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Assistant Director of Intellectual Property (Registration)

• overseeing practice and procedures of application and post-registration of trade marks, patents and designs;
  

• supervising and conducting trade mark registrability sessions, undertaking trade mark registrability, opposition and invalidation hearings, and handing down reasoned decisions;
  

• monitoring the approval of trade marks, patents and designs registrations;
  

• overseeing the provision of policy advice on trade marks, patents, designs and other registrable rights;
  

• monitoring the development of the draft Trade Mark Rules and completing the Trade Mark Manual in respect of the application and post-registration processes;
  

• commenting on draft intellectual property High Court Orders; planning and preparing draft law drafting instructions on possible amendments to Ordinances and subsidiary legislation on registrable intellectual property rights; and
  

• overseeing the preparation of internal guidelines and Circulars on registration and post-registration matters to the Law Society.
  
  

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