Trade marks and trade names – Opposition to Registration and Invalidation

This update covers recent Court decisions and featured articles, videos and developments relating to IP/IT dispute resolution in Singapore.

Intellectual Property — Trade marks and trade names

One of the concerns is that AI software will start assimilating material that would otherwise be copyrighted, and adversely impact the livelihood of existing authors and publishers.

This update gives a brief background and overview of the Singapore High Court decision in Tiger Pictures Entertainment Ltd v Encore Films Pte Ltd [2024] SGHC 39 which is the first case in Singapore invoking the “Simplified Process for Certain Intellectual Property Claims”, an optional “fast track” for intellectual property (“IP”) litigation to provide parties with a more affordable and expedited route to enforce their IP rights in Singapore.

This update looks at some of the key legal highlights over the past 3 months, across various practice areas including deals, restraint of trade, family law and intellectual property among others.

This article delves into the history and impact of Mickey Mouse on the development of copyright law, and considers whether Disney’s strategy of aggressively protecting the artistic depiction of Mickey Mouse would be feasible, given advancements in modern-day technology and innovation.

Part 1 discussed how Singapore copyright law is poised to tackle the issue of whether the use of copyright-protected works for machine learning and the works created from natural language commands are infringing copyright. In Part 2, the article evaluates how the computational data analysis exception and fair use provision in the Singapore Copyright Act 2021 may be relevant to the input and output scenarios.

This article will summarise the decision in Li v Liu (issued last year) and explore how and why the Beijing Internet Court reached a different conclusion from the US Copyright Office’s (USCO) decision in Zarya of the Dawn, when both cases were based on a similar set of facts. Finally, we will briefly explore the implications of the courts’ decisions on copyright in AI-generated content going forward.

Trade marks and trade names – Opposition to Registration

Intellectual Property — Copyright , Contract — Formation

This update covers recent Court decisions and featured articles relating to IP/IT dispute resolution in Singapore.

Trade marks and trade names – Opposition to Registration

Trade marks and trade names – Opposition to Registration

Trade marks and trade names – Opposition to Registration

Intellectual Property — Patents and inventions

Intellectual Property — Geographical indications

Intellectual Property — Copyright

Intellectual Property — Law of confidence

Intellectual Property — Trade marks and trade names