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Tra Thi Thanh Tran is a trademark executive with T&G Law Firm LLC (TGVN), a licensed law firm and IP agent that partners with Tilleke & Gibbins for local filings in Vietnam. Tra has been working in the trademark field since 2012, and handles all aspects of trademark prosecution, including searches, filing applications, handling appeals, oppositions, and cancellations, and liaising with the Intellectual Property Office of Vietnam.
Tra holds an LLB from Hanoi Law University, and has completed the lawyer training program at the Judicial Academy of Vietnam. She spent five years with one of Vietnam’s leading domestic firms before joining Tilleke & Gibbins, and has gained considerable knowledge and practical experience in the protection of intellectual property rights.
- Successfully overcame office action refusals on descriptiveness grounds for a flagship trademark of one of the world’s leading technology companies.
- Successfully overcame office action refusals on descriptiveness grounds for multiple trademarks of a world-renowned consumer electronics company.
- Advised and represented one of the world’s largest tobacco companies in protecting its trademark portfolio in Vietnam, including filing trademark applications, overcoming office actions on both absolute and relative grounds, and opposing numerous pending third-party marks similar to the client’s trademarks.
- Successfully overcame a refusal based on a cited earlier mark against a key trademark of a world-renowned Italian company.
- Advised and represented a multinational pharmaceutical company in successfully overcoming provisional refusals and opposing third-party trademark applications.
- Successfully opposed numerous pending trademark applications on the grounds of confusing similarity with clients’ trademarks.