We are pleased to announce that the Tweetup at the 2018 INTA Annual Meeting in Seattle will be held at the Phyllis Lamphere Gallery at the Washington State Convention Centre on Monday, 21 May 2018 from 1:30 pm onwards. The Phyllis Lamphere Gallery is situated at level 2 of the Convention Centre. We’ll meet at the Gallery near Room 201 and the Juicy Café. The Tweetup is in a publicly accessible (“unbadged”) part of the Convention Centre. Please feel free to wander by from 1:30 pm onwards. People tend to come and go and we’ll be there for a couple of hours at least. The Juicy Café is family owne ..read more

One of the nicest things about the INTA Annual Meeting is being able to meet friends and colleagues at smallish get-togethers, where there is an opportunity to speak properly to another person and to find out what they think about the world. If you like this sort of thing, please come along to the INTA Tweetup this year. Details of the event are as follow: Date: 21 May 2018 (Monday) Time: from 1:30 pm to 3 pm or so Venue: to be announced Join the Tweetup What is the INTA Tweetup? The INTA Tweetup is a small, informal gathering where you get to meet and chat to fellow social media users ..read more

Chong-Yee Khoo and Irene Low of Cantab IP will be attending the 140th Annual Meeting of the International Trademark Association (INTA) in Seattle, USA. We expect the INTA conference to be the usual heady mix of thought-provoking sessions, rushing around to meet colleagues, clients and associates and going to one or two INTA 2018 receptions. The INTA Annual Meeting will be held this year in Seattle, Washington between 19 and 23 May 2018. The venue of the conference is the Washington State Convention Center, 705 Pike Street, Seattle, WA 98101, USA. We plan to hold the INTA Tweetup again in Seat ..read more

Dr Chong-Yee Khoo has once again been recognised by Intellectual Asset Management (IAM), one of the world’s leading IP publications. The IAM Patent 1000 - The World’s Leading Patent Professionals is a unique guide, published annually, that identifies the top patent professionals in key jurisdictions around the globe. Chong-Yee has been listed in IAM Patent 1000 2017 as a recommended individual in Singapore. His citation reads: “A Cambridge natural sciences scholar with an extensive research background, Chong-Yee Khoo of Cantab IP is one of the most eminent life sciences experts in Singapore ..read more

We are pleased to announce that the Tweetup at the 2017 INTA Annual Meeting in Barcelona will be held at at Farggi Cafe in the Grand Via 2 shopping mall on Monday, 22 May 2017 from 1:30 pm onwards. The Farggi Cafe is situated in the Centro Comercial Gran Via 2, which is a shopping mall just a few minutes walk from the Hall 8 of the Fira Grand Via Convention Centre. Please feel free to wander by from 1:30 pm onwards. People tend to come and go and we’ll be there for a couple of hours at least. Farggi Cafe serves a variety of food, including coffee, tea, sorbets, ice creams, gelati, cakes, sandw ..read more

One of the nicest things about the INTA Annual Meeting is being able to meet friends and colleagues at smallish get-togethers, where there is an opportunity to speak properly to another person and to find out what they think about the world. If you like this sort of thing, please come along to the INTA Tweetup this year. Details of the event are as follow: Date: 22 May 2017 (Monday) Time: from 1:30 pm to 3 pm or so Venue: Farggi Cafe at Centro Commercial Gran Via 2 (Map and Directions) Join the Tweetup What is the INTA Tweetup? The INTA Tweetup is a small, informal gathering where you ..read more

Chong-Yee Khoo and Irene Low of Cantab IP will be attending the 139th Annual Meeting of the International Trademark Association (INTA) in Barcelona, Spain. The INTA Annual Meeting will be held in Barcelona, Spain between 20 and 24 May 2017. The venue of the conference is the Fira Gran Via Convention Center. For the first time, the organisers have made provision for the large number of patent professionals who have been turning up to the conference in recent years. As patent specialists, we welcome this development. As usual, the INTA conference will be a heady mix of thought-provoking session ..read more

The Intellectual Property Office of Singapore has announced a major revision to the official fees for patent and trade mark filings, which are effective 1 April 2017. Summary of Changes For patents, there are some reductions in the official fees during prosecution. The fee for requesting examination stays the same, but there is a new excess claims fee for claims over 20 in number. At grant, the fee free threshold for assessing claims fees has been reduced to 20, and the excess claims fee for claims over this rises to S$40 per claim. Renewal fees for the latter stages of a patent’s life have be ..read more

Updated 7 November 2016 with revised programme and content of talk. The programme for the CIPA Life Sciences Conference 2016 (The Grand, Brighton, 14 and 15 November 2016) has been announced: UPC Post Brexit from a Big Pharma Perspective Ewan Nettleton (Novartis) Coordination of Parallel UK & US Proceedings Liz Cohen (Bristows) View on Brexit from the US Seth Levy (Nixon Peabody) Regulatory Data Protection Duncan Curley (Innovate Legal) SPCs Tony Rollins Entry to the Market – A Generics Perspective Robert Fitt (Mylan) Dating: How to know they are the one for you: Valuing your Ideal Partne ..read more

The CIPA Life Sciences Conference is described as “the UK’s premier annual educational and networking event for patent and IP professionals active in the pharma, medical technology and biotechnology sectors”. The conference is organised by the Life Sciences Committee of the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys, UK. I am pleased and honoured to have been invited to speak at the CIPA Life Sciences Conference in November this year. My talk will focus on updates on recent developments in patent law and practice in South East Asia as they relate to the biotech, life sciences and pharma fields. T ..read more