impact on the Law and Practice
Earlier this year in a decision for Sunseap Group Pte Ltd & 2 Ors v Sun Electric Pte Ltd [2019] SGCA 4 (hereafter “Sunseap”)—a case…