Contributors

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China

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Grace W Li

Grace Li received her BA degree from Beijing Foreign Studies University and her master’s degree of law from Hong Kong City University. She has been practising in the IP field since 1998, starting her career with China Patent Agent (HK) Ltd in 1998 before joining Kangxin Partners PC in 2004. She now heads the firm’s trademark practice. Ms Li is particularly experienced in the prosecution and enforcement of trademarks, IP customs protection, and administrative actions against infringement. She also specializes in IP litigation and domain name dispute resolution. Considered a leading expert in her field, Ms Li frequently gives lectures on intellectual property and advises clients on IP protection strategies.

 

Czech Republic

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Petr Kusy

Petr Kusy has been with the leading Czech IP law firm C?ermák Hor?ejš Mate?jka since January 2007. As well as handling patent and trademark matters for many prominent clients, Mr Kusy has been involved in several major pharmaceutical disputes. This practical experience and his academic common law background means that Mr Kusy can provide C?ermák Hor?ejš Mate?jka and its clients with a unique approach to solving complex legal problems.

 

European Union

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Alexander Denoon

Alexander Denoon is a member of the IP group with more than 13 years’ experience. He has both a law degree and a science degree (human genetics). Mr Denoon has spent more than five years in-house with technology companies including Biotech Australia, Redfern Broadband Networks and Silverbrook Research. As general counsel and company secretary, he managed and implemented IP strategies. Mr Denoon advises clients in relation to the protection and exploitation of IP rights. This ranges from representing clients in respect of the IP aspects of merger and acquisition transactions to licensing, joint ventures, development agreements and sponsorship agreements. He co-wrote the chapter on intellectual property in The Law and Regulation of Medicines (edited by Dr Peter Feldschreiber) published by Oxford University Press in 2008.

Montserrat Lopez-Bellosta

Montserrat López-Bellosta is a partner of Clifford Chance’s IP group, and litigation and dispute resolution department. She received her law degree from the Autonomous University of Barcelona in 1992 and later obtained a master’s degree in Community law. Ms López-Bellosta has over 12 years’ experience in commercial litigation, arbitration, IP litigation and pharmaceutical law. She lectures on private international, IP and pharmaceutical law. Ms López-Bellosta acts for IP rights owners, defending and enforcing their IP rights in Spain, coordinating litigation and expert evidence in different countries. She has been involved in multi-jurisdictional leading IP cases, successfully obtaining evidence of IP rights infringement (including customs seizures and different proceedings before the civil courts) and interim injunctions preventing infringing products from being launched onto the market.

 

Finland

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Petri Eskola

Petri Eskola graduated in 1992 from the University of Helsinki. He has a wide experience in IP law and practice, and frequently advises clients on all IP matters. He represents clients in related litigation and arbitration. In addition, he advises in all major areas of business law, including contract, corporate, distributorship and competition law. Mr Eskola joined Backström & Co in 1998 and is a partner of the firm. He was admitted to the Finnish Bar in 2001. He speaks Finnish, Swedish and English.

 

France

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Aurélia Marie

Aurélia Marie is a French industrial property attorney and a European trademark attorney. She obtained a master’s degree in business law in 1985 and a post-graduate professional degree (Diplôme d’études supérieures spécialisées) in international contract law and practice in 1986 from the University of Paris X. She completed her certificate of qualification to practise as a barrister (Certificat d’aptitude à la profession d’avocat) in 1987 and her postgraduate professional degree in industrial property law in 1988. She began her career in the agreements and IP department of a large industrial business. She then practised as an attorneyat- law in an IP law firm, before joining Cabinet Beau de Loménie in 1993. She became a partner of the firm in 2003. Ms Marie specializes in trademarks, designs, unfair competition and copyright. She is also experienced in conducting due diligence reviews of trademarks and designs portfolios. She speaks English and French.

