Procedures

Estimated three (3) to four (4) for smooth application

• Filing new patent application
• National Phase entry via PCT route within thirty (30) months from the earliest claimed priority date
  ‍OR
• Patent application via Paris Convention route within twelve (12) months
• Date of filing check and preliminary examination
• Publication in the Patents Journals (eighteen (18) months from the earliest priority date)
• Search and Substantive examination (to be requested within thirty-six (36) months from the earliest priority date)
• Supplementary examination (optional for PCT applications and rely on clear International Preliminary Report on Patentability, to be requested within fifty-four (54) months from the earliest priority date)
• Acceptance with issuance of Notice of Eligibility
• Grant of the patent

Requirements

• Name, nationality and address of the applicant(s) and inventor(s)
  
• Patent specification including description, claims, abstract and drawing(s)
• Power of Attorney
• Priority details (if any)
• Certified copy of Priority Document (if priority is claimed)
• A copy of the international application (PCT/RO/101) (for PCT route)
• PCT publication (for PCT route)
• Application should be filed in English

Grant & Maintenance

• Twenty (20) years from the filing date
  
• The first four (4) years have no renewal fee. The first annual fee is due on the fourth anniversary of the Singaporean filing date (for the fifth year)
• The patent will expire if the annual renewal fee is not paid within six (6) months after renewal due date
• Surcharge is applicable for late annuity payment

Remarks*

• Utility model is not available
  
• Divisional applications can be filed any time before the grant of the patent
  
• Novelty grace period: twelve (12) months before first priority date or filing date
  
• Patent has been granted in Singapore (with filing date on or after 11th February 2003) is allowed to file for Cambodian patent through the IPOS
  

Legal Basis

• Patents (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2007
  
• Memorandum of Understanding between the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS) and Cambodia’s Ministry of Industry and Handicrafts
  

Procedures

Estimated six (6) to nine (9) months for smooth application

• Filing new industrial design application
• Paris Convention route to be filed within six (6) months from the earliest claimed priority date
• Formality examination
• Proceed to registration
• Publication in the Designs Journal for public inspection

Requirements

• Name, nationality and address of the applicant(s) and designer(s) / author(s)
  
• Representation of the design with respective view(s) to be filed
  
• Title and brief description of the design
  
• Classification of the design in accordance with Locarno Classification
• Title and brief description of the design
• Statement of Novelty
• Priority details (if any)

Validity Term & Maintenance

• Initial protection of five (5) years from the filing date
  
• Renewal for a further period of ten (10) years subject to the payment of a renewal fee every five (5) years, for a total of fifteen (15) years
  

Remarks*

• Singapore is the contracting party to Hague Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Industrial Designs
  
• Multiple design application is available
  
• Novelty grace period: twelve (12) months before first priority date or filing date
  
• Design granted in Singapore is automatically valid in Cambodia
  

Legal Basis

• Registered Designs Act (Chapter 266)
  
• A special agreement on protection of Industrial Designs signed by the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore and Ministry of Industry and Handicraft (MIH) of Cambodia
  

Protection Duration

• Seventy (70) years after the author’s death for published literary, dramatic, musical or artistic works
  
• Fifty (50) years from the date of broadcast for broadcasts
  
• Twenty-five (25) years from the end of the year in which the work was first published for published editions of literary, dramatic, musical and artistic works
  

Remarks*

• Copyright is an automatic protection, which arises immediately when the work is created without registration requirements
  

Legal Basis

• Copyright Act (Chapter 63) 1987