Singapore

Firm overview

Cat and Pillar is a specialized boutique firm providing comprehensive trademark prosecution strategy for 
founders, established global brands, and growing businesses. By combining eight years of direct experience as a trademark examiner at the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS) with a focus on procedural efficiency, the firm has established a reliable method for protecting brand assets in Singapore and international jurisdictions.

Scope of Expertise:

The practice manages the entire trademark lifecycle, ensuring that intellectual property is defended at every stage. Services include:

Strategic Pre-filing: Conducting thorough searches and delivering highly accurate assessments (98% accuracy) of a brand’s prospects before filing.

Classification Strategy: Advising on optimal class selection aligned with the client’s business model to maximize protection and mitigate the risk of registry refusals.

Application Management: Overseeing the full filing process to ensure applications align with registry 
requirements.

Contentious Matters: Proactively responding to refusals, managing complex oppositions, and representing clients in negotiations and mediations for disputes.

Global Reach: Providing consistent, expert representation for both Singapore and international filings.

Why Clients Choose Cat and Pillar

The firm’s reputation is built on consistent, high-stakes results and the long-term trust of the organizations it serves. Cat and Pillar is the preferred choice for those who value:

Senior Practitioner Oversight: Every case is vetted by a senior practitioner within the firm, ensuring that strategy is handled with professional care and deep technical oversight.

Straightforward Communication: The firm provides practical, actionable advice without unnecessary legal jargon or evasive disclaimers.

Proven Track Record: Recognition in the WTR 1000 and IP STARS rankings reflects the firm’s ability to secure registrations for brands that require reliable, expert support.

Cat and Pillar is privileged to represent a diverse portfolio of clients, ranging from agile startups to established international organizations such as Paradise Group, Yeahka, Transtek, and Shein.

The firm is dedicated to providing professional and results-oriented service, prioritizing brand security through focused, examiner-level expertise.

Firm overview

Firm overview

JurisAsia is a Corporate & IP focused law firm that advises clients across Southeast Asia from our base in Singapore.

Our internationally-ranked lawyers are leading experts in their field and help clients conduct business across the region. We have industry-focused expertise, working closely with our clients’ businesses in Singapore and across ASEAN.

We provide high quality, innovative and commercial advice to a wide range of clients across many industry sectors.

Our Corporate expertise covers M&A, investments into technology and growth stage companies, capital market advisory and operational advice for MNCs, regional conglomerates, private equity and venture capital funds.

Our IP team advises national, international and global companies, as well as universities, technology transfer institutes and start-ups, to secure, exploit and extract value from their IP.

We work with clients by getting to know their business and their requirements in detail before delivering commercial, pragmatic, timely and often innovative solutions that meet their specific objectives.

Through our association with international law firm Gowling WLG, we support our clients’ interests both in Singapore and around the world. Through this relationship we can deliver world-class legal advice from 18 cities in the UK, Canada, Continental Europe, China and the Middle East.

Firm overview

Marks & Clerk is one of the UK’s largest, and longest established, intellectual property firms. Our expert teams of patent and trade mark attorneys and lawyers are wired directly into the UK’s innovation economies via our offices in London, Birmingham, Manchester, Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen. Alongside our presence in the UK, we also have offices in nine international locations covering the EU, Canada and Asia, meaning we can tap into local expertise, globally. 

Our team provides a full-service IP offering, from the initial filing of IP, through to litigation and commercial exploitation. Having seen the benefits that our clients derive from our full-service model, a number of patent attorney firms have since sought to follow a similar approach by adding solicitors to their teams. However, our well-established and highly regarded litigation and commercial transactions practices continue to set us apart from other firms.

We are experts not only in intellectual property law, but also in the science and technology that underpins our clients’ businesses. Our ability to draw upon this specialist technical expertise, not just in the context of patent prosecution but also in the context of litigation and commercial transactions, enables us to provide clients with a level of service and reach unmatched by other firms.