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.

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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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December 21, 2012

Chambers Asia Pacific Awards 2013: Tilleke & Gibbins Shortlisted for Thailand Law Firm of the Year

Darani Vachanavuttivong, Tiziana Sucharitkul

Recognizing the firm’s status in the upper echelon of the Thai legal market, Chambers and Partners has nominated Tilleke & Gibbins for its Thailand Law Firm of the Year award. The firm is one...

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February 25, 2011

Chambers Asia-Pacific 2011 Honors Seven Tilleke & Gibbins Attorneys

Cynthia M. Pornavalai, Darani Vachanavuttivong, Hassana Chira-aphakul, Michael K. Lee, Sriwan Puapondh, Thawat Damsa-ard, Thomas J. Treutler

On February 25, 2011, Chambers Asia-Pacific released its rankings for law firms and individual lawyers.  Based on thousands of interviews conducted by a team of 50+ full-time...

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March 1, 2013

Chambers Asia-Pacific 2013: Nine Tilleke & Gibbins Attorneys Listed as Leading Lawyers

Alan Adcock, Jeffrey J. Blatt, Thawat Damsa-ard, David Duncan, Michael K. Lee, Cynthia M. Pornavalai, Sriwan Puapondh, Thomas J. Treutler, Darani Vachanavuttivong

In 2013 edition of Chambers Asia-Pacific, nine attorneys at Tilleke & Gibbins have been individually recognized for their outstanding work on behalf of their clients over the past...

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March 1, 2013

Chambers Asia-Pacific 2013: Vietnam IP Team Ranked in Tier 1

Chambers Asia-Pacific 2013, an annual guide to the legal profession in the region, has ranked Tilleke & Gibbins as a Tier 1 intellectual property practice for this year. The...

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March 22, 2012

Check-In TV Program to Feature Museum of Counterfeit Goods

Wiramrudee (Pink) Mokkhavesa

The Tilleke & Gibbins Museum of Counterfeit Goods will be featured on Check-In travel show, a TV program on Channel 8 Free TV, produced by Sonix Youth. This program covers local...

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September 5, 2011

The International Comparative Legal Guide to: Patents 2012 – Thailand Chapter

Nandana Indananda

Presented in a Q&A format, the Thailand chapter of The International Comparative Legal Guide to: Patents 2012 provides a broad overview of Thai patent law. The authors review key...

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September 17, 2012

The International Comparative Legal Guide to: Patents 2013 – Thailand Chapter

Nandana Indananda, Nuttaphol Arammuang

The 3rd edition of The International Comparative Legal Guide to: Patents provides practical cross-border insight into patent law, across 31 jurisdictions, and is presented in Q&A form...

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June 29, 2011

The International Comparative Legal Guide to: Pharmaceutical Advertising 2011 – Vietnam Chapter

Dung Thi Kim Vu

Advertising of pharmaceutical products is heavily regulated in many jurisdictions, and Vietnam is no exception. The Vietnam chapter of The International Comparative Legal Guide to:...

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July 3, 2012

The International Comparative Legal Guide to: Pharmaceutical Advertising 2012 – Vietnam Chapter

Tu Ngoc Trinh

This article appeared in the 2012 edition of The International Comparative Legal Guide to: Pharmaceutical Advertising; published by...

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December 3, 2010

The Legal Problem of ‘Trade Dress’ Under the Trademark Act

Inthupim Chokwaranun

Thai courts have yet to determine whether “trade dress,” or the look and feel of a product’s packaging or presentation, should be legally protected under the Thai Trademark Act of 1991. In fact,...

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