Organisation: Intellectual Property Office of Singapore

INTA chief representative officer for Asia-Pacific Walter Chia reflects on his first six months in office and his ambitions for the role going forward.

14 August 2023

Featured in Trademark register tracker

Foreign filings at the Chinese trademark office have more than doubled since the end of last year, Fovea IP data shows. 

12 June 2023

In an exclusive guest post, a recent decision from the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore is analysed, offering lessons for rights holders that could impact their IP approach in Singapore going forward.

22 May 2023

Featured in Trademark register tracker

According to WTR data analysis, Singapore enjoyed a filings uptick of 8.3% in the last trimester of 2022, as other major registers in the Asia-Pacific region saw decline. 

23 February 2023

In this guest analysis, lawyers at Gateway Law Corporation discuss how Baidu China successfully invalidated a number of Michael Gleissner’s registrations in Singapore.

20 February 2023

Featured in WTR Special Report Q4 2022: Building a better workplace: How to support diversity, equity and inclusion in the IP industry

05 January 2023

The decision provides an important clarification on the concept of ‘distinctiveness’ and its application in the inquiry regarding the similarity of the marks.

16 December 2022

Last year the owner of the TANGO mark in Class 30 successfully opposed an application to register OT TANGO in the same class. However, a second opposition against the figurative OT TANGO mark has now failed. 

03 November 2022

In an exclusive interview, the chief executive of the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore speaks about her IP journey and upcoming priorities for the office.

26 October 2022

Last week the IP Office of Singapore organised a series of events to celebrate its first in-person IP Week since the start of the pandemic. WTR was on the ground to bring you the key takeaways.

14 September 2022