President’s Report on Activities of AIPPI Singapore

March 2002 to January 2003

This report covers the activities of AIPPI Singapore since the last AGM on 20 March 2002.

Activities

2002 has been an active year for AIPPI Singapore. I am setting out the Calendar of Events and will deal with each item separately.

* Calendar of Events

March 2002 to January 2003

Quarterly Teas and Roundtables

AIPPI Singapore has continued with the Quarterly Teas and Roundtables for AIPPI Singapore members to come together.

4 were conducted in 2002: the details are:

Q167, 168 and 169 were all Questions on which AIPPI Singapore had submitted a paper on to AIPPI International and these were the subject of debate and resolutions to be taken at the ExCo Meeting in June in Lisbon.

Attendance was at an average of about 15 people, peaking at about 30 people during the Roundtable on 6 May 2002 when the Review of the Singapore Patent System was also being discussed.

The feedback from these Roundtables has been positive, as the discussion is usually very lively and interesting and broad-based viewpoints were obtained.

March 2002 to January 2003

PS Review 2002: The Review Of The Singapore Patents System in 2002

We were invited by IPOS for feedback on various issues raised regarding the reform of the Singapore Patents Systems. The roundtables was held on 6 May 2002, with many interesting ideas raised, which went far beyond the original scope of the queries being raised by IPOS.

These were captured in the suggestions submitted by AIPPI Singapore to IPOS in response to their invitation re PS Review 2002: The Review Of The Singapore Patents System in 2002 on 15 May 2002.

Our members then participated in 2 rounds of roundtables with IPOS on 5th and 7th June 2002.

17-21 June 2002 ExCo Meeting in Lisbon

AIPPI Singapore was represented by:

1. Regina Quek

2. Teresa O’Connor

3. Susanna Leong

Also represented AIPPI Singapore on Working Committee for Q168.

At the ExCo meeting Q167, 168 and 169 were debated and Resolutions were taken by AIPPI. These were sent to IPOS in Aug 2002.

The Singapore Group has submitted a paper for each of these questions.

We were also invited to nominate a Singapore member to be a member of the Working Committee Q 168 – Use of a mark “as a mark” as a legal requirement in respect of acquisition, maintenance and infringement of rights.

Susanna Leong agreed to and did serve on the Committee.

AIPPI Symposium 2002: “IP AS A BUILDING TOOL IN SINGAPORE AND ABROAD?”

On 16 Aug 2002 AIPPI Singapore held its annual symposium at the Pan Pacific Hotel entitled “IP AS A BUILDING TOOL IN SINGAPORE AND ABROAD?

Attendance was about 60 persons, which was at the level projected by the organizing committee and profits were in excess of $3000.

We are planning to make this an annual event, and will be holding it again this year at about the same time, i.e. Aug 2003.

AIPPI Singapore website

Our AIPPI Singapore website at www.aippi.org.sg went live at the end of last year thanks to the work of Max Ng, Ian Ng and Kevin Theseira, particualy Max who has also agreed to do the updating work for the site.

Dialogue Session On TM Matters

I am also pleased to report that AIPPI Singapore was invited to and participated in the Dialogue Session On TM Matters with IPOS.

The other participant was the IP Committee of Law Society. AIPPI Singapore was represented by:

1. Teresa O’Connor

2. Audrey Yap

3. Francine Tan

4. Adrian Ee

5. Max Ng

6. Winnie Tham

The issues raised include:

1. Amendments to provide for e-filing of Forms TM 27, TM 22

2. Proposed Amendments to Fourth Schedule : Scale of Costs

3. Proposed Amendments to Consent Provisions : rules 29, 31 and 77

4. Deadline for filing Notice of Opposition

5. Post-Grant Opposition instead of pre-grant opposition

6. Publication of marks within 6 months of application

7. Recordal of Licenses to be made voluntary instead of mandatory

8. Notification by IPOS of advertisement of application

9. Grace Period for Renewals without Statutory Declaration

A Report has been prepared by the representatives who attended the Dialogue and is uploaded on our website at www.aippi.org.sg.

March 2002 to January 2003

Activities for 2003: Scientific Work

As part of the ongoing scientific work of AIPPI, a further 3 Questions on topical issues of IP law have been released and national group reports are in the process of being prepared:

A series of Roundtables will be scheduled for 2003 on each of these topics. The first of the series commences on 11 Mar 2003 at the American Club and notices have been sent to all the members.

The topic will be Q175.

Symposium

We will also be organizing our symposium later this year, so look out for the notices. We look forward to maximum participation from all our members.

Membership

At the moment, membership stands at 13 corporate members and 39 individual members, totaling 52 members.

Optimal 2003

AIPPI International is supporting organization for Optimal 2003, which is organized by IPOS and JPO.
AIPPI International has therefore been allocated half a booth space as well as 2 seats at this Conference, which has been assigned to us by AIPPI International.
I shall come back on this once we have more details. I shall also be speaking at this event.

Regina Quek

President
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