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 Contactsort icon

Wipaphat Swangphol

Associate Bangkok

wipaphat.s@tilleke.com

+66 2653 5740

Jitluedee Siemanond

Patent Specialist Bangkok

jitluedee.s@tilleke.com

+66 2653 5739

Nawawan Intarapintuwat

Associate Bangkok

nawawan.i@tilleke.com

+66 2653 5738

Siriwan Phentalay

Associate Bangkok

siriwan.p@tilleke.com

+66 2653 5737

Chongdee Netthanomsak

Trademark Specialist Bangkok

chongdee.n@tilleke.com

+66 2653 5736

Sonthaya Sunkapongse

Patent Specialist Bangkok

sonthaya.s@tilleke.com

+66 2653 5735

Thidawan Sirikul

Trademark Specialist Bangkok

thidawan.s@tilleke.com

+66 2653 5734

Supatra Watanaworakitkul

Trademark Specialist Bangkok

supatra.w@tilleke.com

+66 2653 5733

Salil Siriwat

Patent Specialist Bangkok

salil.s@tilleke.com

+66 2653 5670

Jeffrey J. Blatt

Of Counsel Bangkok

jeffrey.b@tilleke.com

+66 2653 5644

Date Title
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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October 20, 2010

Tilleke & Gibbins Wins Trademark Firm of the Year

Darani Vachanavuttivong, Alan Adcock

On October 20, 2010, Asia IP awarded Tilleke & Gibbins the distinctions of Trademark Firm of the Year for Thailand and Patent Firm of the Year for Thailand.

Asia IP...

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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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April 30, 2010

Chambers & Partners Recognizes Firm's Expertise in Intellectual Property

Darani Vachanavuttivong, Alan Adcock

On April 30, 2010, Chambers & Partners recognized Tilleke & Gibbins’ expertise in Intellectual Property with a Tier 1 ranking in Thailand in Chambers Asia 2010.  In addition...

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January 28, 2011

Firm’s IP Experts Present on Trade Secrets

Nandana Indananda, Siraprapha Rungpry

IP specialists, Nandana Indananda, Partner, and Siraprapha Rungpry, Consultant, presented on “Protecting and Enforcing Business Trade Secrets,” at the fifth IP Lunch Talk at the Tilleke...

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October 23, 2007

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

Intellectual property rights owners are increasingly feeling the pressure from the counterfeit goods that are invading the global market. Societies worldwide also suffer, as countless people are...

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October 29, 2007

‘Concurrent Use’ Theory Implemented for the First Time by the IP&IT Court

Nuttaphol Arammuang

In Grotto SpA v. Department of Intellectual Property, the Central Intellectual Property and International Trade Court has issued an extremely rare judgment implementing the theory of '...

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November 13, 2007

Intellectual Property Awareness: The Key to Success in Thailand

The competitive success of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations when confronting the challenges of rising economic powerhouses, such as India and China, will depend significantly on how...

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December 4, 2007

Political Uncertainty Affects IP Owners

Areeya Pornwiriyangkura

Ever since the military coup of 2006, Thailand has been subject to many dis­ruptions. The Council for National Security dissolved the constitution and appointed an interim civilian govern­ment in...

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December 4, 2007

Data Protection Under Trade Secrets Law

Siraprapha Rungpry

In 2002, Thailand adopted the Trade Secrets Act, which contains a provision intended to safeguard the confidenti­ality of marketing approval data submitted to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA...

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