Patents Act 1994 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 5 · Applications for Patents
27. Publication of application
Feedback & supportSubject to section 33, where an application has a date of filing, then, as soon as possible after the end of the prescribed period, the Registrar must, unless the application is withdrawn in the prescribed manner, treated as having been abandoned or refused before preparations for its publication have been completed by the Registry, publish it as filed (including not only the original claims but also any amendment of those claims and new claims subsisting immediately before the completion of those preparations).
date of filing
“date of filing”, in relation to —(a)an application for a patent made under this Act, means the date of filing that application by virtue of section 26; and(b)any other application, means the date which, under the law of the country where the application was made or in accordance with the terms of a treaty or convention to which that country is a party, is to be treated as the date of filing that application in that country or is equivalent to the date of filing an application in that country (whatever the outcome of the application);
The Registrar may, if so requested by the applicant, publish the application as mentioned in subsection (1) during the prescribed period, and in either event must publish the fact and date of its publication in the journal.
Registrar
“Registrar” means the Registrar of Patents and includes any Deputy Registrar of Patents holding office under this Act;
The Registrar may omit from the specification of a published application for a patent any matter —
published
“published” means made available to the public (whether in Singapore or elsewhere) and a document is taken to be published under any provision of this Act if it can be inspected as of right at any place in Singapore by members of the public, whether on payment of a fee or not, and “republished” is to be construed accordingly;
which in the Registrar’s opinion disparages any person in a way likely to damage the person; or
the publication or exploitation of which would in the Registrar’s opinion be generally expected to encourage offensive, immoral or anti-social behaviour.