In August 2026, Singapore’s Ministry of Law and the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS) launched a public consultation examining how Singapore’s patent system should respond to the growing use of artificial intelligence (AI) in innovation. The public consultation from 26 August 2026 to 22 October 2026, seeks feedback on how Singapore’s intellectual property framework can remain fit for purpose as AI becomes increasingly embedded in research, development and inventive activity. This article focuses on the patent issues
Importantly, the consultation does not revisit whether AI-related inventions are patentable. Instead, it looks at two newer questions
- how much human contribution is needed for inventorship when AI is part of the inventive process; and