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 Positionsort icon Office Contact

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

Hassana Chira-aphakul

Associate Bangkok

hassana.c@tilleke.com

+66 2653 5881

Hien Thi Thu Vu

Associate Hanoi

thuhien.v@tilleke.com

+84 4 3772 5606

Hiranrat Chakartnarodom

Associate Bangkok

hiranrat.c@tilleke.com

+66 2653 5763

Inthupim Chokwaranun

Associate Bangkok

inthupim.c@tilleke.com

+66 2653 5880

Yuwadee Thean-ngarm

Associate Bangkok

yuwadee.t@tilleke.com

+66 2653 5875

Kanjana Pumichatpong

Associate Bangkok

kanjana.p@tilleke.com

+66 2653 5745

Kasama Sriwatanakul

Associate Bangkok

kasama.s@tilleke.com

+66 2653 5758

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August 1, 2010

Asia IP Names Tilleke & Gibbins a Tier 1 Trademark Practice

Darani Vachanavuttivong, Alan Adcock

Asia IP named Tilleke & Gibbins a Tier 1 trademark practice in Thailand in its annual Trademark Survey.

The August 2010 issue of Asia IP features the results of...

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November 14, 2011

Asia IP Names Tilleke & Gibbins Firm of the Year for Patents and Trademarks

Asia IP, a leading magazine covering intellectual property issues in Asia, held its second annual Asia IP Awards ceremony on November 11, 2011. At the event, Tilleke & Gibbins was...

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January 23, 2013

Asia IP: Thailand Paves Way to Madrid

Darani Vachanavuttivong, Alan Adcock, James Evans

An article published by Asia IP, “Thailand Paves Way to Madrid,” describes the amendments to Thai laws that are being made to meet international standards. The article takes a detailed...

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February 19, 2013

Asia IP: Tilleke & Gibbins Ranked as Tier 1 Copyright Practice in Thailand

Darani Vachanavuttivong, Alan Adcock

In its first issue for 2013, Asia IP magazine has published its inaugural survey of the top copyright firms from across the Asia Pacific region. In the Thailand rankings, Tilleke & Gibbins has...

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October 6, 2010

Asialaw Profiles Honors the Firm’s IP Practice

Darani Vachanavuttivong, Alan Adcock

On October 6, 2010, Asialaw Profiles honored the firm’s IP practice with a Tier 1 ranking in Thailand. The firm’s Thailand practices were also distinguished in the following areas.

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January 26, 2010

Defendants Ordered to Stop Using Narry Name in Tailors Dispute

Nuttaphol Arammuang

Trade name protection in Thailand is provided under Section 18 of the Civil and Commercial Code. In Singh Suriyaammaritr v Narry Tailors Co Ltd (Case 4583/2552, November 24, 2009), the Supreme...

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July 14, 2008

Destruction Ceremonies in Thailand

Wiramrudee (Pink) Mokkhavesa

As part of the ongoing suppression of products that infringe intellectual prop­erty rights, government bureaus includ­ing ECOTEC police bureau, Customs ware­houses, and Customs bureaus at indi­vid...

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March 6, 2009

Destruction Ceremony Organized by DIP, Customs Department, ECD, and DSI

Sukontip Jitmongkolthong

This article describes a destruction ceremony held on December 17, 2008. As part of the ceremony, more than 1.6 million counterfeit goods were destroyed.

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March 31, 2008

Developments in Compulsory Licensing

Siraprapha Rungpry

A little more than a year ago, Thailand’s Ministry of Public Health, acting on behalf of a post-coup military-appointed admin­istration, decided to issue the first set of compulsory licenses on...

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September 30, 2008

Different Approaches in Evaluating Confusing Similarity

Parichart Monaiyakul, Srila Thongklang

When evaluating two possibly similar marks, the Registrar and the Board of Trademarks have a tendency to focus on specific elements of the marks that may be deemed similar. Usually, this means...

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