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Simon Potter named managing director of Spruson & Ferguson Australia
14 December 2022Potter has been head of the firm’s Australian chemicals and life sciences team.
Clyde & Co. announces plans to open Bangkok office
14 December 2022Firm will initially focus on insurance, but CEO expects growth in other core sectors.
Tram Ngoc Bich Nguyen joins Tilleke & Gibbins in Ho Chi Minh City
14 December 2022Nguyen’s practice focuses on foreign investment, ecommerce, fintech and data privacy.
Hundreds of ZICO lawyers join KPMG in Southeast Asia
14 December 2022Professional services firm KPMG creates significant legal footprint with acquisitions.
Bahari Yeow, IP team move from Gan to Malaysian rival RDS
14 December 2022Zhi Jian Lim joins Yeow at new firm in Kuala Lumpur.
Kristin Stammer named executive partner at HSF
14 December 2022IP lawyer will lead Herbert Smith Freehills’ regional ambitions for three-year term.
Anne-Marie Allgrove named Baker McKenzie Australia national managing partner
14 December 2022Allgrove, the firm’s global chair of IPT, is first woman to hold national managing partner role.
HKIAC Secretariat welcomes new team members
12 December 2022Dong Long named organization’s new managing counsel in Hong Kong.
Challenges with adding or removing an inventor in a filed Indian patent application
30 November 2022The Ayyangar Committee’s report, which was issued in 1959 and provides the legislative intent behind most of the provisions of today’s Indian patent law, states that an inventor has a moral right to be named as the inventor.
Hong Kong legislators push to remove the Queen from local laws
06 December 2022Hong Kong legislators have called into question why colonial-era laws remain on the city’s books, and why such laws continue to refer to “the Queen”. Hong Kong was “reunified” with mainland China in 1997.
BIP Asia: ASEAN supports IP commercialization and technology transfer
06 December 2022In the recently concluded 12th Business of IP Asia Forum held at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre on December 1 and 2, Rowel Barba, chair of the ASEAN Working Group on Intellectual Property Cooperation (AWGIPC) and who is also director...
2022 India IP Awards
31 October 2022Intellectual property owners have been overwhelmingly positive about the changes they’ve seen to India’s IP regime over recent years.
Did Chrissy Teigen copy Auckland cake shop’s trade dress for baking kits?
05 December 2022IP lawyer says it’s hard to prove that packaging is deceptively similar.
BIP Asia: Philippines to create an efficient, inclusive IP rights system
02 December 2022The Philippines will continue intensifying efforts to create not only an efficient and inclusive IP rights system but also an IP regime that is responsive to emerging challenges.
Declassifying trade secret licensing
31 October 2022Trade secrets can be a useful form of intellectual property protection. They often come at a much lower costs than a patent, but in Asia, at least, they also come with significantly fewer protections.
