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News, updates and announcement - 2024
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IAM Guide to Monetisation: Key Considerations for Building a Strategic Patent Licensing Programme (by Amica Law)
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Lexology In-Depth: Privacy, Data Protection and Cybersecurity – Singapore (by Anna Toh, Amica Law)
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IPOS Pilot Initiative – No EOT Fee for Search and/or Examination Requests in Singapore
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TikTok vs Tiki: Unpacking the "Well-Known to the Public at Large" Standard in Singapore
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Model AI Governance Framework for Generative A
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“CrossFeet” Finds Its Footing: IPOS Rejects CrossFit's Confusion Claims
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Extension of excluded days from 1 to 16 May 2024, due to migration of IPOS online filing platform
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Putting Your Best Foot Forward: Trade Mark Infringement And Keyword Advertising In Singapore
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SG IP FAST Pilot Programme extended till 31 December 2024
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Singapore PDPC Issues New Guidelines on Children's Personal Data
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New PDPC Guidelines on Use of Personal Data in AI Recommendation and Decision Systems
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“Prosecco” Upheld as a Registrable Geographical Indication
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Excluded days from 1 to 13 May 2024, due to migration of IPOS online filing platform
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Resisting the Rampage: Winning Tips from Monster Energy’s Losing Streak
News, updates and announcement - 2023
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A Whovian trade mark tussle through time
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PATENT ALERT : Unitary Patent System in Europe – What happens now?
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New Online Criminal Harms Bill to Fight Online Crime
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Coinbase Successfully Invalidates bitFlyer’s “Coinbase” Mark on Grounds of Bad Faith
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PATENT ALERT : Launch of new Collaborative Search and Examination between Singapore and Viet Nam patent offices
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Company Held Vicariously Liable for Employee’s Unauthorised Use of Infringing Software
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Battle of the Birds: Twitter Stops Singapore Tech Firm from Registering a Similar Bird Logo
News, updates and announcement - 2022
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IPOS Registrar’s Decision Overturned – Appeal to Correct Error in Patent Application Allowed
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Emotional distress - an actionable head of damage under the PDPA
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Request to Qualify the GI for “Parmigiano Reggiano”
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Knowledge & Experience of Ex-Employee is not Confidential Information
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I-Admin revisited: Modified Approach for Breach of Confidence Limited to Cases of Unauthorised Acquisition
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Recent Changes to IP Procedures
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IPOS Defers Increase in Official Fees to 26 May 2022
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Promotions – New Directors and Senior Legal Associate at Amica Law
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Registration of “Prosecco” as a GI Successfully Opposed on Appeal
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IPOS to Increase Official Fees from 29 April 2022
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Our Director, Winnie Tham, has been appointed as board member to IPOS
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Copyright Infringement - Locus Standi & Right of Communication
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The Limits of Implied Consent to Use in Non-Use Trade Mark Revocations
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Acquired Distinctiveness & Mark Similarity Assessment
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Virtual trade marks the Metaverse and IP rights
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Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT) and Intellectual Property Law
News, updates and announcement - 2021
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Dangers of Using a Common Name as a Trade Mark
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Australian Body of Grape Growers and Winemakers Fail to Prevent the Registration of “Prosecco” as a Geographical Indication
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The Right of Private Action under Singapore’s PDPA –When does this Right Arise?
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Implied Term of Mutual Trust and Confidence in Internal Employee Investigations
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The Singapore IP Strategy 2030: Singapore’s 10 - year national blueprint for IA/IP management
News, updates and announcement - 2020
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IP Mediation: Government Funding and Key Developments in Singapore
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Registered Designs - IPOS issues Guide on Registered Designs for Non-Physical Products
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Amendments to the Personal Data Protection Act and what it means for you?
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IP Adjudicator holds that there is confusing similarity and passing off, but dismisses well known mark and partial opposition arguments
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Breach of Contract, Breach of Fiduciary Duties and Passing Off
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Payment Services - Upcoming changes to the Payment Services Act
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Champagne vs ChamPengWine - A case of bad faith trade mark registration?
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Data Protection - Grabcar fined $10,000 for 4th data protection breach in 2 years
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Myanmar: New Trade Mark Registration System - Soft opening launch scheduled on 1 Oct 2020
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Lifting a Riddick Undertaking - When can documents disclosed under compulsion be used for purposes extraneous to civil proceedings?
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Expansion of Fast Track Programme to include Trade Mark and Design Applications
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Amendments to the GI Act take effect from 15 August 2020
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Practical considerations for relying on unregistered trade mark rights for trade mark oppositions (Florian Mack v Golden Cala Trading EST [2020] SGIPOS 5)
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Launch of PPH with Brazil's INPI & re-registration of Singapore Patents in Laos
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Launch of new SG Patent fast track programme
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Proposed amendments to the Personal Data Protection Act
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Successful invalidation of “Vagisan” trade marks by the proprietors of “VAGISIL” (Combe International v Dr August Wolff [2020] SGIPOS 3)
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Court of Appeal eases evidentiary burden on owners of confidential information with new modified test for breach of confidence (I-Admin (Singapore) Pte Ltd v Hong Ying Ting & ors [2020] SGCA 32)
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Signing legal documents remotely
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The impact of COVID-19 on contractual obligations
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Element Six Technologies Ltd succeeds in its patent infringement claim against Ila Technologies Pte Ltd (Element Six Technologies Ltd v IIa Technologies Pte Ltd [2020] SGHC 26)
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“ISETAN TARTAN” trade mark registration successfully opposed by Scotch Whisky Association - Use of a trade mark containing the word “Tartan” on whisky not from Scotland is liable to deceive the public (Scotch Whisky Association v Isetan Mitsukoshi Ltd [2019] SGHC 200)
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Ferrero fails in its attempt to register the shape of its Ferrero Rocher pralines in Singapore (In the Matter of a Trade Mark Application by Ferrero S.p.A. [2019] SGIPOS 19)
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A cyber squatter fails to enforce its contract on the grounds of public policy (3 Corporate Services Pte Ltd v Grabtaxi Holdings Pte. Ltd. [2020] SGHC 17)
News, updates and announcement - 2019
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The Legal 500 Comparative Guide 2019 - Singapore Chapter on IP by Amica Law
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Update – Data Protection – Notes on Protection Obligation
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Update – Trademarks – Myanmar: New Trade Mark Registration System
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Update – GI – More provisions of the GI Act take effect from 21 Nov 2019
- Update – Patents – Closure of Foreign Route in Singapore
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Update – Trademarks – Amendments to Malaysian Trade Mark Laws
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Update – FinTech – New initiative for payment firms to access specialised legal expertise
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Update – Visit by Intellectual Property Bureau of Guangzhou Development District (Sep 2019)
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Amica Law News Issue (January / July 2019)
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Update – GI - Registration of Geographical Indications (April 2019)
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Amica Law Announcement (Mar 2019)
News, updates and announcement - 2018
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Amica Law News Issue (January / June 2018)
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Patent Litigation Guide (May 2018) – Article by Jason Chan and Liza Lam (Reproduced from Practical Law with the permission of the publishers. For further information, visit www.practicallaw.com.)
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Amica Law Update – Patents Update (Apr 2018)
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Amica Law Announcement (Feb 2018)
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Amica Law Update – Patents Update (Jan 2018)
News, updates and announcement - 2017
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News, updates and announcement - 2009
News, updates and announcement - 2008
News, updates and announcement - 2007
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Feature - Patenting Business Methods in Singapore (Jan 2007)
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Amica News Issue 2 (Jan 2007)
News, updates and announcement - 2006
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