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PAST EVENTS


29 May 2008:
Sixth Annual General Meeting.

20 June 2007: Fifth Annual General Meeting.

19 May 2006: Fourth Annual General Meeting.

20-30 September 2005: Series of tutorials conducted by ASPA for Patent Agent Qualifying Examinations.

27 May 2005: Third Annual General Meeting.

21-23 March 2005: "JPAA IP Practitioners Seminar" at the Suntec Convention Centre, Singapore - organized and sponsored by the Japan Patent Attorneys Association ("JPAA"), co-sponsored by the Asia-Pacific Industrial Property Center ("APIC") of Japan Institute of Innovation and Invention ("JIII"), and supported by ASPA and the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore ("IPOS").

19 July 2004:  Talk by Mr. Keith Callinan on changes to the Singapore Patents Act (Cap 221) at the premises of M/s Allen & Gledhill.

21 May 2004:  Second ASPA Annual General Meeting

21 May 2004:  Talk by Dr Wolfram Schiweck on "A short introduction to biotechnological and nucleic acid inventions"

10 September 2003: Talk given by Mr. Marc Bobys on US patent application filing procedure.

4 September 2003: Meeting of Executive Committee with Exploit Technology to encourage Exploit’s support of local patent agents.

29 May 2003: First Annual General Meeting.

13 May 2003: Review of the Singapore patent system.  Mr Tan Tee Jim, S.C., Mr Jupiter Kong and Mr Adam Bogsch represented ASPA at a dialogue with IPOS.

12 March 2003: Talk by Mr. Max Waldbraum on the emerging trends of the Patent Agents Profession.

13 Feb 2003: Letter to the IP academy to encourage government support to the development of Singapore’s patent profession.

18 December 2002: Tea session for patent agents, attorneys and trainees.

30 August 2002: Talk on IPOS by Ms. Isabel Chng, Director (Registry of Patents) followed by talk on A*Star by Suresan Sachithananthan, Legal Director of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research.