JIPLP: Special Issue: Singapore Designs Conference

Special Issue: Singapore Designs Conference

Many of our regular readers will have already noticed that our April issue is actually a Special Issue dedicated to the Singapore Design Law Reform Conference, which was held at NUS Law in September 2017. The Special Issue, which has been edited by David Stone, Elizabeth Siew-Kuan Ng and Graeme Dinwoodie, features several papers presented at the conference, offering "a spot check on design law reform efforts around the world – or perhaps more accurately a “state of play” report", as the guest editors write in their preface to the special issue.

This issue also honours the memory of the late Elizabeth Siew-Kuan Ng, Associate Professor at NUS Law and known to all of us as a passionate, enthusiastic and infinitely knowledgeable member of our IP community. Perhaps, the best way to remember her is through the emotional words of her colleagues and former students, which you can read here.

The Special Issue is available online and is free for everyone to access until Friday 18th May 2018.

Special Issue: Singapore Designs Conference Special Issue

EDITORIAL

Singapore Designs Conference Special Issue

David Stone; Elizabeth Siew-Kuan Ng; Graeme Dinwoodie

Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, Volume 13, Issue 4, 1 April 2018, Pages 251–252, https://doi.org/10.1093/jiplp/jpy026

CURRENT INTELLIGENCE

CJEU stays the course in assessing the impact of product specifications on the scope of protection of RCDs

Andrea Leonelli

Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, Volume 13, Issue 4, 1 April 2018, Pages 253–255, https://doi.org/10.1093/jiplp/jpy016

General Court upholds invalidity of sweet container design based on similarity to existing trade mark

Natasha Rao

Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, Volume 13, Issue 4, 1 April 2018, Pages 255–257, https://doi.org/10.1093/jiplp/jpy015

Advocate-General advises the CJEU on interpretation of the technical function exception to design protection

William Palmer

Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, Volume 13, Issue 4, 1 April 2018, Pages 257–259, https://doi.org/10.1093/jiplp/jpy005

Article 110 of the Design Regulation and protection for spare parts: CJEU proposes the liberalization of the market

Lucy Flascher

Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, Volume 13, Issue 4, 1 April 2018, Pages 260–262, https://doi.org/10.1093/jiplp/jpy013

ARTICLES

Designing through the veil of ignorance

Mark Lim; Sok Yee See Tho; Sandy Widjaja; Gabriel Ong

Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, Volume 13, Issue 4, 1 April 2018, Pages 263–272, https://doi.org/10.1093/jiplp/jpy012

Sets, modular systems and interconnections: Comparing Singapore law with EU legislation

David Llewelyn; T Prashant Reddy

Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, Volume 13, Issue 4, 1 April 2018, Pages 273–278, https://doi.org/10.1093/jiplp/jpy018

The protection of partial designs

Stanley Lai SC

Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, Volume 13, Issue 4, 1 April 2018, Pages 279–285, https://doi.org/10.1093/jiplp/jpy017

Protection of functional design in Singapore: Time for a utility design protection model?

Elizabeth Siew-Kuan Ng

Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, Volume 13, Issue 4, 1 April 2018, Pages 286–294, https://doi.org/10.1093/jiplp/jpy010

Designing for the future—2017 reforms to Singapore’s registered designs regime

Simon Seow; William Kwek

Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, Volume 13, Issue 4, 1 April 2018, Pages 295–302, https://doi.org/10.1093/jiplp/jpy014

The role of unregistered rights—a European perspective on design protection

Anna Tischner

Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, Volume 13, Issue 4, 1 April 2018, Pages 303–314, https://doi.org/10.1093/jiplp/jpy020

Unregistered design law: the good, the bad, and the ugly1

Sara Ashby; Catriona Smith

Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, Volume 13, Issue 4, 1 April 2018, Pages 315–324, https://doi.org/10.1093/jiplp/jpy021

CUDR and CRDR post-Brexit from a UK and EU perspective—Will all unregistered design rights become history?

Estelle Derclaye

Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, Volume 13, Issue 4, 1 April 2018, Pages 325–331, https://doi.org/10.1093/jiplp/jpy011

The ‘Legal Review on Industrial Design Protection in Europe’: A closer look

Henning Hartwig

Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, Volume 13, Issue 4, 1 April 2018, Pages 332–336, https://doi.org/10.1093/jiplp/jpy019

IP IN REVIEW

Diverse and novel perspectives on IP in the ASEAN region

Michael Handler

Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, Volume 13, Issue 4, 1 April 2018, Pages 337–338, https://doi.org/10.1093/jiplp/jpy022

When is a design not a design?

Catriona Smith

Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, Volume 13, Issue 4, 1 April 2018, Pages 339–340, https://doi.org/10.1093/jiplp/jpy025

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