For Enterprises

Administered by Enterprise Singapore:

• Companies seeking to upgrade their businesses, innovate or venture overseas can defray eligible costs with EDG.

• As of 25 October 2018, the EDG has replaced the Capability Development Grant (CDG) and Global Company Partnership (GCP) grant.

• Click here to find out more about the EDG.

Administered by the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS):

• Companies seeking for tax deductions/allowances on qualifying expenditure incurred on qualifying activities, including the registration of IP and/or the acquisition and licensing of IP rights.

• Click here to find out more about EIS.

Administered by Enterprise Singapore:

• Companies looking to market products and services overseas can defray up to 70% of third-party costs through the MRA grant.

• Click here to find out more about MRA.

The Revised Enhanced Mediation Promotion Scheme (REMPS) is a funding scheme by IPOS to encourage parties in IPOS proceedings to choose mediation as an alternative to a hearing.

Under REMPS, parties in a mediation case can receive reimbursement of mediation costs, up to S$8,000 (only Singapore IP rights) / S$12,000 (Singapore and foreign IP rights).

In addition, where both parties want to have their dispute mediated but one party does not wish to apply for funding, the sole party who applies for REMPS funding can claim up to S$1,000 per mediation case.

Read about mediation cases under REMPS and the Enhanced Mediation Promotion Scheme, and a successful mediation case [PDF, 263 KB] which benefitted from the Mediation Promotion Scheme.

Who can apply?

• You have an existing dispute before IPOS, and you and your counter-party agree to submit it to mediation in Singapore.

• You agree to

  • Allow a "shadow" mediator appointed by IPOS from the Young IP Mediator Initiative to observe the mediation

  • Disclose your lawyer/agent fees

  • Give feedback on your mediation experience

  • Agree to named publicity, excluding details of the settlement terms

  • Co-pay at least 20% of your mediation-related lawyer/agent fees (and mediation-related disbursements charged by your lawyer/agent)

• You and your counter-party participate in the actual mediation session from 1 April 2025 no later than 31 March 2028 or until the overall fund is drawn down, whichever is earlier.

How to apply?

• Submit an existing dispute before IPOS to mediation and inform IPOS of your intention to apply for funding under the REMPS, before mediation starts.

• Submit the application for reimbursement to IPOS within 1 month from the date of receipt issued by the mediation service provider or from the date of invoice and receipt (if any) issued by your lawyer/agent in relation to mediation-related agent fees, whichever is later.

• Submit the final outstanding information on agent fees incurred after mediation, within 1 month of the close of the IPOS proceedings by way of an updated application for reimbursement.

Related information

• Information sheet

• Frequently asked questions

• Application for reimbursement

• Mediation option for IPOS proceedings

Businesses in ASEAN can resolve their IP and technology disputes through the WIPO-ASEAN Mediation Programme, AMP+, from 23 January 2025 to 31 December 2025.

AMP+ offers funding for intellectual property (IP) and technology-related mediations administered by the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center's (WIPO Center) Office in Singapore. Find out more about AMP+.