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

Prateep Naboriboon

Associate Bangkok

prateep.n@tilleke.com

+66 2653 5749

Rungroj Kobkitwattanakul

Associate Bangkok

rungroj.k@tilleke.com

+66 2653 5864

Siriwan Phentalay

Associate Bangkok

siriwan.p@tilleke.com

+66 2653 5737

Somboon Earterasarun

Associate Bangkok

somboon.e@tilleke.com

+66 2653 5744

Suebsiri Taweepon

Associate Bangkok

suebsiri.t@tilleke.com

+66 2653 5877

Thang Duc Nguyen

Associate Hanoi

thang.n@tilleke.com

+84 4 3772 5573

Threenuch Chatmahasuwan

Associate Bangkok

threenuch.c@tilleke.com

+66 2653 5885

Titikaan Ungbhakorn

Associate Bangkok

titikaan.u@tilleke.com

+66 2653 5747

Titirat Wattanachewanopakorn

Associate Bangkok

titirat.w@tilleke.com

+66 2653 5869

Wipaphat Swangphol

Associate Bangkok

wipaphat.s@tilleke.com

+66 2653 5740

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May 24, 2012

PLC Which Lawyer Ranks Tilleke & Gibbins’ Attorneys in Corporate and M&A, IP, and Tax

Piyanuj (Lui) Ratprasatporn, Michael K. Lee, Darani Vachanavuttivong, Alan Adcock, Sriwan Puapondh

In PLC Which Lawyer’s 2012 publication, the following Tilleke & Gibbins lawyers have been recommended for their expertise in the relevant practice areas:

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May 25, 2012

Darani Vachanavuttivong to Present on Intellectual Property Issues for Investors in Myanmar

Darani Vachanavuttivong

On June 21, 2012, at the Pathuwan Princess Hotel, Bangkok, Darani Vachanavuttivong, co-managing partner at Tilleke & Gibbins, will be speaking about relevant intellectual property issues at a...

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May 25, 2012

Tilleke & Gibbins Museum of Counterfeit Goods to be Featured on Bangkok Metro News

Yuwadee Thean-ngarm

An interview with Yuwadee Thean-ngarm, an attorney-at-law in the Tilleke & Gibbins intellectual property team, will be featured in the Bangkok Metro News, produced by Nine Plus...

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May 29, 2012

Tilleke & Gibbins Partners Discuss the Thai Pharmaceutical Industry

Darani Vachanavuttivong, Tiziana Sucharitkul, Alan Adcock

The Thai pharmaceutical industry is characterized by its expanding yet challenging landscape. Amidst growing medical tourism and strong R&D centers in the Asia Pacific region, issues related...

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May 29, 2012

Seminar for Healthcare Companies: Preparing for the ASEAN Economic Community

Somboon Earterasarun, Areeya Pornwiriyangkura

The ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), which will come into effect in 2015, will integrate the region’s economies and create a single market of 600 million consumers. All industries are bracing for...

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August 15, 2007

“No Patents on Life”: Patentability v. Morality and Medical Biotechnology Examination Practice in Thailand

As the development of new innovations in the field of medical biotechnology becomes ever more rapid, the patent offices of Japan, the United States, and Europe have combined efforts to better...

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August 15, 2007

Compulsory Licensing

Although the Thai government’s recent compulsory license initiatives have received a great deal of media attention, the concepts underlying compulsory licensing are still widely misunderstood....

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August 15, 2007

Rong Beer German Tawandang: Unique Restaurant and Its Newly Created Trademark

Srila Thongklang, Suebsiri Taweepon

When acquiring an existing business, the purchase is not limited to the land, the office accessories, or the client base. In addition to these material elements of a business, the brand, trade...

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August 15, 2007

Plant Variety Protection in Thailand

Prateep Naboriboon

A tension has arisen between the Thai tradition of freely exchanging seeds to develop new crops, on the one hand, and the development of intellectual property rights, on the other. This article...

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September 7, 2007

PCT Could Solve Patent Problems

Recently, Thai inventors have become increasingly interested in filing new patent applications both in Thailand and overseas. These inventors face an important question: What is the easiest, most...

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