SingPost P.O. Box Service Cessation on 31 March 2025.

SingPost will be ceasing their P.O. Box service on 31 March 2025. Accordingly, SingPost’s P.O. Box addresses no longer serve as valid addresses for service for transactions before IPOS with effect from 1 April 2025. Filers are to ensure that valid addresses for service in Singapore are used.

Cap of Collaborative Search & Examination (CS&E)

IPOS – IP Viet Nam
Cap of 20 requests per year, further capped at 2 per month and 2 per entity per month. Unutilised number is rolled over to the next month, to a maximum cap of 4 per month.

The current usage is 00/04.

IPOS – DGIP Indonesia
Cap of 10 requests per year, further capped at 1 per month and 1 per entity per month. Unutilised number is rolled over to the next month, to a maximum cap of 2 per month.

The current usage is 00/02.

[Updated as at 03/03/2025. Usage will be updated when a patent application is successfully placed on CS&E.]

System Maintenance on 29 March 2025

IPOS Digital Hub will be undergoing system maintenance on 29 March 2025, 02:00 PM to 11:59 PM. Its services will not be available during this period. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

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