 

Germany

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Michael Best

Michael Best is an attorney-at-law based in Frankfurt am Main. He studied law in Mainz, Germany and in Dijon, France. He worked as a scientific assistant at the University of Mainz for three years and wrote a doctoral thesis in trademark and unfair competition law during that time. He then worked as an auditing assistant at a large German auditing firm for two years before he became in-house counsel in the trademarks department of the chemical and pharmaceutical company Hoechst AG in 1992. He became deputy head of that department in 1997. In 1998, together with Robert Freitag, he founded the law firm Freitag & Best, which specializes in IP matters, in particular trademark protection and enforcement. Mr Best is a regular speaker at IP conferences and is a member of the International Trademark Association, the European Communities Trademark Association (ECTA), the Pharmaceutical Trademark Group and other IP organizations.

 

India

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Aditi Verma

Aditi Verma is an associate attorney in the trademarks department of Krishna & Saurastri. Her practice areas include trademarks and copyrights. She deals with matters relating to oppositions and rectification of trademarks, and advises clients on registrability and registration procedures of trademarks, service marks, copyrights and designs. Ms Verma has a master’s in law with a specialization in IP rights from the National Law University, Jodhpur. She obtained a gold medal for attaining the highest percentage in the LLB programme in 2006. She also holds a certificate for completing the General Course on Intellectual Property from the World Intellectual Property Organization Worldwide Academy.

Kavita Mundkur Nigam

Kavita D Mundkur is an associate attorney in the trademarks department of Krishna & Saurastri. Her practice areas include trademark, copyright and design. She has also worked on company mergers and acquisitions, private equity, project finance and foreign investment. Ms Mundkur holds a bachelor’s degree in law from Government Law College, Mumbai and a bachelor’s degree in commerce from Narsee Monjee College of Commerce & Economics. She is registered with the Bar Council of India. She holds a Diploma in Cyber Laws from the Asian School of Cyber Laws, Pune. Ms Mundkur also has a Diplome de Langue Française, a degree in French organized by the Alliance Française de Bombay.

 

Indonesia

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Brett McGuire

Brett McGuire is an executive of Rouse and country manager of Rouse’s Indonesian office. He graduated with an LLB-BA from Otago University, New Zealand. He deals with almost all aspects of IP law in Indonesia. His areas of particular experience include strategic planning to combat counterfeiting and IP theft generally. He is an adviser to the International Pharmaceutical Manufacturer Group on strategies for addressing parallel imports and counterfeit drugs.

 

Ireland

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Alistair Payne

Alistair Payne is head of Matheson Ormsby Prentice’s IP Group and a partner in the firm’s Commercial Litigation and Dispute Resolution Group. He leads an integrated contentious and commercial IP team. He and his team advise a wide range of local and multinational clients in relation to, among other things, transactional and contentious matters in all areas of IP law. In particular, he acts for brand owners in trademark, passing off and anticounterfeiting matters; advises pharmaceutical companies, research institutes, government agencies and tertiary institutions in patent ownership and infringement disputes; and represents clients in copyright licensing and ownership disputes, as well as matters concerning registered and unregistered design rights. Mr Payne provides strategic brand and trademark protection advice and implements this advice through the firm’s trademark agents, MOP Trademark Advisers. Both a World Intellectual Property Organization and an ‘.eu’ domain name dispute resolution panellist, he also regularly acts for clients seeking to protect their domain names, and advises on internet law issues.

 

Israel

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Kfir Luzzatto

Kfir Luzzatto was born and educated in Italy. After serving in the Israeli army he acquired his technical education in Israel, where he received a doctorate in chemical engineering. He has been awarded a number of academic awards, including the Landau Award for Research. He has taught university courses on patents and technology, and is the author of numerous technical, scientific and professional articles, including an educational series of articles in the Hebrew press. Mr Luzzatto is the author of The World of Patents, published in 2002 in Israel by Globes Press. In addition to his professional activity, he publishes literary work. His personal website is www.kfir-l.com.

Ronen Sasson

Ronen Sasson holds a law degree from Tel-Aviv University and a master’s degree in law from the University of London (focusing on intellectual property). He has been a member of the Israeli Bar Association since 1990. Mr Sasson joined Luzzatto & Luzzatto in 2005 with a wide experience in IP law. He works in the legal department at the Tel-Aviv office of the firm. He deals with various aspects of trademarks and patents, including opposition and cancellation proceedings, as well as trademark prosecution and enforcement.

