Singapore Under Section 16 of the Singapore Patents Act, “an invention of a method of treatment of the human or animal body by surgery or therapy or of diagnosis practised on the human or animal body is not taken to be capable of industrial application.” However, first and second medical use claims are allowable in […]
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Singapore’s Intellectual Property Initiatives
With the aim of increasing the flow of innovation into the ASEAN region, the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS) has launched new initiatives with eight other intellectual property (IP) offices in the ASEAN region, namely the IP offices of Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. I. ASPEC-AIM One of the […]