Director

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

About Paul

Areas of Practice

Paul's practice is predominantly in intellectual property litigation. He handles pre and post trade mark registration matters and all aspects of intellectual property litigation, including trade mark oppositions and rectification actions, trade mark infringement litigation, passing off cases, copyright and design infringements, breach of confidential information cases, domain name recovery under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) and trade mark enforcement cases. Paul has acted for individual and institutional clients in diverse industries, including software companies, technology companies, health and pharmaceuticals, food and beverage, and leisure and entertainment. Paul is also experienced in corporate IP matters, having drafted and reviewed licensing and franchise agreements relating to intellectual property assets.

Experience

Paul is experienced in both the contentious as well as non-contentious aspects of Intellectual Property practice. Some of the matters he has been involved in include:

• First local case on invalidation under the Singapore Trade Marks Act 1998 (Sime Darby Edible Products Ltd v Ngo Chew Hong Edible Oil Pte Ltd [2000] SGHC 145).
• Domain name recovery under the UDRP for singaporecablevision.com (WIPO D2000-0674).
• Resisting pre-action discovery by Fila in a multi-jurisdictional trade mark counterfeiting case (Fila Sport S.P.A v Ramesh Tulsidas Wadhiwani & Anor [2002] SGHC 35).
• Trade mark rectification actions for Hugo Boss AG (Reemtsma Cigarttenfabriken GMBH v Hugo Boss AG (No 2) [2003] SGHC 205).
• Groundless threats action under Patents Act (Bean Innovations Pte Ltd and Another v Flexon (Pte) Ltd [2001] SGCA 42).
• First local case on revocation for non-use under Singapore Trade Marks Act 1998 (Bluestar Exchange (Singapore) Pte Ltd v Teoh Keng Long and Others [2003] SGHC 169).
• Trade Mark Infringement action for Richemont against a local Company (Richemont International SA v DA VINCI Collections Pte Ltd [2006] SGHC 150).
• Appeal to the High Court against the Trade Mark Registry’s decision to allow Uni-Charm Kabushiki Kaisha’s application to register the trademark “Careree” for its incontinence products in light of Johnson & Johnson’s “Carefree” mark in Singapore (Johnson & Johnson v Uni-Charm Kabushiki Kaisha (Uni-Charm Corporation) [2006] SGHC 241).
• Trade mark and Brand enforcement for major international corporations.
• Reviewing and drafting licensing, distribution and franchising agreements for major corporations.