Singapore Intellectual Property Blog

Cantab IP invited colleagues attending INTA 2014 in Hong Kong to an informal pre-conference dinner at Yung Kee Restaurant.

Sections 46 and 73 govern joint ownership of Singapore patents and applications, subject to any agreement between the co-owners.

Although the Patents Rules allowed written submissions without amendments, the original online Form 13A implementation did not accommodate them properly.

The Plant Varieties Protection (Amendment) Bill proposed replacing the limited list of eligible plants with protection across all genera and species.

The new resource page brought together key materials for the amended Singapore Patents Act and Rules effective from 14 February 2014.