Building an Effective Global IP Strategy – Mitigating Risks to your IP Portfolio and Managing IP Disputes

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In today’s global economy, intellectual property remains a cornerstone of competitive advantage. Developing an effective IP strategy is essential to safeguarding innovation, driving business growth, and maintaining a competitive edge.  This panel will focus on portfolio risk assessment, licensing, and litigation strategies, and share best practices on building an effective global IP strategy – both for multinational companies seeking to protect and defend their IP portfolios in APAC, and for APAC companies seeking to scale up their IP portfolios. Join us to gain insight on proactive risk management of IP assets and be equipped with practical knowledge to develop and implement a cross-jurisdictional IP strategy.

Speakers

Gordon Milner – Partner, Technology Transactions, Morrison Foerster, Singapore

Gordon Milner focuses his practice on advising clients about intellectual property, licensing, outsourcing, and technology transactions.

He has advised clients in the IT, entertainment, telecommunications, financial services, manufacturing, and life sciences industries on a wide spectrum of technology and IP-related matters. His practice ranges from major projects, such as the establishment of the entire technology infrastructure for a new national PRC bank, through the use of AI tools to develop videogame assets, to the creation of a new Singapore-headquartered outsourced design, manufacturing, and logistics system for a global footwear brand.

Gordon has particular experience in cross-border commercial intellectual property transactions in Asia, and has worked with clients on a variety of projects, from traditional technology transfer arrangements to complex collaborative design and development partnerships. He also has substantial experience in providing data privacy, technology export and other operational regulatory advice to clients in mainland China, Hong Kong, and the Asia Pacific region.

Yi-Jun Kang – Associate, International Arbitration, Morrison Foerster, Singapore

Yi-Jun Kang specialises in complex, cross-border commercial litigation and arbitration, focusing on shareholder, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, intellectual property and joint venture disputes. She regularly represents conglomerates, multi-national corporations, private equity firms, and global corporate clients in commercial arbitrations conducted under the SIAC, HKIAC, ICC, LCIA, and UNCITRAL rules and seated in Singapore, Hong Kong, and London.

Yi-Jun is qualified in Singapore and England and Wales, and she is bilingual in English and Mandarin Chinese. Yi-Jun is also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, and Assistant Editor for Southeast Asia of the Kluwer Arbitration Blog.

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