Singapore Intellectual Property Blog

IPOS Patent Examination Guidelines

14 February 2014

The revised IPOS guidelines gave applicants and practitioners a fuller account of how Singapore patent examiners would approach patentability.


A License to Take a Driving Test? Claim Relationships and Supplementary Examination under the Amended Singapore Patents Act

12 February 2014

The 2014 supplementary examination regime raised practical problems for applicants relying on allowed foreign claims, particularly in life sciences.

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Patents Act Amendments: Implementing Legislation Passed

12 February 2014

Singapore issued the notification and rules needed to bring its amended Patents Act and related patent agent provisions into force.

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R.I.P. ePatents...Say Hello to the IP2SG Electronic Patent Filing System

5 February 2014

IPOS retired ePatents and introduced IP2SG alongside the amended Patents Act, creating a short period when only paper filing was available.

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The Curious Case of the Not-So-Current Claims

4 February 2014

For Singapore PCT national phase applications, international-phase claim amendments may not appear in the specification available through IPOS.

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