A recent change in Singapore has done away with the ability of an applicant to rely on a positive foreign examination result or the international preliminary report on patentability (IPRP) to request ...

In two related inter partes review proceedings, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board granted a petitioner’s motion to exclude the declaration of an inventor because the patent owner failed to make him ...

Jonas Lindsay of Marks & Clerk analyses the implications of changes to the examination system in Singapore and the imminent closure of the foreign route An important change to Singapore patent ...

In particular, under the old regime, applicants relying on the foreign grant route may have been subjected to certain pitfalls, such as double patenting issues and new matter. The new law, by ...