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Administrative Requests

Learn more about the procedures for maintaining international trade mark registrations designated to Singapore, including changes, extensions, withdrawals, and transformations.

Last updated 26 March 2025

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Change details of agent and holder
Request for extension of time to respond to IPOS
Request for continued processing of international registration designated to Singapore
Requests to be presented to WIPO

The following requests may be presented to IPOS for an international registration designated to Singapore.

Change details of agent and holder

Apart from the scenarios listed in the table below, all other scenarios have to be effected via requests directly presented to WIPO.

Forms and scenarios changing agent and holder details in international registrations designated to Singapore

Form required:

Form CM1

Form CM2

Form CM4

For change of details in relation to:

  • Agent

  • Holder


  • Holder

Possible scenarios:

  • Appointment of an agent

  • Notice of intention to cease to act as an agent

  • Change of an agent

    • This includes the scenario where there is a change in legal entity of an agent (e.g. from ABC LLP to ABC Pte Ltd)

  • Change (not correction) in Singapore Address for Service

  • Correction of Singapore Address for Service

General
note(s)

Notice of intention to cease to act as an agent:

An agent who intends to cease to act on behalf of the principal for an application or registration, should serve a notice to the principal of:

  1. the intention to cease to act on their behalf;

  2. the need to furnish a new Singapore address for service; and

  3. the consequences of not furnishing it.

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Request for extension of time to respond to IPOS

Form CM5 should be filed with IPOS to request an extension of time to respond to a Provisional Refusal of Protection or examination report issued in respect of an international registration designated to Singapore.

The general notes on Extension of Time for Singapore Trade Marks also apply to international registrations designated to Singapore.

Request for continued processing of international registration designated to Singapore

When a holder fails to respond to IPOS’ Provisional Refusal of Protection or examination report within the stipulated deadline, the status of the international registration designated to Singapore or the objected goods/services (as the case may be) will be regarded as “Treated as Withdrawn (Continued Processing Possible)”.

When this happens, the holder has another two months to request via Form CM13 the continued processing of the international registration designated to Singapore or the objected goods/services (as the case may be). The request for continued processing must be accompanied by a response to IPOS’ Provisional Refusal of Protection or examination report.

What happens if no request for continued processing is filed within time:

  1. If all of the claimed goods/services are being objected, the entire international registration designated to Singapore will become treated as withdrawn and can no longer be protected.

  2. If some of the claimed goods/services are being objected, only the objected goods/services will be treated as withdrawn and can no longer be protected. The remaining non-objectionable goods/services in the international registration designated to Singapore will proceed to the next processing stage.

Note: For international registrations or the objectionable goods/services (as the case may be) whose statuses are regarded as “Treated as Withdrawn (Reinstatable)” before 26 May 2022, they can be reinstated via Form CM13 within a period of six months. The request for reinstatement must be accompanied by a response to the Provisional Refusal of Protection or examination report.

Requests to be presented to WIPO

Apart from the requests to be presented to IPOS listed above, all other requests for recordals in relation to international registrations designating Singapore filed under the Madrid Protocol, should be presented to WIPO.

Please refer to WIPO’s website on How to Manage Your International Registration for the possible IR transactions, as well as the Forms Required for the International Registration of a Mark.