Seminar Protecting Innovation through Patents (April 2019)
Join us for EC Seminar ! Does the thought of your competitors stealing your innovations keep you up all night? Patent protection may be the answer you are seeking. Find out more about patents at our seminar! Topics that will be presented: 1. Introduction to patents and other forms of intellectual property rights 2. […]
The largest data breach in Singapore to date: Singapore Health Services Pte. Ltd. & Ors. [2019] SGPDPC 3
In what was described as “the worst breach of personal data in Singapore’s history”, the personal data of 1,495,364 patients were accessed and copied from Singapore Health Services Pte Ltd.’s (“SingHealth”) electronic medical record database (“SCM Database”) and exfiltrated to overseas servers. Based on forensic investigations, the attacker first infected a user’s workstation through what […]
Familiarise for a Family to Arise: The Importance of Indicating Trade Origin to Consumers
Familiarise for a Family to Arise: The Importance of Indicating Trade Origin to Consumers It is common for businesses to own multiple trade marks each bearing a common characteristic or element (eg. McDonald’s “MC-Nuggets”, “MC-Chicken” and “MC-Café”). However, this does not necessarily mean that consumers are able to easily identify these marks as deriving from […]
Apple fails to oppose Swatch’s applications of its “Tick Different” marks
Apple fails to oppose Swatch’s applications of its “Tick Different” marks Swatch AG and Apple Inc., two giants in their respective fields, have recently locked horns in Singapore in a trade mark battle. Swatch had earlier applied to register its “Tick Different” marks. However, Apple was of the view that “Tick Different” was similar to […]
Seminar Protecting Innovation through Patents
Join us for EC Seminar ! Does the thought of your competitors stealing your innovations keep you up all night? Patent protection may be the answer you are seeking. Find out more about patents at our seminar! Topics that will be presented: 1. Introduction to patents and other forms of intellectual property rights 2. […]
Constraint in Supplementary International Search
As an applicant of PCT international patent application in Singapore, you may have been told that there is a process known as supplementary international search (SIS) which can provide you with greater visibility of the prior arts that may be used by an examiner to object to your patent application. In this short article, we […]
Locking PDPA’s Floodgates: My Digital Lock Pte. Ltd. [2018] SGPDPC 3
In My Digital Lock Pte. Ltd. [2018] SGPDPC 3, the Complainant brought a complaint under the Personal Data Protection Act 2012 (“PDPA”) against a digital lock seller (the “Organisation”) for disclosing the Complainant’s personal data through a police report which was posted on Facebook. The Complainant was identified in the police report as allegedly harassing […]
Counterfeit Goods: Potential liability of a Freight Forwarder
Facts In the recent case of Louis Vuitton Malletier v Megastar Shipping Pte Ltd and other suits [2017] SGHC 305, the Singapore High Court considered whether a freight forwarder who was involved in the transhipment of counterfeit goods was liable for trade mark infringement. Shipments of two containers loaded with counterfeit goods had been intercepted […]
Upcoming Changes to Myanmar’s Trade Mark Law
Over the past year, Intellectual Property (IP) practitioners around the world have been eagerly anticipating the implementation of Myanmar’s new IP regime. On 15 February 2018, four IP laws – the Trade Mark Law, Patent Law, Industrial Design Law and Copyright Law were passed by the Upper House of the Myanmar Parliament. They will now […]
UNDERSTANDING PARALLEL IMPORTS AND the “EXHAUSTION OF RIGHTS” DEFENCE – AN INTRODUCTION TO THE CASE OF SAMSONITE IP HOLDINGS SARL V AN SHENG TRADING PTE LTD [2017] SGHC 18 [Part 1 of 3]
Parallel importation – defined perfectly by George Wei J in his latest judgment of Samsonite IP Holdings Sarl v An Sheng Trading Pte Ltd [2017] SGHC 18 – is “broadly concerned with situations where a third party, without the consent of the proprietor of an intellectual property right, imports the proprietor’s goods that are legitimately […]