First Cambodian Patent Granted

For very many years now, interested parties have been filing patent applications in Cambodia, but none of these patent applications have ever gone to grant until recently, when a first Cambodian patent was granted on the basis of the grant of a Singapore patent.

This promising development is one of the outcomes of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS) and the Ministry of Industry and Handicraft (MIH) of Cambodia that was endorsed earlier this year. Consequent to the signing of the MoU between IPOS and MIH, it is now possible for proprietors of Singapore patents also to obtain patent protection in Cambodia by means of a Singapore patent via a process that is somewhat similar to that found in some re-registration systems.