Violet graduated from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in 2016 with an honours degree in Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, and a minor in Environmental Sustainability. During her final year in NTU, she enrolled in an overseas exchange programme to Imperial College London where she worked on the use of ammonium persulfate as an oxidant in organic synthesis for her final year project. She was awarded a scholarship by National University of Singapore (NUS) Graduate School - Integrative Sciences and Engineering Programme in 2016. The focus of her PhD research was on discovering new modes of activation for platinum(IV) prodrugs to achieve controlled anticancer drug delivery.
Violet is currently training to become a registered patent attorney in Singapore.
Earlier this year the Indian Patent Office updated a number of rules to “address some of the major pain points experienced by the patent applicants in Indian patent procedure”. These include everyone’s favourite procedural requirements: filing annual working statements and periodically submitting the details and prosecution documents issued on corresponding foreign patent applications. Some of the key changes are summarised below.
Last Friday, 19th July 2024, the Court of Appeal handed down a highly anticipated decision in the case between the Comptroller General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks (Comptroller) and Emotional Perception AI Ltd (EPL) [2024] EWCA Civ 825. This decision should provide greater clarity on the patentability in the UK of inventions using AI.
On 2 May 2024, the Paris Central Division of the UPC issued a decision concerning the jurisdiction and the applicability of the Brussels I Regulation (recast) in the context of a patent revocation action brought before the UPC. In the ongoing revocation action brought by Nokia Technology GmbH against Mala Technologies Ltd., a preliminary objection filed by Mala Technologies required the UPC to examine its relationship with the national courts of member states.