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 Officesort icon Contact

Hassana Chira-aphakul

Associate Bangkok

hassana.c@tilleke.com

+66 2653 5881

Hiranrat Chakartnarodom

Associate Bangkok

hiranrat.c@tilleke.com

+66 2653 5763

Inthupim Chokwaranun

Associate Bangkok

inthupim.c@tilleke.com

+66 2653 5880

James Evans

Consultant Bangkok

james.e@tilleke.com

+66 2653 5886

Jeffrey J. Blatt

Of Counsel Bangkok

jeffrey.b@tilleke.com

+66 2653 5644

Jitluedee Siemanond

Patent Specialist Bangkok

jitluedee.s@tilleke.com

+66 2653 5739

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

Ketsarin Buaroy

Associate Bangkok

ketsarin.b@tilleke.com

+66 2653 5756

Date Title
April 11, 2012

Sukontip Jitmongkolthong Presents on IP Issues for the Automotive Industry

Sukontip Jitmongkolthong

Tilleke & Gibbins attorney Sukontip Jitmongkolthong recently participated in the 8th Federation of Asian Motorcycle Industries Intellectual Property Rights Symposium, organized by the Thai...

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April 12, 2012

IP Group Recognized Among Top Practices in Asia by Asian Legal Business

The Tilleke & Gibbins intellectual property team has been recognized among the top 20 IP practices in Asia by Asian Legal Business (ALB). In its recent IP survey, ALB ranked...

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April 19, 2012

Tilleke & Gibbins Partnering with AmCham for World IP Day Event in Ho Chi Minh City

Thomas J. Treutler, Loc Xuan Le

To commemorate World Intellectual Property Day, the American Chamber of Commerce in Ho Chi Minh City and Tilleke & Gibbins are joining forces to host a seminar on counterfeit goods and...

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April 26, 2012

Law Business Research Recognizes Three Tilleke & Gibbins Life Sciences Practitioners

Srila Thongklang, Thomas J. Treutler

Three members of the Tilleke & Gibbins team have been named to The International Who’s Who of Life Sciences Lawyers 2012. Published by Law Business Research, the official research...

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April 27, 2012

Tilleke & Gibbins World IP Day Events Draw Media Coverage

Thomas J. Treutler, Loc Xuan Le

The World IP Day events held this week in Hanoi and...

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June 5, 2007

The Question of Standing to Bring an Action Before Thailand’s Administrative Court

Siraprapha Rungpry

This article examines the ability of industry associations to seek legal remedies standing from the Administrative Court in relation to the lawfulness of an exercise of administrative authority by...

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June 15, 2007

Innovative Trademark Protection Strategies

Suebsiri Taweepon

Trademark law in Thailand has been designed as a tool for the protection of brands, logos, or marks used by their owners in connection with their products and services. Despite this protection,...

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July 23, 2007

Trouble Looms in Amendments to Patent Act

Siraprapha Rungpry

The draft amendment to the Patent Act proposed by the Department of Intellectual Property includes several reforms and new additions to the current law. One of the most prominent changes which...

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July 23, 2007

Getting the Black Market to Knock It Off: Enforcing Trademark Rights in Thailand (Part I of II)

Intellectual property rights owners are increasingly feeling the pressure and seeing revenue losses due to competition from the counterfeit goods that are invading the global market. The global...

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July 23, 2007

Thailand’s Policy on Pharmaceutical Licenses Puts Long-Term Development at Risk

Recent meetings between U.S. business interests and the Thai Ministry of Public Health painted a grim picture for the American reaction to Thailand’s broad-based imposition of compulsory licenses...

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