Axis E-magazine July August 2015

Axis Intellectual Capital Celebrates Together!

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The things that you didn’t know about

ASPEC

General Information -

Singapore -

Thailand -

Malaysia -

Vietnam -

Axis Perspective on GPPH

Key Facts -

Benefits -

Required Documents -

Eligibility & Procedure -

Get your plant varieties protection in

Singapore

The 5 Singapore tech inventions that you

didn’t know

Creative Sound blaster sound card -

Trek Technology Thumb Drive -

Match.com -

M Tech Fever Scan S3000 –

The X-Mini capsule speakers -

Contents

Intellectual Capital Consulting | Patents | Trade Marks | Registered Designs

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Licensing and Transactions | Technology Transfer

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The things that you didn’t know

about ASPEC

For frequent patent filers, there are always

major concerns regarding cost and time

incurred from filing to grant of a lodged

application. The lengthy patent prosecution

period in relation to the escalating numbers

of filed applications and aggregating

backlogs of unexamined applications is a

significant disincentive to patent filings in a

given jurisdiction. Different bilateral or

multilateral Patent Prosecution Highways

(PPH) have long been adopted to at least

resolve issues associated with prolonged

patent prosecution period. To address like

problems in the ASEAN region, the ASEAN

Patent Examination Co-operation (ASPEC) was

initiated on 15th June 2009.

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To date, there are nine (9) participating IP

Offices in ASPEC, including Brunei

Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR,

Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand

and Vietnam. The ASPEC program allows

one participating state, a 2nd office, to

utilize search and examination results from

another participating state, a 1st office, as

reference to establish its own examination

report. However, it is important to note that

conclusion or finding of the 1st office is not

mandatorily adopted by the 2nd office, but

merely serves as additional reference to

generate search and examination report of

better quality.

“ASPEC, An Alternative To Expedite Patent Applications In ASEAN And The Theoretical Rush Of First Examination Report.”



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As unremarkable as it seems in furnishing

only non-obligatory result to other

contracting parties, ASPEC does offer its

own unique way, out of turn, to expedite

overall examination process of the

corresponding applications lodged to other

participating states. Particularly,

corresponding application in the 2nd office

will be advanced out of turn or directly

subjected to examination process when an

ASPEC request is filed at the 2nd office

together with the 1st examination report in

accordance with other prerequisites set

forth in the 2nd office. The accelerated

process or out of turn feature will last until

grant of the corresponding application in


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- one or more of 2nd offices. Knowing that

the out of turn feature of ASPEC can almost

initiate immediate prosecution of the

corresponding application, the 1st

examination report can be a tool of great

value to kick-start prosecution of the

corresponding applications, which are likely

to get stuck in the examination queue, in

the rest of the participating states. It will be

beneficial for a patent filer in the ASEAN

region to strategize corresponding

applications in a fashion to acquire the 1st

examination report from the 1st office

within the shortest duration possible.

SINGAPORE

For a Singapore patent application,applicant can initiate local search andexamination right after submission ofthe patent application. Turnaroundtime for the 1stexamination report isapproximately 2 months, or exactly 57days according to recent statistical datapublished by the Intellectual PropertyOffice of Singapore (IPOS) in 2014. Ourpast experience with IPOS finds thatIPOS substantially holds up with theclaimed turnaround period aspublished. Considering that additionaltime may be required to ascertainother formalities and file docket othermatters relating to the filing before theactual examination starts, IPOS canpotentially generate the very 1stexamination report applicable forASPEC as fast as three (3) monthsfrom filing date.



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MALAYSIA

Notwithstanding that request for normal

substantive examination can be submitted

within eighteen (18)months from priority or

filing date of a patent application, patent

examination in Malaysia can only be

accelerated by way of expedited

examination after eighteen (18) months or

at the beginning of the 19th month from

the priority date or filing date. Assuming

that the application undergoes expedited

examination without substantial problems

about patentability, a clear examination

report containing allowable subject matter

will be issued around seven (7) weeks after

the request of expedited examination .

Therefore, it is only possible to obtain a

clear 1st examination report from the

Malaysian Intellectual Property Office

(MYIPO) by the end of the 20th month from

filing date.


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VIETNAM

National Office of Intellectual Property of

Vietnam (NOIP) will take around twelve (12)

months to produce the 1st examination

report upon publication of a patent

application with request of examination

lodged before the publication, or receipt of

the request of examination after patent

publication. Assuming that the request of

examination were submitted prior to

normal publication, which happens on the

19th month from the earliest priority date,

one should expect to receive the 1st

examination report from NOIP by 31st

month from the priority date under normal

circumstances. In any case, NOIP provides

alternative option for applicant to request

earlier publication and the earlier

publication can occur as early as 2nd

month from the request received. In such a

scenario, the 1st examination report from

NOIP can reach the applicant as early as

14th month from the filing date, assuming

filing of the application, request for early

publication and request of examination

were submitted to NOIP at or almost at the

same time.

It is important to note that the above

estimation on generation of the ASPEC-

applicable 1st examination report from the

respective IP offices are calculated based

on published information, regulation

and/or Axis’ past experience with the given

IP office. The estimated timeline can serve

as a general reference to gauge arrival of

the 1st examination report. It allows an IP

filer or practitioner, with multiple

corresponding patent applications in

ASEAN region, to take advantage on the

“out of turn” feature offered in ASPEC to

expedite the prosecution process with

minimal possible cost.

THAILAND

According to Thailand’s patent law,

substantive examination can only be

requested within five (5) years after local

publication by Thailand’s Department of

Intellectual Property (DIP). In recent years,

DIP has ramped up the publication rate

from averagely two (2) years to around six

(6) to eight (8) months from local filing date

of a Thai application. Based on previous

dealings with DIP, the turnaround duration

of the 1st examination report from DIP is

close to two (2) years from the date lodging

the request for substantive examination.

