Trade Marks Act
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The Trade Marks Act is Singapore’s primary legislation governing the registration, protection, and enforcement of trademarks and related rights.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Trade Marks Act (Singapore) | 2 |
| Trade Marks Act canonical | 1 |
| Trade Marks Rules (Singapore) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4054723 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Trade Marks Act Context triple: [Singapore law, hasIntellectualPropertyStatute, Trade Marks Act]
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A.
Trademark Act of 1946 (Lanham Act) provisions
The Trademark Act of 1946, commonly known as the Lanham Act, is the primary federal statute governing trademarks, service marks, and unfair competition in the United States.
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B.
Emblems and Names (Prevention of Improper Use) Act, 1950
The Emblems and Names (Prevention of Improper Use) Act, 1950 is an Indian law that restricts the unauthorized use of certain official emblems, names, and symbols to prevent their misuse for commercial or professional purposes.
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C.
Trademark Act of Japan
The Trademark Act of Japan is the primary Japanese statute governing the registration, protection, and enforcement of trademark rights within Japan.
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D.
Trademark Films
Trademark Films is a British film production company known for producing feature films including the biographical drama "My Week with Marilyn."
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E.
Nice Agreement Concerning the International Classification of Goods and Services for the Purposes of the Registration of Marks
The Nice Agreement Concerning the International Classification of Goods and Services for the Purposes of the Registration of Marks is an international treaty that establishes a standardized classification system used worldwide for registering trademarks.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Trade Marks Act Target entity description: The Trade Marks Act is Singapore’s primary legislation governing the registration, protection, and enforcement of trademarks and related rights.
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A.
Trademark Act of 1946 (Lanham Act) provisions
The Trademark Act of 1946, commonly known as the Lanham Act, is the primary federal statute governing trademarks, service marks, and unfair competition in the United States.
-
B.
Emblems and Names (Prevention of Improper Use) Act, 1950
The Emblems and Names (Prevention of Improper Use) Act, 1950 is an Indian law that restricts the unauthorized use of certain official emblems, names, and symbols to prevent their misuse for commercial or professional purposes.
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C.
Trademark Act of Japan
The Trademark Act of Japan is the primary Japanese statute governing the registration, protection, and enforcement of trademark rights within Japan.
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D.
Trademark Films
Trademark Films is a British film production company known for producing feature films including the biographical drama "My Week with Marilyn."
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E.
Nice Agreement Concerning the International Classification of Goods and Services for the Purposes of the Registration of Marks
The Nice Agreement Concerning the International Classification of Goods and Services for the Purposes of the Registration of Marks is an international treaty that establishes a standardized classification system used worldwide for registering trademarks.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Singapore statute
ⓘ
intellectual property legislation ⓘ |
| abbreviation | TMA ⓘ |
| administeredBy | Intellectual Property Office of Singapore ⓘ |
| allows |
priority claims based on earlier foreign trade mark applications
ⓘ
registration of non-traditional trade marks subject to conditions ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
legal persons
ⓘ
natural persons ⓘ |
| citationForm |
Trade Marks Act
self-link
ⓘ
surface form:
Trade Marks Act (Singapore)
|
| country | Singapore ⓘ |
| enforcedBy |
Intellectual Property Office of Singapore
ⓘ
Judiciary of Singapore ⓘ
surface form:
Singapore courts
|
| governs |
enforcement of trade mark rights in Singapore
ⓘ
protection of trade marks in Singapore ⓘ registration of trade marks in Singapore ⓘ |
| harmonisedWith | international trade mark treaties ⓘ |
| implements |
Singapore’s obligations under the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property
ⓘ
Singapore’s obligations under the TRIPS Agreement ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | Singapore ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| legalArea |
intellectual property law
ⓘ
trade mark law ⓘ |
| providesFor |
absolute grounds for refusal of trade mark registration
ⓘ
assignment of trade marks ⓘ border enforcement measures for trade marks ⓘ certification marks regime ⓘ collective marks regime ⓘ defences to trade mark infringement ⓘ infringement of registered trade marks ⓘ invalidity of trade marks ⓘ licensing of trade marks ⓘ relative grounds for refusal of trade mark registration ⓘ remedies for trade mark infringement ⓘ requirements for registrability of trade marks ⓘ revocation of trade marks ⓘ rights conferred by registration of a trade mark ⓘ trade mark registration procedures ⓘ |
| purpose |
to implement a system for the registration and protection of trade marks in Singapore
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to protect consumers from confusion as to the origin of goods and services ⓘ to protect the interests of trade mark proprietors ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Intellectual Property Office of Singapore
ⓘ
surface form:
Intellectual Property Office of Singapore Act
Trade Marks Act self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Trade Marks Rules (Singapore)
|
| sector |
business regulation
ⓘ
commercial law ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
certification marks
ⓘ
collective marks ⓘ service marks ⓘ trade marks ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Trade Marks Act Description of subject: The Trade Marks Act is Singapore’s primary legislation governing the registration, protection, and enforcement of trademarks and related rights.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Patents Act (Singapore)
this entity surface form:
Trade Marks Act (Singapore)
subject surface form:
Trade Marks Act (Singapore)
this entity surface form:
Trade Marks Rules (Singapore)
subject surface form:
Trade Marks Act (Singapore)
this entity surface form:
Trade Marks Act (Singapore)