Intellectual Property

Tilleke & Gibbins is a one-stop center for all IP services, including registration and enforcement, commercialization, litigation, government relations, and regulatory affairs. Our high-caliber practice is internationally recognized in anticounterfeiting, IP litigation, strategic filing advice, and commercial IP work.

We help creators strategically position, protect, and profit from intellectual assets in diverse markets worldwide. Our success on our clients’ behalf has led to global recognition as a leading intellectual property (IP) practice in Thailand and Vietnam by such surveys as Asialaw Profiles, Chambers Asia Pacific, The Legal 500 Asia Pacific, Managing Intellectual Property, Practical Law Co., World Trademark Review, Asia IP, Asian Legal Business, and others. 

We are versatile practitioners—well-educated in the overlapping fields of science, technology, and the law by top universities and real-world practice in one of the toughest IP regions in the world. In Bangkok, our IP group consists of 48 lawyers, including 7 litigators; 9 patent agents with backgrounds in chemistry, biology, computer science, food science, materials science, or physics; 10 trademark executives; 60 support personnel, including a government/police liaison and a private investigator; and 24 technical specialists in various scientific fields, on an as-needed basis. The Vietnam IP team consists of 15 members, including veteran IP practitioners and patent agents.

We are educators—our IP attorneys provide free lectures and tours of our Museum of Counterfeit Goods to students of all ages, clients, diplomats, intellectual property practitioners, Thai and foreign police, Interpol officers, judges, government officials, and business executives. The museum’s collection is composed of more than 3,500 products in 14 broad categories of goods, many of which were used as evidence in court or seized in raids overseen by our firm. By viewing counterfeit goods alongside their genuine counterparts, museum visitors gain a new perspective on the extent and consequences of the counterfeiting of legitimate goods.

To learn more about our IP services and our achievements on behalf of our clients, please continue reading about our IP Registration and Enforcement, IP Commercialization, and IP Litigation practices.

Name Position Office Contact

Alan Adcock

Partner Bangkok

alan.a@tilleke.com

+66 2653 5871

Darani Vachanavuttivong

Partner Bangkok

darani.v@tilleke.com

+66 2653 5888

Nandana Indananda

Partner Bangkok

nandana.i@tilleke.com

+66 2653 5879

Srila Thongklang

Partner Bangkok

srila.t@tilleke.com

+66 2653 5529

Sukontip Jitmongkolthong

Partner Bangkok

sukontip.j@tilleke.com

+66 2653 5867

Thomas J. Treutler

Partner Hanoi

thomas.t@tilleke.com

+84 4 3772 5633

Jeffrey J. Blatt

Of Counsel Bangkok

jeffrey.b@tilleke.com

+66 2653 5644

Ampolphan Sriduangchan

Associate Bangkok

ampolphan.s@tilleke.com

+66 2653 5746

Areeya Pornwiriyangkura

Associate Bangkok

areeya.p@tilleke.com

+66 2653 5882

Daroonwan Siripornanan

Associate Bangkok

daroonwan.s@tilleke.com

+66 2653 5751

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December 7, 2012

Museum of Counterfeit Goods Featured in the Legal Tribune Online

James Evans

After a recent visit to the Tilleke & Gibbins Museum of Counterfeit Goods by representatives from the Legal Tribune Online, a German online newspaper covering issues of the law and...

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December 6, 2012

Tilleke & Gibbins Tops Asialaw Profiles Rankings for Thailand

Tilleke & Gibbins has the greatest breadth of expertise of any domestic law firm in Thailand, according to a recently released publication.

In the Thailand research for Asialaw...

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November 30, 2012

Bangkok Post: Unfair Competition Laws for Software Piracy Could Spread

Wiramrudee (Pink) Mokkhavesa

The reach of U.S. Unfair Competition Acts (UCA), which have now been passed in more than 36 states, has expanded to affect many Thai businesses, according to an article appearing in today’s...

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November 26, 2012

Areeya Pornwiriyangkura to Present on Business Expansion Through IP Licensing

Areeya Pornwiriyangkura

On November 29, a free one-day seminar in Bangkok will educate business professionals about the important role of intellectual property management in enhancing corporate competitiveness. Organized...

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November 23, 2012

Tilleke & Gibbins Once Again Named “Best Firm in Thailand” at Asia Women in Business Law Awards

Darani Vachanavuttivong, Tiziana Sucharitkul

On November 22, 2012, the Euromoney Legal Media Group held its second annual Asia Women in Business Law Awards at the Renaissance Harbor View Hotel in Hong Kong. At the event, Tilleke...

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May 23, 2013

IP Enforcement Training for Customs Across Thailand

Sukontip Jitmongkolthong

Border measures are at the frontlines of IP enforcement efforts to stop the spread of counterfeit goods both domestically and internationally. By raising the awareness of Royal Thai Customs...

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May 21, 2013

Plant Variety Protection: New Announcement Impacts IP Rights and Profit Sharing

Prateep Naboriboon

In Thailand, the Plant Varieties Protection Act B.E. 2542 (1999) provides protection for plant varieties that possess novelty, stability, uniformity, and distinctiveness. Once protected, the...

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May 20, 2013

Thailand Trademark Update: Implementing the 10th Edition of the Nice Classification System

Kasama Sriwatanakul

Thailand is not a contracting party to the “Nice Agreement Concerning the International Classification of Goods and Services for the Purposes of the Registration of Marks,” and the Thai Trademark...

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May 17, 2013

Employee Inventions and Creativity: Ownership and Compensation

Areeya Pornwiriyangkura

With Thailand making the transition to a creative economy, and employers now recognizing the importance of employee creativity, it has become very important for managers to know the principles of...

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May 15, 2013

Combating IP Infringement under the Anti-Money Laundering Act

Sukontip Jitmongkolthong, Areeya Pornwiriyangkura

Thailand’s Anti-Money Laundering Act has been amended to include “intellectual property crime” as a predicate offense, resulting in new mechanisms for combating IP infringement.

Although...

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