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Trade Marks Journal No. 013/2012
Page No. xii
NOTICES AND INFORMATION PERTAINING TO TRADE MARK APPLICATION AND
REGISTRATION PROCEDURES
A) GENERAL
Pre-2004 Circulars
Amendment to Specification
Presently, whenever the Registrar raises an objection to the specification of goods or
services, the agent representing the applicant would write to the Registrar with a proposed
amendment to the specification. Only if the Registrar agrees to the proposed amendment
will the agent file Form TM 27 to effect the amendment. The processing of such letters by
the Registrar slows down the registration process considerably.
To shorten the registration process, agents should file Form TM 27 to effect the amendment
straightaway instead of writing to the Registrar for her confirmation. If agents are relying on
precedents in support of the amendment, they should enclose such precedents with the
Form TM 27.
Certificates of Registration
The Trade Marks Act 1998 was revised on 30 December 1999 and accorded the same
chapter number as the repealed Trade Marks Act, that is, chapter 332. To facilitate the
Registry’s operations, for both applications made under the repealed Trade Marks Act and
applications made under the Trade Marks Act 1998 which have been accepted for
registration and are not subject to opposition proceedings, the Registrar will issue
certificates of registration which are headed:
Description of Device on Form TM 4
SINGAPORE
TRADE MARKS ACT
(CHAPTER 332)
CERTIFICATE ISSUED UNDER SECTION 15(5)
The purpose of the description of device on Form TM 4 is to assist the Registrar in
conducting a search for conflicting marks. The description need not be too detailed; a
general description is sufficient.
Disclaimers of Chinese Characters and Foreign Characters
A disclaimer relating to Chinese characters is published in the Journal as follows:
Registration of this mark shall give no right to the exclusive use of the Chinese character(s)
of which the hanyu pinyin is "_________".
For characters other than Chinese characters (for example, Japanese characters), the
disclaimer reads:
Registration of this mark shall give no right to the exclusive use of the ___________
character(s) of which the transliteration is "__________".