The Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS) in its continuing effort to expand support to innovators, launched a new programme named the “SG Patent Fast Track” on 4 May 2020 to replace the existing patent acceleration programmes, namely FinTech Fast Track and Accelerated Initiative for Artificial Intelligence (“AI2”), which ceased on 25 April 2020 and […]
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Singapore: International Property Rights Index 2019
Singapore’s International Property Rights Index has risen and the country has achieved a 2nd ranking in the Asia and Oceania region and a 4th ranking worldwide for the year 2019. International Property Rights Index (IPRI) The IPRI is an index that measures the status of property rights globally. The IPRI score is indicative of the […]
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 […]
A Testament of Singapore’s FinTech Fast Track (FTFT) Initiative
The first patent using the FinTech Fast Track Initiative (“FTFT”) was recently granted by the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (“IPOS”) to Voyager Innovations Inc., a Philippines-based company that focuses on the delivery and development of digital technology services. The FTFT is a program designed to assist Financial Technology (“FinTech”) enterprises within the region to […]