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Intellectual Property Office of Singapore

Maintain your International Registration designated to Singapore

Learn about procedures for maintaining and modifying international trade mark registrations designated to Singapore.

Last updated 26 March 2025

Requests to be presented to IPOS

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

Administrative requests

Read more about administrative requests, and find out more about the items in the list below.

  • Change details of agent and holder

  • Request for extension of time to respond to IPOS

  • Request for continued processing of tnternational registration designated to Singapore

Registration management

Read more about registration management, and find out more about the items in the list below.

  • Withdraw your international registration designated to Singapore

  • Register, amend or terminate licence

  • Transform an international registration into a national application

  • Replacement of National Registrations by Protected International Trade Marks (Singapore)

International registration modifications

Read more about international registration modification, and find out more about the items in the list below.

  • Division of an international registration

  • Merger of an international registration

Legal procedures

Read more about legal procedures, and find out more about the items in the list below.

  • File a statutory declaration

  • File a letter of consent

  • File or amend regulations governing the use of a collective mark or certification mark

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 or the possible IR transactions, as well as the Forms Required for the International Registration of a Mark.