Intellectual Property

Trade Mark Registration & Prosecution

We represent local and foreign clients from different industries such as:

Aerospace; Automobile, Advertising and Marketing; Beauty Care and Cosmetics; Clothing; Cafes; Education; Electronics; Entertainment; Employment Agency; Fashion; Food and Beverage; Hotels; Healthcare; Heavy Machinery Manufacturing; Information Technology; Jewellery; Lighting, Lifestyle and Spa resorts; Marine and Diving; Restaurants; Printing; Publication; Semi-Conductors Manufacturing; Security; Software; Travel; Transportation; Telecommunications and Pharmaceuticals.

We do trade mark registration and prosecution of IP infringement action in Singapore including opposition, cancellation and invalidation actions at the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore and co-ordinate such prosecution actions overseas.

We are accredited and appointed by SPRING SG as their IP Legal Consultant/ Service Provider to Small & Medium Enterprises in Singapore, providing IP Legal Diagnostic advice to help local SMEs to chart their IP Road Map & explore commercialising their IPs internationally.

Patent Registration

We help assess the patentability of our clients’ innovations and advise them on the Patent Road Map for their inventions, creative works and plan their patent registration in Singapore, Patent Cooperation Treaty member countries and Non- PCT countries.

We have successfully registered patents in countries worldwide involving patents from bio-medical field, information technology, semi conductor, machinery, software, optics, aircrafts, nano technology, transport, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, business methods patents and utility patents.

Design Registration

We advise and assist our clients with their design registrations in Singapore and overseas through the filing of International Design Application (via the Hague System).

Copyright Protection

We advise our clients on the protection of their copyrighted works and help them to formalise the documentation of their creative works with registration in relevant countries (where possible) and guide them through copyright transfers and assignments.

IP Portfolio Management & Commercialisation

We believe that good IP Portfolio Management is necessary for the development and growth of IP assets and value in a Company. We help audit our clients’ IPs and advise on strategies for the registration, management and commercialisation/monetisation of their IPs for the continued growth of their businesses.

Corporate & Commercial

We advise on mergers and acquisitions of businesses and companies, Joint-Ventures, Structuring and Restructuring of companies, Franchising, Licensing, Commercial & IT contracts, Employment contracts, Shareholders Agreements, Partnership Agreements, Sale and Purchase Agreements, Technology Transfer Agreements, Assignments, Supply Agreements, Distributorship, Agency, Consultancy, Tenancy, Confidentiality and Non-Disclosure Agreements.

We provide registered office and named Company Secretary services and also assist in applications for employment passes, work permits, permanent residence and other immigration matters. The provision of incorporation and registration advice and compliance services by the Corporate Secretarial Practice is also an integral part of our practice.

Wills, Probate, Letters of Administration & LPA

We advise our clients on succession planning for their businesses and draft their Wills and Family arrangement agreement to make provisions for their family and dependents.

We guide our clients in the preparation and filing of their Lasting Power of Attorney to provide for unforseen circumstances.

We advise and assist our clients to obtain Grant of Probate (where there is a Will) or Letters of Administration (where there is no Will).

Notary Public, Commissioner for Oaths & Legalisation Services

We provide notarisation or commissioning of documents and legalisation services for personal/commercial documents to be authenticated or legalised up to the relevant Embassy in Singapore.

Divorce and Family Matters

We advise on divorce matters (contentious and non-contentious), divison of matrimonial property, maintenance of spouse and children, custody and access to children, personal protection orders and adoption.

Laurel Loi

Laurel is the Managing Director of the Law Corporation and heads the Intellectual Property Department. She advise on contentious and non-contentious IP matters (e.g. Trade Mark, Copyright and Designs Infringement actions, seizure of Counterfeit Goods and instituting prosecution action) and other matters relating to breach of confidence, usurpation of trade secrets, theft of technical know-how and brand names, misrepresentation, passing off, anti-competition disputes and defamation.

She advises on local and global trade mark registration (via the Madrid Protocol) and also direct filings into various foreign countries to help clients preserve their brand presence in Singapore and worldwide.

She assists clients with their design registrations into various countries and manages their Intellectual Property Portfolio with pertinent advice on IP commercialisation strategies to enhance Brand value and monetizing their IPs.

Laurel is an accredited SCOPE IP consultant for the SCOPE IP Programme of the Intellectual Property Office Of Singapore and had assisted SMEs to enhance their IP Capability Development and IP Portfolio growth via various SPRING Singapore programs including the Innovation & Capability Voucher Scheme and Capability Development Grant.

She focuses on helping new start-ups to develop, protect and manage their IP Portfolio with the aim to increase brand presence and revenue growth. She assesses SMEs internal IP framework and processes and structure IP capability development strategies to build on existing IPs for commercialisation.

As a Singapore Registered Patent Agent, Laurel advise on the patentability of inventions, patent protection and registration in Singapore and other key markets via the PCT Registration and/or direct filing into Non-PCT countries. She handles clients’ pre and post registration transfers and renewals.

She represents clients in the negotiation of contracts including commercial and IP contracts such as Sale & Purchase of IP Assets, Assignment of Patents, Transfer of Technology, Copyright protection, Franchising, Licensing, Collaboration Agreements, Joint Ventures, Distributorships, Supply Agreements, Agency Agreements, Sale & Purchase of Shares, Web-site and portal development and IT hosting agreements, Telecommunications services, Consultancy, Employment, Confidentiality & Non-Disclosure Agreements and various Software & End-User Service Level agreements.

Laurel is a member of the Asian Patent Attorneys Association (Singapore Group) and works closely with a good network of foreign associates worldwide in the protection of clients’ Intellectual Property rights.

