Highlights
Developments in IP Law - Trade Marks
The final seminar in the 13th Developments in IP Law Series on trade marks was held on 5 February 2026 at the Suntec City Convention Centre. About 150 participants signed up for this session ranging from trade mark examiners from IPOS to organisations and law firms such as Cambridge University Press, Defence Science & Technology Agency, Fraser and Neave, National Heritage Board, Singapore Tourism Board, Bird & Bird ATMD, Drew & Napier and Lee & Lee. EW Barker Centre for Law & Business is proud to continue to be a co-organiser of this event with IPOS International.
Developments in IP Law – Breach of Confidence/Privacy and Data Protection
On 29 January 2026, IPOS International (in collaboration with the EW Barker Centre for Law & Business) conducted a seminar at Suntec City on the developments in the law on breach of confidence and privacy and data protection in 2025.
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TRAIL Year In Review 2025
The annual report for TRAIL, titled "YEAR IN REVIEW 2025", contains a write-up of the key conferences that TRAIL had organised in 2025 with its partner institutions, as well as highlights of publications by its academic fellows. In 2025, Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization Daren Tang was the keynote speaker at the "Intellectual Property in the 21st Century: Challenges in the Next Decade" conference in Singapore, which was presented by Google, ByteDance and Baker McKenzie, in partnership with law research centres at Columbia, Oxford and Tsinghua. Read all about it here.
Developments in IP Law - Copyright
The EW Barker Centre for Law & Business (EWBCLB) continues its collaboration with IPOS International in 2026 as a co-organiser of the Developments in IP Law Series, now in its 13th edition. The session on copyright, held on 22 January at Suntec City Convention Centre, attracted a good crowd, with participants from law firms such as Allen & Gledhill, Rajah & Tann, Amica Law LLC, and That.Legal, and a wide range of agencies, companies and organisations that include the Attorney-General’s Chambers, COMPASS, IFPI, Walt Disney, National Heritage Board and Housing & Development Board. The other three seminars are: Patents (15 January); Breach of Confidence/Privacy & Data Protection (29 January); Trade Marks/Passing Off (5 February).
SLATE IX: Do we need a new International AI Bill of Human Rights?
On 16 January 2026, Prof. Yuval Shany, Hersch Lauterpacht Chair in International Law at the Hebrew University, delivered the 9th seminar in the Seminars on Law and Technology (“SLATE”) series with a timely talk titled “Do we need a new International AI Bill of Human Rights?” The moderator is Professor Ernest Lim, the Chan Sek Keong Chair in Private Law at the NUS Faculty of Law. The seminar examined whether we need a new International AI Bill of Human Rights to tackle various challenges brought by artificial intelligence.