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

Alan Adcock

Partner Bangkok

alan.a@tilleke.com

+66 2653 5871

Darani Vachanavuttivong

Partner Bangkok

darani.v@tilleke.com

+66 2653 5888

Nandana Indananda

Partner Bangkok

nandana.i@tilleke.com

+66 2653 5879

Srila Thongklang

Partner Bangkok

srila.t@tilleke.com

+66 2653 5529

Sukontip Jitmongkolthong

Partner Bangkok

sukontip.j@tilleke.com

+66 2653 5867

Thomas J. Treutler

Partner Hanoi

thomas.t@tilleke.com

+84 4 3772 5633

Jeffrey J. Blatt

Of Counsel Bangkok

jeffrey.b@tilleke.com

+66 2653 5644

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

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June 13, 2013

Alan Adcock to Speak on Franchising at AMCHAM Thailand Event

Alan Adcock

Alan Adcock, partner and deputy director of the Tilleke & Gibbins intellectual property and regulatory affairs group, will be attending a joint meeting of the American Chamber of Commerce’s...

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June 11, 2013

Thomas Treutler to Speak at U.S. Embassy on “The American Way of Doing Business”

Thomas J. Treutler

Thomas J. Treutler, partner and managing director of the Tilleke & Gibbins Vietnam offices, will speak on “IPR – The Hidden Value of a Business” at a June 15 seminar organized by the U.S....

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June 10, 2013

Asian Legal Business IP Rankings: Tilleke & Gibbins Tier 1 in Vietnam and Spotlighted in Thailand

Asian Legal Business has published its 2013 intellectual property rankings, listing Tilleke & Gibbins as a “Tier 1” firm in Vietnam for our Patent and Trademark/Copyright services and...

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June 5, 2013

Chemistry World: The Threat of Compulsory Licenses in Thailand

Siraprapha Rungpry

The use of compulsory licenses by governments has always been a contentious issue, as it seems to fly in the face of what intellectual property rights set out to do. Compulsory licenses allow...

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June 4, 2013

Crossing International Boundaries: Swedish Newspaper Features Museum of Counterfeit Goods

Titirat Wattanachewanopakorn

The Tilleke & Gibbins Museum of Counterfeit Goods has been featured in Svenska Dagbladet, a widely circulated newspaper published on a daily basis in Sweden. The article examines...

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August 16, 2012

Bolar Provision Revisited: Thailand’s Approach in the Age of Patent Expiry

James Evans

Usually, during the life of a patent, acts of manufacturing or importation are considered an infringement of the patent owner’s rights. The “Bolar provision” exempts from infringement all uses of...

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July 11, 2012

Guide to Doing Business in Thailand for Japanese Investors

Pimvimol (June) Vipamaneerut, Sriwan Puapondh, Chaiwat Keratisuthisathorn, Charunun Sathitsuksomboon, Ampolphan Sriduangchan, Kobkit Thienpreecha, Titikaan Ungbhakorn

This Japanese-language Guide to Doing Business in Thailand was prepared by Tilleke & Gibbins in collaboration with Nishimura & Asahi, the Lex Mundi member firm for Japan. Written for...

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July 6, 2012

Thai Supreme Court Clarifies When Mark Is Suggestive, Rather Than Descriptive

Parichart Monaiyakul

This article first appeared on WTR Daily, part of World Trademark Review, in May 2012. For further information, please go 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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June 29, 2012

Patent Maps Provide a Key Tool for Strategic Decisions

Approximately half of all patented inventions are never commercially exploited. This can be attributed to the several difficulties faced by companies that rely heavily on research and innovation,...

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