Seiko Epson Corporation v Sepoms Technology Pte Ltd and Another

JurisdictionSingapore
JudgeAndrew Phang Boon Leong JA
Judgment Date16 November 2007
Neutral Citation[2007] SGCA 52
Docket NumberCivil Appeal No 19 of 2007
Date16 November 2007
Year2007
Published date20 November 2007
Plaintiff CounselKang Choon Hwee Alban, Koh Chia Ling and Arthur Yap (Alban Tay Mahtani & de Silva)
Citation[2007] SGCA 52
Defendant CounselYeong Zee Kin and Lee So Kang (Rajah & Tann)
CourtCourt of Appeal (Singapore)
Subject Matter"Defence",Patents and Inventions,Defence of innocent infringement,"Liability",Whether defence of innocent infringement operating as defence to liability,Words and Phrases,Defence,Infringement,Liability for infringement,"Defence to Liability",Scope of defence of innocent infringement,Whether defence of innocent infringement could be raised after liability for patent infringement admitted
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4 cases
  • Wing Joo Loong Ginseng Hong (Singapore) Company Pte Ltd v Qinghai Xinyuan Foreign Trade Company Ltd
    • Singapore
    • Court of Appeal (Singapore)
    • March 2, 2009
    ...142 CLR 1 (refd) Scandecor Development AB v Scandecor Marketing AB [2002] FSR 7 (refd) Seiko Epson Corp v Sepoms Technology Pte Ltd [2008] 1 SLR (R) 269; [2008] 1 SLR 269 (refd) Smith v Braintree District Council [1990] 2 AC 215 (refd) Sunonwealth Electric Machine Industry Co Ltd v Siemens ......
  • Wing Joo Loong Ginseng Hong (Singapore) Co Pte Ltd v Qinghai Xinyuan Foreign Trade Co Ltd and Another and Another Appeal
    • Singapore
    • Court of Appeal (Singapore)
    • March 2, 2009
    ...statutory interpretation” [emphasis added] (per Andrew Phang Boon Leong JA in Seiko Epson Corporation v Sepoms Technology Pte Ltd [2008] 1 SLR 269 at (1) Parliament’s intention 141 The long title of the current TMA describes the Act as: [a]n Act to establish a new law for trade marks, to en......
  • Cost Engineers (SEA) Pte Ltd and another v Chan Siew Lun
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • October 19, 2015
    ...consent judgment, that is what the parties must be taken to have intended. In Seiko Epson Corp v Sepoms Technology Pte Ltd and another [2008] 1 SLR(R) 269 (“Seiko”), the appellant sued the respondents for patent infringement. In its defence, the respondents pleaded the defence of innocent i......
  • Cost Engineers (SEA) Pte Ltd and another v Chan Siew Lun
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • October 19, 2015
    ...consent judgment, that is what the parties must be taken to have intended. In Seiko Epson Corp v Sepoms Technology Pte Ltd and another [2008] 1 SLR(R) 269 (“Seiko”), the appellant sued the respondents for patent infringement. In its defence, the respondents pleaded the defence of innocent i......
2 books & journal articles
  • WORKPLACE HARASSMENT
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2015, December 2015
    • December 1, 2015
    ...v David Roy Burton[2010] HKDC 252; Yuen Sha Sha v Tse Chi Pan[1999] 1 HKC 731. 96 See, eg, Seiko Epson Corp v Sepoms Technology Pte Ltd[2008] 1 SLR(R) 269 at [37]–[38]. 97 See, eg, Wishing Star Ltd v Jurong Town Corp[2008] 2 SLR(R) 909. 98 See Singapore Parliamentary Debates, Official Repor......
  • Intellectual Property Law
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2007, December 2007
    • December 1, 2007
    ...be granted’. 17.81 This clarification was elaborated upon recently by the Court of Appeal in Seiko Epsom Corp v Sepoms Technology Pte Ltd[2008] 1 SLR 269 (‘the Seiko case’). The case concerned a dispute over the parties” consent judgment which had provided, amongst others, that the responde......

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