🛡️ Protecting a geographical indication (GI) enables those who have the right to use the indication to take measures against others who use it without permission and benefit from its reputation (“free-riders”). A geographical indication’s reputation is a valuable, collective, and intangible

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📱 A new mobile app touted as the world’s first trademark registration mobile app will allow businesses and entrepreneurs to file their trademarks directly with the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS) on their mobile devices.

Named IPOS Go, the app has a “simplified user interface

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📑 ❝ Intellectual property, more than ever, is a line drawn around information, which asserts that despite having been set loose in the world – and having, inevitably, been created out of an individual’s relationship with the world – that information retains some connection with

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🗎 Expert evidence is generally used in patent oppositions before the Court, to provide evidence as to how the person skilled in the art would interpret the patent specification being opposed or that being enforced. Such evidence can be wholly determinative of the findings of validity and infringement

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📢 Public confidence in our IP system affects everyone. Misunderstanding enables a lack of respect for IP. In keeping the IP system vibrant, we must not lose sight of certain fundamental principles. If we want our competitors to respect our IP, we need to respect theirs. If we want other nations

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