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Published Mon, Apr 3, 2017 · 09:50 PM

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TO better support Singapore's design industry, a series of changes governing the registration of designs were tabled by the Ministry of Law on Monday.

These include broadening the scope of registrable designs, shifting ownership from commissioning party to designer, changes to design grace period provision and procedural changes to make filing designs easier.

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