Benjamin Low

Benjamin is an External Associate to the Law Corporation.

He has corporate and commercial legal experience that spans over 23 years, involving various aspects of corporate and commercial work in legal practice, as in-house legal counsel in various US, Japanese and Taiwanese MNCs; as investment banker in a local bank and investment manager with a Japanese conglomerate with investment mandate over the ASEAN region.

Benjamin’s ACCA Professional Degree in Accounting and Graduate Diploma in Intellectual Property has enabled him to value-add and conceptualise clients’ problems differently, helping them to think out of the box and provide effective solutions to their problems.

He has experience in establishing greenfield manufacturing projects in Singapore and in South East Asia region.

Benjamin guides new start-up companies, help set up offices in Singapore and regional countries and assist with regulatory matters such as tax and human resource matters, investment and divestment of businesses by multi-national companies and structures tax-efficient commercial transactions to cater to specific needs and interests. 

He has experience with corporate and commercial matters and provides relevant guidance on merger and acquisitions transactions, pre & post joint venture partnerships, sale and purchase of businesses, shareholders’ and directors’ rights and duties and general corporate secretarial work, corporate restructuring and corporate due diligence.

Jeevan John

Jeevan is a Director in the Litigation Department of the Law Corporation.

He has wide experience in litigation and his main focus is in Corporate and Commercial litigation. Jeevan’s areas of practice include employment law, landlord and tenant disputes, contested probate actions, family law and criminal law.

He also handles partnership disputes, shareholder disputes, disputes between parties in joint ventures. Jeevan’s family practice includes divorce, personal protection orders, maintenance and adoption. He has acted for high net worth clients in acrimonious divorce proceedings and successfully protected their interests and assets.

He has also represented clients for personal injury and death claims arising from road traffic accidents and work place injuries. He has been appointed to a panel of lawyers by a large motor insurer to represent them in proceedings in the State Courts and High Court.

In his criminal practice, Jeevan has successfully acted for clients charged with a variety of offences such as criminal intimidation, outrage of modesty, causing death by negligence and criminal breach of trust.

Civil, Commercial & Criminal Litigation

We represent our clients in a broad spectrum of civil and commercial claims, including contractual disputes, shareholders disputes, unfair dismissal or termination, landlord and tenant disputes, building and construction claims, maritime contractual disputes, insurance claims, debt recovery, judicial management, liquidation, receivership, schemes of arrangement and bankruptcy.

We advise on criminal matters including corporate fraud (breach of trust, forgery, cheating, misappropriation of funds), theft, Assault and battery, and domestic violence.

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Privacy Policy

We respect your privacy and place high importance in the protection of your personal data which we may collect from you in the course of dealings with you.

Our Privacy Policy is made in accordance with the Personal Data Protection Act (“the PDPA”) and we follow the PDPA in our collection, use and/or disclosure of your personal data.

(1) Collection of your Personal Data

We collect personal data such as names, addresses (including email addresses), telephone, mobile and fax numbers, your connection to our Law Corporation, your current occupation, job designation and company name.

(2) Purposes for which we use your Personal Data

The purposes for which we use your personal data may include (but is not limited to) the following:

• responding to your requests or enquiries on various matters or in determining which legal services you may require
• providing you with our services including invites to events, seminars, talks, etc. that may be of interest to you
• providing you with legal updates or general procedural changes affecting you

(3) Data Quality

We will use our best efforts to ensure that personal data we collect, use or disclose are accurate, complete and current

(4) Data Security

We will use our best efforts to protect your personal data which we hold, from misuse, loss, unauthorized access, modification or disclosure. We will note keep your personal data for longer than is necessary and take reasonable steps to destroy your personal data held by us, if it is no longer needed

(5) Access and Correction

You are entitled to have access to the personal data about you that is in our possession and control, and information on the ways in which your personal data has been or may have been used or disclosed within a year before the date of the request. You must submit a written application to our Law Corporation’s Designated Person (as defined herebelow) requesting for any such information. However, we reserve the right to charge a fee (being our administrative cost for attending to your request) for supplying such information to you. In addition, we reserve the right to refuse your requests if in our opinion it is unreasonable.

For any correction of an error or omission in your personal data that is kept with us, upon your written request to correct such data, we will use our best efforts to send such corrected personal data to the relevant authority/organisation to which such personal data was previously sent, unless such authority/organisation does not require the corrected personal data for their purposes. We reserve the right not to provide you with access to or correct such information by relying on the exception to the PDPA, which include: (a) where there are reasonable grounds that such correction should not be made (b) where the request for access is frivolous or vexatious or the information requested is trivial (c) the personal data relates to a prosecution and all the proceedings related to the prosecution have not been completed (d) the personal data, if disclosed, would reveal confidential commercial information that could in the opinion of a reasonable person, harm our competitive position; and (e) the personal data was collected, used or disclosed for the purposes of an investigation, associated proceedings and appeals that have not been completed.

(6) Trans Border Data Flow

If your personal data is transferred to a country or territory outside of Singapore, for example, for services sub-contracted/sub-delegated to an overseas agent/resource centre, we will use our best efforts to ensure that the recipients of such personal data shall adhere to a standard of protection that is comparable to ours in the protection of your personal data tranferred to them

(7) Enquiries and Complaints

To assist you in your queries or requests for an application concerning your personal information or data, please contact our Law Corporation’s Designated Person who will be responsible to attend to your request/query in  compliance with the PDPA.

Designated Person:

Email: office@elohimlaw.com (Attention to : the “Data Protection Officer”)

Contact No.: (65) 6223 1673

Office Address: 137 Telok Ayer Street #07-05, Singapore 068602