All posts tagged Intellectual Property

IMDA and AI Verify Foundation finalise Governance Framework for Generative AI and launch Project Moonshot

On 30 May 2024, the Infocomm Media Development Authority (“IMDA”) and AI Verify Foundation (“AVF”) finalised the Model AI Governance Framework for Generative AI in Singapore. On 31 May 2024, IMDA and AVF launched Project Moonshot, an open-source Large Language Models (“LLM”) evaluation toolkit to allow businesses to assess their AI applications in terms of performance and safety. This legal update outlines the key changes made to the finalised Model AI Governance Framework and provides an overview of Project Moonshot.

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Overview of the Cybersecurity (Amendment) Bill

This legal update provides an overview of the amendments brought by the Cybersecurity (Amendment) Bill of 7 May 2024 and sets out their impact on existing owners of computers or computer systems when the Bill comes into operation.

Legal Update: Cybersecurity (Amendment) Bill

Competition Law issues in Environmental Sustainability Collaborations in Singapore

This client note provides a brief framework to address three competition-law issues businesses should consider before entering environmental sustainability collaborations.

Competition Law Issues relating to Environmental Sustainability Collaborations

Pioneering AI Governance: A First Look into the Landmark EU AI Act

On 13 March 2024, the European Parliament approved the Artificial Intelligence Act, the world’s first comprehensive legislation specifically designed to regulate artificial intelligence systems. This legal note offers an overview of the obligations introduced by the Act and outlines the preparatory steps that Singapore-based businesses and organisations deploying AI systems in the European Union should consider. The Act is expected to commence in the second or third quarter of 2024.

Pioneering AI Governance: A First Look into the Landmark EU AI […]

Navigating Intellectual Property Valuation in Singapore

To provide a starting point for such an undertaking, our IP department has written a summary of the dominant approaches to IA/IP valuation.

Overview of PDPC’s Advisory Guidelines on the Use of Personal Data in AI Systems

On 1 March 2024, the Personal Data Protection Commission released a new set of advisory guidelines to provide businesses with, among others, more clarity on the use of personal data to train or develop artificial intelligence (“AI“) systems, as well as data protection best practices for businesses implementing AI.

We provide a summary and brief commentary of the Guidelines here:

Legal Update: An overview of the NEW PDPC Advisory Guidelines on the use of Personal Data in AI Systems

Successful Mediation of IP Dispute by Lee & Lee’s Mr. Zech Chan

Our Mr. Zech Chan (Partner, Intellectual Property) was recently invited by the World Intellectual Property Organization mediation center to mediate a trade marks dispute before the Singapore Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (“IPOS“).

Do you know what your employee is doing?

This case update summarizes, and provides key takeaways from, the case of Siemens Industry Software Inc v Inzign Pte Ltd [2023] SGHC 50 which examined when an employer may be held liable for copyright infringement by its employee.

Singapore – Trademark Protection for NFTs and Goods in the Metaverse

This client note highlights: (a) the key takeaways of the MetaBirkins case, Hermes Int’l v. Rothschild, (S.D.N.Y. Feb. 2, 2023); and (b) a recent circular published by the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore that provided timely guidance on the topic of registering trademarks for NFTs and metaverse-related goods and services.

Singapore – Trademark Protection for NFTs and Goods in the Metaverse

New Partners

The firm is pleased to announce the appointment of the following individuals as Partners of the Firm with effect from 1 January 2017:

Ms Amelia Ang (Litigation Department)
Mr Michael Lim (Real Estate & Property Department)
Mr Freddy Lim (Intellectual Property Department)
Ms Evelyn Ong (Banking Department)
Mr Kenny Goh (Corporate Department)
Ms Liane Lim (Corporate Department)

We take this opportunity to congratulate our Partners on their new appointments.