Return to Singapore 1995

"Brother Xiaofan, please come in and take a look at some of my latest revised plans! According to your idea, I basically used ocean blue and environmentally friendly green as the keynotes..." Tang Xinyi pointed to the renderings on the computer.

"Well, that's great. I like all these plans! Can you print them in color?"

"no problem!"

Li Xiaofan turned to ask Jenny next to him: "Jenny, does your company have a color fax machine?"

"Yes, do you want to use it now?"

"Um!"

Li Xiaofan selected two of Tang Xinyi's plans and sent them to a special color fax machine from the Foreign Trade Department of Dongfang Liming Glasses Factory.

Then he called the foreign trade department of Dongfang Liming Glasses Factory. The employees in the foreign trade department were basically working overtime these days, and Lin Zhiyong was staying there.

The Wu Chunfen who answered the phone was the director of the foreign trade department who had arranged for Li Xiaofan and the others to visit the factory last time when Hu Jiandong, the owner of Oriental Dawn Glasses Company.

She still has an impression of Li Xiaofan.

"Director Wu, I have just faxed two color design plans for plastic packaging gift boxes from Singapore. Please give your packaging supplier a look as soon as possible to choose which one is more suitable for production and which one has the actual effect. Better, okay?”

Wu Chunfen said: "Okay, I will contact the packaging supplier later and ask them to come over as soon as they get to work tomorrow!"

"Thank you very much. Then I will wait for your final CIF quotation!"

"Mr. Li, no problem. When the packaging supplier confirms the final plan with you tomorrow and gives us their quotation, we can give you the final CIF quotation!"

"Okay, thank you, Director Wu, for taking the trouble!"

"You're welcome, Mr. Li. Although this order is not small, if it is completed, it will also be our company's first foreign trade business directly exported to Singapore. I will keep an eye on it, don't worry!"

"That's great. I'll come back and thank you next time I go back to China!"

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After hanging up the phone, Li Xiaofan called Shah Rukh and told him that because his partner Tang Jiaming was on a temporary business trip, the contract would have to be signed in a few days. Shah Rukh said on the phone that he had no big objection.

After finishing these things, it was already past six o'clock in the evening.

"Jenny, I'm sorry for delaying your get off work time!"

"You're welcome, Mr. Li, working overtime is common in our company!"

After Jenny left, Tang Xinyi opened a few more pictures on the computer.

"Brother Xiaofan, I also briefly designed a few sunglasses trademarks that we discussed that night. Do you like any of them?"

After seeing several trademark design plans on the computer, Li Xiaofan was immediately attracted by the middle one: "Xinyi, I like this fifth plan very much! 1F, the Chinese homophone is 'yifan', you put 1 and F Combined together, it looks like a sail riding the wind and waves, and also like the Chinese character 'fan'. Our sunglasses look like an F1 sailing on the sea! The design is so ingenious and wonderful!"

Xinyi grinned happily and said, "Haha, is it true? Brother Xiaofan, this is also the idea you provided me!"

"I just had an idea at the beginning. Turning the idea into a product is the most difficult thing! Xinyi, you are really attentive and very creative!"

"Haha, no matter what, I am also a partner and minority shareholder of your new company!"

"Haha, it seems like the shares given to you are too few!"

"Haha, after I come back from studying at the Mainland Academy of Fine Arts, I hope your new company, Brother Xiaofan, will develop prosperously. Remember to pay me dividends when the time comes!" Tang Xinyi teased playfully.

"Haha, I must, I will give you a big red envelope when the time comes!"

"Brother Xiaofan, if you decide on Plan No. 5, after the new company registration is reviewed, remember to ask Jenny to help you register this trademark with the National Trademark Office in time!"

"Well, thank you for the reminder! I will ask Jenny to send it to domestic sunglasses manufacturers tomorrow so that we can make small sticker patterns on our own 10,000 pairs of sunglasses..."

Singapore’s trademark law is derived from the British Trademark Law, which stipulates that the acquisition of trademark rights is based on the first-to-use principle. The first user or intended user of a trademark must submit an application for trademark registration in the prescribed written format. Singapore is a member state of the Madrid International Registration of Trademarks.

If the applicant has submitted a registration application for the same trademark to the United Kingdom and its federal countries or a country that has a bilateral agreement on trademark protection with Singapore before filing an application for trademark registration with the Singapore Trademark Authority, he or she can apply for priority in Singapore. This must be made within six months of the original application date. Otherwise, someone other than the trademark owner can register as a user.

The Trademark Office of Singapore later changed its name to the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore.

Li Xiaofan looked at his watch and saw that it was getting late, so he said to Tang Xinyi:

"Xinyi, I feel a little sorry for having troubled you to help with so many projects these days. Maybe I'll treat you to a casual meal out to show my gratitude?"

"Okay! I'm going to attend a dance training with some of my best friends tonight, and I don't plan to go home for dinner. Brother Xiaofan, let's go then!"

"Xinyi, what kind of food do you like to eat? Can you choose a place, the riverside, the east coast or Dempsey Hill?"

"Why go to such a high-end place? It's a waste of money! Brother Xiaofan, I'm in a hurry, let's go to Newton Circus!"

"Oh, so you like Newton Circus, that's great, I like it too, let's go!"

The Newton Circus mentioned by Tang Xinyi is also called Newton Hawker Center and Newton Cooked Food Center. It is a very famous hawker center in Singapore, where a variety of food is gathered, a bit like the high-end food stalls in China.

The only disadvantage of Newton Circus is that it is outdoors and has no air conditioning, but the price is affordable and the transportation is convenient, making it a favorite of ordinary people in Singapore.

Li Xiaofan remembered that in his previous life, Nicholas Tse took Gui Lunmei to eat pepper crab and garlic shrimp in Singapore in the food show "12 Tastes of Chef Nic" in Newton Circus.

Tang Xinyi got in the car, and the two arrived at Newton Cooked Food Center more than ten minutes later.

Newton Food Centre has been open for more than 20 years. Because the entire centre was built with old colonial design elements, hundreds of food stalls are arranged in a horseshoe-shaped ring. Customers can browse all the cuisines around the centre, one circle outside and one circle inside. Therefore, local Singaporeans usually call this food centre "Newton Circus".

Newton Centre was originally famous for its local seafood barbecue, satay, famous chili crab, black pepper crab, etc., as well as various delicacies such as fried carrot cake, oyster omelette, duck noodles, etc. Because the price is relatively affordable and it is in the city, it is especially popular with Singaporeans and knowledgeable foreign tourists.

"Brother Xiaofan, what do you like to eat?"

"I don't care, I'll listen to you!"

"Then let's go to this shop No. 70, I used to come here more often!"

Shop No. 70 specializes in seafood. Li Xiaofan looked at the introduction on the shop. In addition to the signature dish black pepper crab, there are also special dishes such as garlic tiger shrimp, chili crab, manta ray, barbecued lala and cereal shrimp.

After asking the proprietress for the menu, Li Xiaofan took a look and found that the prices at this restaurant were much cheaper than those at Jumbo Seafood Restaurant on the East Coast. He wondered how the food tasted.

After the two of them sat down, Tang Xinyi was about to order a cold drink when her cell phone rang.