Cantab IP specialises in providing patent services in biotechnology, pharmaceuticals and associated areas in the life sciences. We have one of the very few qualified biotech patent attorneys in Singapore.

Our principal attorney, Dr Khoo Chong Yee, is a Registered Singapore Patent Agent and has over 13 years of experience as a biotech patent attorney in the United Kingdom and Europe. He has acted for a number of household names in the fields of food sciences, vaccines, pharmaceuticals as well as some of the most prestigious universities and research institutes in the United Kingdom. He has industry experience, having worked in-house as an acting patent attorney for a large diagnostics manufacturer.

Cantab IP handles the drafting and prosecution of inventions on a variety of fields including stem cells, oncology, breast cancer, drug screening, enzymes, food technology, vaccines, receptors, transcription factors, zinc fingers, transgenics and GMOs, crystallography, protein engineering, antibody design, genomics, bioinformatics, drug delivery, neurobiology and immunology, medical engineering (medtech), etc.

Our clients include local and foreign funding agencies, research institutes, academia, SMEs, biotech startups and large pharma.

One of our strengths is that we are able to draft patent specifications to meet the stringent requirements of these offices for inventions in the fields of biotechnology and pharmaceuticals.

Cantab IP also provides advice on the provisions relating to IP of the regulatory approval process under the Singapore Medicines Act. We can advise on Plant Variety Rights and Supplementary Protection Certificates.

Our biotech patent agent can provide freedom to operate and due diligence opinions on competitor patents. We undertake product clearance searches and opinions.

Cantab LLP • V Box 881846 • Singapore 919191

mail [at] cantab-ip [dot] com