Patents Act 1994 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 17 · Legal Proceedings
95. Privilege for communications with patent agents, etc.
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A communication with respect to any matter relating to patents —
between a person and any of the following:
a registered patent agent or a registered foreign patent agent;
a partnership entitled under Part 19 to describe itself as a firm of patent agents or as a firm of foreign patent agents; or
a body corporate entitled under Part 19 to describe itself as a patent agent or as a foreign patent agent; or
for the purpose of obtaining, or in response to a request for, information which a person is seeking for the purpose of instructing the person’s patent agent or a registered foreign patent agent,is privileged from disclosure in legal proceedings in Singapore in the same way as a communication between a person and the person’s solicitor or, as the case may be, a communication for the purpose of obtaining, or in response to a request for, information which a person seeks for the purpose of instructing the person’s solicitor.
In this section —
“legal proceedings” includes proceedings before the Registrar;
Registrar
“Registrar” means the Registrar of Patents and includes any Deputy Registrar of Patents holding office under this Act;
“patent” includes any patent or other protection for an invention granted in any country or jurisdiction other than Singapore.
patent
“patent” means a patent under this Act and includes a patent in force by virtue of section 117(3);