Singapore Intellectual Property Blog

IPOS introduced a paid route for accelerating specified Singapore patent search and examination requests against a background of examination delays.

The revisions increase several trade mark filing, amendment and renewal fees, change design amendment fees and reduce one plant variety fee.

The IPOS revisions reduce the number of fee-free claims, change when excess claims fees are assessed and increase several later-stage fees.

This annex quantifies the Singapore patent official fee increases announced in July 2025 and should be read with the main analysis.

The calculation depends on when examination was requested and how the number of claims changes during prosecution, particularly from September 2025.