The Intellectual Property Office of Singapore will implement major revisions to the official fees payable for patents, trade marks, registered designs and plant varieties matters at the Singapore IP office from Q3 2025. This was announced in IPOS Circular No. 3/2025 of 21 July 2025.
The changes are generally effective 1 September 2025, with some changes taking effect on 1 April 2026.
This post deals with the impact on trade marks and trade mark applications, registered designs and registered designs applications as well as plant variety protection applications. For patents, please see the blog post “IPOS Official Fee Increases (Patents) 2025”.
Please contact us if you would like more information on the fee changes, or if you have any questions.
The Intellectual Property Office of Singapore will implement major revisions to the official fees payable for patents, trade marks, registered designs and plant varieties matters at the Singapore IP office from Q3 2025. This was announced in IPOS Circular No. 3/2025 of 21 July 2025.
The changes are generally effective 1 September 2025, with some changes taking effect on 1 April 2026.
Given the complexity of the excess claims fees rules for Singapore patent applications, you might be asking yourself “How do I determine if an excess claims fee is payable on a patent application?” “What is the excess claims fee for a patent application when responding to a Written Opinion” and “What is the excess claims fee for a patent application on grant?”.
We set out a number of rules which may be used to calculate whether or not excess claims fees are payable when requesting examination or combined search and examination, when responding to a Written Opinion (where applicable) and when paying the grant fee.
I was invited to give a talk recently on patentable subject matter and exclusions from patentability in Singapore.
The talk was presented at a webinar on 8 April 2024, hosted jointly by the Association of Singapore Patent Attorneys (ASPA), CNCPI - Compagnie Nationale des Conseils en Propriété Industrielle (French IP Attorney Association) and the Institute of Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys of Australia (IPTA).