This Client Note provides an overview of the previous geographical indications regime, before highlighting the main features of the new Geographical Indications 2014 Act, and how it may impact businesses in Singapore.
The Geographical Indications Act 2014 – An Overview
This update discusses 2 recent Magistrate’s Court Judgments relating to self-defense as a defense to a civil claim for battery, and the defense of reasonableness under the Protection from Harassment Act.
Twin Sisters in Simei Green Condo Incident have their Civil Claims for Battery, Harassment and Breach of Confidence Dismissed
This Client Note highlights key aspects of the recently launched Data Protection Trust Mark scheme and explores why businesses in Singapore may be interested in this certification.
Singapore Data Protection Trust Mark
This update discusses 3 recent Singapore High Court decisions that relate to building and construction law – the decisions touch on the issues such as the effect when an extension of time clause is absent, estoppel under the Building & Construction Industry Security of Payment Act in relation to jurisdictional objections and whether a call on a performance bond can be made because of alleged claims arising in other projects (when the bond was issued for a different project).
Recent Cases […]
This Client Note summarises six of the proposals in the recent Singapore Copyright Review Report which may have an impact on your business.
Highlights of the Singapore Copyright Review Report
This case review examines the recent Court of Appeal case of Sunseap Group Pte Ltd & 2 Ors v Sun Electric Pte Ltd [2019] SGCA 4, which provided guidance as regards applications to revoke patents.
Court of Appeal Clarifies Patent Revocation Procedure
This case review examines the recent Court of Appeal case of Burberry Limited v Megastar Shipping Pte Ltd [2019] SGCA 01 in which the Court of Appeal held that a freight forwarder which facilitated the transhipment of counterfeit goods was not liable for trade mark infringement.
Trade Mark Infringement for Goods in Transit
This update covers the recent decision in Griffin Real Estate Investment Holdings Pte Ltd (in liquidation) v ERC Unicampus Pte Ltd [2018] SGHC 273. The High Court decided that where directors of the plaintiff company which had wrongfully caused it to extend an unauthorised loan to the defendant company, the defendant company, on the facts, incurred liability as a knowing recipient.
A Company’s Liability in Knowing Receipt for the Fiduciary Breaches of its Errant Directors
Lee & Lee’s latest article looks at the transitions that
a private company goes through when becoming a publicly traded company.
This article first appeared in the Q1/2019 Issue of the SID Directors Bulletin published by the Singapore Institute of Directors.
Transitioning From a Private To a Public Company
In BTY v BUA and other matters [2018] SGHC 213, the High Court decided that an arbitration clause in a Shareholders’ Agreement did not extend to disputes which pertain to the Articles of Association.
Arbitration Agreement in Shareholders’ Agreement does not extend to Disputes concerning Company’s Articles of Association.