LLB, Dagon University
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Khin Myo Myo Aye is a senior associate in Tilleke & Gibbins’ Yangon office. Her practice focuses on intellectual property matters in Myanmar, where she advises domestic and international clients on the acquisition, protection, commercialization, and enforcement of IP rights across a broad range of industries, including consumer goods, food and beverage, pharmaceuticals, technology, and manufacturing.
Khin assists clients on trademarks, industrial designs, copyrights, and emerging patent-related matters, including registration, prosecution, portfolio management, licensing, assignments, and strategic IP protection. She works with multinational corporations, regional businesses, and local enterprises to develop practical IP strategies aligned with their commercial objectives in Myanmar.
She is a certified IP representative recognized by Myanmar’s Intellectual Property Department (IPD) and is authorized to represent clients in trademark, industrial design, patent, and copyright filings, prosecutions, registrations, and related proceedings before the IPD.
Her experience includes managing local and international IP portfolios, conducting registrability assessments, advising on clearance and filing strategies, handling prosecution and regulatory compliance matters, and supporting IP protection and enforcement through infringement assessments, cease-and-desist actions, settlement negotiations, anti-counterfeiting measures, customs recordation, and border enforcement.
Before joining Tilleke & Gibbins, Khin practiced civil and criminal litigation and handled IP prosecution and enforcement matters at local and regional law firms in Myanmar. She holds an LLB from Dagon University and is an advocate admitted to the Supreme Court of the Union of Myanmar.
- Represented a major telecommunications company in the execution of its intellectual portfolio management strategy, including the registration of marks in several Asian countries.
- Acted on behalf of a brand owner in successful negotiations with an infringer, ultimately convincing the infringer to stop distributing and selling the counterfeit products, and recalling all distributed products from wholesale and retail outlets across Myanmar.
- Represented an international food and beverage outlet in enforcing its marks in Myanmar after a local company imitated the client’s marks. Following cease-and-desist action, the local entity changed its name and ceased the infringing activities.
- Assisted an international food manufacturer with enforcement actions against counterfeiters in Myanmar, including product-label review and liaison with the Myanmar Food and Drug Administration.
- Advised a Singapore-based multinational banking and financial services corporation on enforcing its IP rights in Myanmar against a third party’s unauthorized use of a mark identical to the client’s well-known mark in lodging a complaint with the Directorate of Investment and Company Administration, which resulted in DICA issuing a notice requiring the third party to change its local entity name.
- Managed local and international IP portfolios and coordinated multijurisdictional filing and protection strategies on trademark, industrial design, copyright, and patent-related matters.
- Advised clients in IP enforcement matters, including infringement disputes, anticounterfeiting actions, cease-and-desist campaigns, customs recordation, and border enforcement strategies for IP rights protection.