As you may recall from this blog, IPOS issued a number of announcements of days that are to be treated as “excluded days” under the various intellectual property Acts.
IPOS initially declared a period of excluded days at the end of April and begining of May 2022 in conjunction with the launch of a new electronic filing system. This was to take into account any possible disruption during the transition between the retirement of the old IP2SG electronic filing system and the launch of “IPOS Digital Hub”, the next generation electronic online system.
Unfortunately, the disruption has been more extensive than anticipated. IPOS has acknowledged that “some users are facing issues with certain transactions”.
Given this, IPOS has declared a number of further periods of excluded days for business before the office.
This post attempts to summarise the current situation with regard to excluded days before IPOS in the first half of 2022.
The Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS) announced today that it is delaying the launch of IPOS Digital Hub and the implementation of the previously announced official fee increases.
Summary
IP2SG will be switched off on 25 May 2022 at 2359 hours Singapore time. The new electronic filing platform IPOS Digital Hub will start operating on 2 June 2022 at 1200 hrs Singapore time.
We expect that the period between 26 May 2022 and 5 June 2022 will be excluded days and any deadlines falling within this period may be met by Monday 6 June 2022.
The increases in official fees charged by IPOS for its services will take effect only on 26 May 2022.
UPDATED 28 April 2022: IPOS has announced a delay in the proposed launch of IPOS Digital Hub to 2 June 2022 (details below). New excluded days will be announced. Despite the delayed launch, the excluded days declared by IPOS and discussed in this post are not affected.
The Intellectual Property Office of Singapore has announced the launch of a new electronic filing system for patents, trade marks and designs, called IPOS Digital Hub.
On 29 April 2022, IPOS will retire its existing e-filing system (IP2SG), which has been in use since February 2014. The plan is for IPOS Digital Hub to go live on 4 May 2022.
On 25 May 2022, IPOS will retire its existing e-filing system (IP2SG), which has been in use since February 2014. The plan is for IPOS Digital Hub to go live on 2 June 2022 at 1200 hrs Singapore Time.
IPOS Digital Hub will then become the default electronic online system (EOS) for patent, trade mark and registered design filings in Singapore.
In order to implement these changes, IPOS has issued a Practice Direction setting out a number of excluded days.
TL;DR In combination with an intervening weekend and a couple of public holidays in Singapore falling within this period, the entire period from 29 April 2022 to 8 May 2022 is excluded for the purposes of transacting business with IPOS.
This guide tells you what you need to file a “domestic” or Singapore convention application, i.e., a patent filing initiated with IPOS in its own capacity. If desired, the Singapore patent application may claim convention priority under the Paris Convention.
We are pleased to announce that the Tweetup at the 2018 INTA Annual Meeting in Seattle will be held at the Phyllis Lamphere Gallery at the Washington State Convention Centre on Monday, 21 May 2018 from 1:30 pm onwards.
The Phyllis Lamphere Gallery is situated at level 2 of the Convention Centre. We’ll meet at the Gallery near Room 201 and the Juicy Café. The Tweetup is in a publicly accessible (“unbadged”) part of the Convention Centre.