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IPOS is aware of the global Microsoft outage with Outlook, which may affect email correspondence and customers’ ability to respond to deadlines.

IPOS has therefore issued Registries Practice Direction No. 1 of 2026 to declare 13 Nov 26 as an excluded day. Please refer to the practice direction for more information - https://go.gov.sg/registriespracticedirectionno1of2026 (opens in new tab)

Intellectual Property Office of Singapore
Updates

Circular: Revised launch date for IPOS Digital Hub, Decommission Date for IP2SG, effective date of legislative amendments and fee updates

22 April 2022

IPOS announced the revised launch date of the IPOS Digital Hub for 2 June 2022, while IP2SG will be decommissioned on 25 May 2022. Legislative amendments and fee updates will take effect on 26 May 2022.


Circular No. 3/2022

Registry of Geographical Indications
Registry of Plant Varieties Protection

Circular No. 4/2022

Registry of Patents
Registry of Designs

Circular No. 5/2022

Registry of Trade Marks



(A) IPOS Digital Hub Launch on 2 June 2022

Further to the Circular dated 11 March 2022, to allow IPOS to resolve technical issues and prevent any anticipated disruptions to users in using the new Electronic Online System (“EOS”), IPOS Digital Hub will launch on 2 June 2022, 1200hrs.

I. Adjustments to IP2SG Decommissioning Schedule

In this regard, the decommissioning schedule for the existing EOS, IP2SG, will be adjusted as follows:

  • IP2SG will decommission on 25 May 2022 (2359hrs), and EOS services will remain available until 25 May 2022 (2359hrs) through IP2SG.

  • EOS services will be unavailable from 26 May 2022 (0000hrs) to 2 June 2022 (1159hrs).

  • All draft correspondence and forms in your IP2SG draft folders and payment cart will be removed on 25 May 2022 (2359hrs) and they will not be retrievable in the new EOS. Please submit your drafts and make payment (as appropriate) via IP2SG before 25 May 2022 (2359hrs).


II. Excluded Days

Notwithstanding the revised dates above, the Registries Practice Direction (No. 1 of 2022) [PDF, 103 KB] (opens in new tab) issued on 11 April 2022, Practice Direction No. 1 of 2009 [PDF, 12 KB] (opens in new tab) and Practice Direction No. 1 of 2019 [PDF, 70 KB] (opens in new tab) will remain in effect.

This means that period of 29 April 2022 to 8 May 2022 (both dates inclusive) taking into account Saturdays, Sundays and Public Holidays falling within this period will continue to remain as a period of excluded days1.

Please refer to the Annex [PDF, 135 KB] (opens in new tab) for further information on the impact of excluded days to deadlines and priority claims for the period of 29 April 2022 to 8 May 2022.

To facilitate the launch of IPOS Digital Hub on 2 June 2022, the Registrar will be issuing another practice direction to declare the period of 26 May 2022 to 3 June 2022 (both dates inclusive) as excluded days in due course.


(B) Revised Date of Implementation of Legislative Amendments and Fee Updates

The legislative amendments and fee updates originally slated for implementation on 29 April 2022 will be effective on 26 May 2022 instead.

If you have any enquiries on this Circular, please send an email to ipos_enquiry@ipos.gov.sg.


1 Trade Marks Circular No. 3/2022 [PDF, 534 KB] (opens in new tab), Registered Designs Circular No. 2/2022 [PDF, 534 KB] (opens in new tab), Patents Circular No. 2/2022 [PDF, 534 KB] (opens in new tab), Plant Varieties Protection Circular No. 2/2022 [PDF, 534 KB] (opens in new tab) and Geographical Indications Circular No. 2/2022 [PDF, 534 KB] (opens in new tab) explain that the period of 29 April 2022 to 8 May 2022 (both dates inclusive), taking into account Saturdays, Sundays and Public Holidays falling within that period, will be a period of excluded days in relation to any deadline that falls within that period, such that that deadline will be automatically extended to the next following day which is not an excluded day i.e. 9 May 2022.