Arbitrations Relating To Intellectual Property Rights: The Singapore Regime

Through this article, we will shed light upon settlement of IPR related disputes through arbitration under the Singapore legal regime, by peeking into Part IXA of the Singapore Arbitration Act and Part IIA of the International Arbitration Act, introduced by way of Intellectual Property (Dispute Resolution) Act 2019.

The resolution of IPR disputes through arbitration, under the Singapore legal regime was under uncertainty since decades.¹ The introduction of Part IXA to the Singapore Arbitration Act and Part IIA to the International ArbitrationAct, through the Intellectual Property (Dispute Resolution) Act2019², untangled the whole scenario of IP dispute resolution through arbitration.