Therefore, the 1st examination report

usable for ASPEC can be obtained from DIP

around the 30th month from local filing

date of the Thai application.

Lew Cheong YeeAxis Intellectual Capital Singapore Patent AttorneyEmail: [email protected]

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Key Facts

GPPH pilot commenced in January 2014

Participating Offices (19)

Australia| Austria | Canada | China | Denmark

Germany | Finland | Hungary | Iceland | Israel

Japan | Korea | Mexico | Nordic | Norway

Portugal | Russia | Singapore | Spain | Sweden

UK | US

*OLE: Office of Later Examination

*OEE: Office of Earlier Examination

Required Documents

a. English translation where applicable

b. A copy of all office actions of the OEE

application;

c. A copy of the allowable / patentable claims

in the OEE application; and

d. A claims correspondence table showing the

relatedness of the claims.

Benefits

a. Expedited prosecution process

b. Improved quality of search and examination

report

c. Time savings

d. Economical

Eligibility & Procedure

a. There are corresponding applications filed with

the OEE and the other GPPH/PPH participating

offices.

b. The corresponding applications are linked by a

priority claim, i.e. have the same earliest date

(whether this is a priority date or a filing date).

c. The OEE application forms the basis of the

GPPH/PPH request for accelerating examination

of the OLE application.

d. The OEE application has at least one claim that is

determined to be allowable/patentable by the

OEE.

e. All the claims in the OLE application are related

to at least one of the allowable/patentable claims

in the OEE application.

f. GPPH/PPH Request can be filed at the time of or

after the request for examination of the OLE

application, as long as examination has not

begun for the OLE application.

For more information about GPPH,

please contact

Axis Hub <[email protected]>

A Program Designed for

Accelerated Patent Prosecution “”


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July / August 2015

Get your plant

varieties

protection in

Singapore



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July / August 2015

The 5 Singapore tech inventions that you didn’t

know!



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July / August 2015

Creative Soundblaster sound card

When Creative introduced Creative Sound

Blaster sound card in 1989, there wasn’t

always sound on all PC computers. The

Sound Blaster sound card was a hit to every

geek and gamer who each wanted to be no

less than cool. It became the de facto

standard for consumer audio on the IBM PC

compatible system platform, until Microsoft

developed audio functions to be integrated

with their motherboard (which means you

didn't need an extra sound card to have

audio). Despite this, Creative is still the

leading company for PC audio, coming up

with bigger and better devices for sound.

The Creative Sound Blaster 2.0, circa 1990s (image from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KL_Creative_Labs_Soundblaster_2.0_CT1350B.jpg" target="_blank">Konstantin Lanzet/Wikimedia</a>)

The original Trek Thumb drive

Trek Technology Thumb Drive

Trek Technology Thumb Drive aka. Thumb

Drive, aka. flash drive, aka. USB memory

stick, aka. memory key, aka. that little thing

on your keychain that stores like a gazillion

digital files. Everyone is pretty much well

aware that this device single-handedly

wiped out the floppy drives and disks era.

At the end of 2000, Trek Technology

partnered with 'Big Blue' IBM to sell the first

USB flash drives commercially. Did you

know that the original Thumb Drive had a

storage capacity of 8 MB, more than five

times the capacity of the then-common

floppy disks? This seems laughable now,

but at that time this was mind-boggling in

its scale. Can you even imagine life today

without the Thumb Drive?

Match.com

Have you heard of Match.com? It’s that

online dating company which reportedly

has more than 20 million members (of

which 1.35 million are subscribers), websites

serving 37 countries in more than 12

different languages, and made nearly

US$350 million in revenue in 2008. What

you probably did not know is that a

Singapore 'technopreneur' by the name of

Peng Tsin Ong played an instrumental role

in creating this massively popular dating

site in 1993. He started working on

Match.com with Gary Kremen to help

architect its initial system, building up the

Internet portal until it went live in 1995. The

rest, as they say, is matchmaking history.



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MTech FeverScan S3000

Remember that SARS breakout in 2002-

2003, when airports all around the world

had to have fever scanners to control the

spread of SARS? That particular fever

scanner is called MTech FeverScan S3000. It

was invented by a Singapore company

which specialized in military-grade scanners

and imaging thoses systems called MTech

Imaging. The invention was used to detect

passengers running a fever (one of the first

signs of SARS infection) with the use of

precise thermal imaging; and mind you, it is

still being used today to control the spread

of other epidemics.

Fever scanning at Changi Airport (image from <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Singapore_Changi_Airport_Thermal_Scanning.JPG" target="_blank">Jnpet/Wikimedia</a>)

The original Trek Thumb drive

X-Mini capsule speakers

They say that “imitation is the sincerest

form of flattery”. When we see an X-mini

Capsule Speaker, we can say just that. It all

started when a little Singapore setup called

XMI Pte Ltd created a pocket-sized ball

speaker with a patented "pop-up" vacuum

design that acted like a mini sub-woofer,

and produces a level of bass and volume

that is mind (and ear) blowing considering

its itsy-bitsy size. OEM manufacturers all

over the world shamelessly rip off the X-

mini Capsule Speaker. It sure is a sign that

something's really good when OEM pirates

start to “pop-up” out of nowhere.

This article and images were originally created By Larry Loh 22 March, 2010, posted on CNN

http://travel.cnn.com/singapore/shop/5-best-tech-inventions-singapore-rocked-our-world-423291

The content of this article has been partially edited by Axis Intellectual Capital

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