Singapore Trade Marks (Amendment) Bill 2006

The Trade Marks (Amendment) Bill 2006 was introduced and read for the first time in Parliament on 8 November 2006. The Trade Marks Act (TMA) will be amended once the Bill is passed by Parliament. Briefly, the proposed amendments to the TMA are as follows:

• To provide for an application for registration of a trade mark to be divided into two or more separate applications for registration of the trade mark, so as to enable Singapore to give effect to Article 7 of the Singapore Treaty on the Law of Trademarks (New section 5A).
• To enable a person to make a single application for registration of a series of trade marks in relation to goods or services belonging to two or more different classes (Amendment to section 17(1)).