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title: What Is the Deadline to File a Transformation Application in Singapore, and Does It Keep My Priority Date?
description: "The Singapore transformation deadline is three months from the WIPO cancellation date, and a successful transformation keeps your original international registration and priority date. The deadline is strict: the transformation application must be filed with IPOS **within three months from…"
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updated: "2026-07-07"
category: International Registration (Madrid)
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# What Is the Deadline to File a Transformation Application in Singapore, and Does It Keep My Priority Date?

The Singapore transformation deadline is three months from the WIPO cancellation date, and a successful transformation keeps your original international registration and priority date.

The deadline is strict: the transformation application must be filed with IPOS **within three months from the date on which the international registration was cancelled** by WIPO.

This deadline is **not extendable** — there is no treaty mechanism and no reliable Singapore exception (including the Singapore Treaty on the Law of Trademarks Article 14 or the Trade Marks Rules extension provisions) that revives a missed three-month window, so do not plan around one.

Meeting that deadline brings two important benefits:

- **Filing date.** The transformed national application is treated as though it had been filed on the **date of the international registration** (Article 3(4) date), not the later transformation date.
- **Priority.** The transformed application **enjoys the same priority date(s)** that applied to the cancelled goods/services under the international registration.

In short, transformation protects you against intervening third-party filings made during the gap — you keep your original place in the queue. Miss the three-month window, however, and you lose the ability to transform; your only route back into Singapore is a completely fresh application at the later date. Because the clock starts on WIPO's cancellation date — not on the date you learn of it — monitoring the basic mark is the only real protection.

*Source: Madrid Protocol Article 9quinquies; IPOS Work Manual, para 21.*

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