Intellectual Property (Amendment) Bill

Debated in Parliament on 1 Nov 2021.

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The Intellectual Property (Amendment) Bill aims to amend several existing IP Acts, including the Geographical Indications Act, Patents Act, and Trade Marks Act, to streamline registration processes and standardize provisions across these laws.
It proposes changes to the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore Act to direct fines and composition sums into the Consolidated Fund.
The Bill was presented by the Second Minister for Law and is scheduled for a second reading in January 2022.

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"to amend the Geographical Indications Act (2014), the Patents Act, the Plant Varieties Protection Act, the Registered Designs Act and the Trade Marks Act to facilitate certain changes to the processes for registration of intellectual property rights, standardise certain provisions across these Acts and make certain other amendments to these Acts, as well as to amend the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore Act for fines and composition sums to be paid into the Consolidated Fund",

presented by the Second Minister for Law (Mr Edwin Tong Chun Fai) read the First time; to be read a Second time at the first available Sitting of Parliament in January 2022, and to be printed.

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Intellectual Property (Amendment) Bill

Debated in Parliament on 1 Nov 2021.

Summary written by AI (learn more)

The Intellectual Property (Amendment) Bill aims to amend several existing IP Acts, including the Geographical Indications Act, Patents Act, and Trade Marks Act, to streamline registration processes and standardize provisions across these laws.
It proposes changes to the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore Act to direct fines and composition sums into the Consolidated Fund.
The Bill was presented by the Second Minister for Law and is scheduled for a second reading in January 2022.

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presented by the Second Minister for Law (Mr Edwin Tong Chun Fai) read the First time; to be read a Second time at the first available Sitting of Parliament in January 2022, and to be printed.

Intellectual Property (Amendment) Bill

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Intellectual Property (Amendment) Bill

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