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Trade Marks Journal No. 040/2010
Page No. xxxi
(d) treat the date of receipt of documents received by IPOS as the day on which the
documents are received by IPOS as long as the time of receipt is before the midnight
of the day.
It is to be noted that applicants must still comply with the requirement to provide an address
for service under rule 9. The electronic address of these persons, if they are using the
eCommunications Portal to send documents to and receive documents from the Registrar,
is not intended to be part of their address for service. However, service of documents by
electronic communication through the eCommunications Portal is intended to be valid
service notwithstanding that there is an address for service filed in accordance with rule 9.
The Trade Marks (International Registration) Rules have also been amended to permit the
use of one Form for multiple classes of goods or services for Forms for use in opposition,
namely Form TM 11 and Form TM 12.
A copy of the Trade Marks (Amendment) Rules 2008 and the Trade Marks (International
Registration) (Amendments) Rules 2008 are available for sale at SNP Corporation Ltd.
(http://www.snpcorp.com/webshop/).
Application for Renewal of Registration (Form TM 19) (Circular No. 18/2008, dated 12
December 2008)
With effect from 1 st January 2009, the Registrar will not be issuing renewal certificates
confirming that a mark has been renewed. This is applicable to all applications for renewal
of registration (Form TM 19) lodged on or after 1 st January 2009.
For applications for renewal made online, the renewal will be processed instantaneously
and an acknowledgement of the renewal showing the extended expiry date will be
displayed for printing. These acknowledgements of renewal will remain available for printing
for a period of one month from the renewal application date. In very limited circumstances,
such as where there are pending applications affecting the validity of the trade mark, instant
renewal will not be possible and the applicant will be notified that the acknowledgement of
renewal will be posted in due course.
Where the application for renewal is posted or submitted over the counter, the applicant will
not be receiving any acknowledgement from the Registry. The onus will be on the applicant
to check the expiry date of the mark at www.etrademarks.gov.sg within 2 weeks of
lodgement of the application for renewal of registration (From TM 19) to confirm that the
expiry date has been extended by the Registry. If the expiry date has not been extended,
applicants are advised to contact our Renewal Officer at 63302 707 immediately for
assistance.
This change in practice does not apply to Late Application for Renewal of Registration
(Form TM 24) and Application for Restoration and Renewal of Registration Removed from
the Register (Form TM 21).
To reflect the change in practice in Form TM 19, an information note has been incorporated
into the form. This revised form should be used from 1 st January 2009.
A copy of the revised Form TM 19 will be available for downloading by end of December
2008 at www.ipos.gov.sg.