 

Italy

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Daniele Caneva

Daniele Caneva graduated from the University of Milan having written a thesis on the Antitrust Law. Since 1996 he has taught on IP issues for the IP department of the University of Milan. The founder of Caneva & Associati, he deals exclusively with IP litigation before national and international courts. Mr Caneva is a member of major associations in the IP field, including the Italian anti-counterfeiting association INDICAM, the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI), the Società Italiana per lo Studio della Proprietà Intellettuale, the International Trademark Association, the International League of Competition Law and the Union des Avocats Européens. He regularly contributes to IP magazines.

 

Malaysia

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Kherk Ying Chew

Chew Kherk Ying is an advocate and solicitor of the High Court of Malaya in Malaysia and Singapore. She heads the Intellectual Property Practice Group in Wong & Partners and has practised in the area of intellectual property since 1988. She was voted by Asia Law & Practice as one of Asia’s leading IP lawyers in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 and is the principal author of the Intellectual Property Laws of Malaysia published by CCH. Ms Chew is also one of the panellists appointed by the Regional Centre for Arbitration Kuala Lumpur to handle disputes for the Malaysian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Service. Ms Chew is a past president of the Licensing Executives Society Malaysia, a committee member of the Intellectual Property Committee of the Bar Council Malaysia and also the EXCO Member of the Malaysian Chapter of AIPPI (the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property).

 

Mexico

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Victor Ramirez

Victor Ramirez obtained his law degree from the Pan-American University in Mexico City in 2000. He completed a postgraduate major in IP law at the same university in 2005 and attended the IP Summer Institute at the Franklin Pierce Law Centre in 2007. As an associate at Olivares & Cia, Mr Ramirez has extensive experience litigating industrial property matters, at first instance as well as at the appellate level before the Federal Court of Tax and Administrative Affairs. Mr Ramirez also regularly provides legal opinions on negotiations relating to IP matters and prepares licence, assignment, franchise and technology transfer agreements. He also runs analyses and reports on the availability of trademarks, slogans and commercial names.

 

Pakistan

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Samiya Fikree

Samiya Fikree graduated with an LLB from SM Law College, Karachi. She joined the firm in June 2001 and has since been primarily involved in IP matters, including trademark issues and IP-related contracts. She also handles various other corporate and commercial law matters, including privatizations, mergers and acquisitions, de-listings of companies from the stock exchange and antitrust issues. In addition, Ms Fikree has developed industry standards for the petroleum sector, and advised a number of national and international clients in various fields, including beverages and foods, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, edible oils, soaps and detergents, tea and the health sector. She has also participated in litigation proceedings with regard to various banking cases, commercial and civil cases and family law matters while assisting senior counsel in the various courts of Pakistan up to the Supreme Court.

 

Poland

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Malgorzata Zielińska-Łazarowicz

Malgorzata Zielinska-Lazarowicz has a master’s of law degree from Warsaw University, where she also completed postgraduate studies in IP and European law. Since 2008 she has been a patent and trademark attorney at Patpol focusing on litigation proceedings and enforcement of industrial property rights. Mrs Zielinska- Lazarowicz specializes in patents, designs and trademarks. Being a member of the legal department at Patpol, she also has experience in rendering professional advice on combating unfair competition and copyright issues, as well as EU law.

Tomasz Rychlicki

Tomasz Rychlicki is a lawyer with Patpol. He is a graduate of the Centre of European Law at the University of Gda´nsk. He also studied international IP law as part of a master’s of law programme at the Chicago- Kent College of Law. Mr Rychlicki handles copyright, trademark and domain name cases, as well as customs seizures. He is a member of the editorial board (copyright, related rights and designs, including sui generis database rights) of the Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice and a country correspondent for Computer and Telecommunications Law Review.

 

Romania

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Cristian Nastase

Cristian Na;stase is an IP attorney with extensive experience in advising and representing clients in trademark and design matters. He is a graduate of the University of Bucharest School of Law. Mr Na;stase is an active member of the International Trademark Association and is a member of the European & Central Asia Legislation & Regulatory Analysis Subcommittee. He deals with almost all major IP issues, including prosecution, litigation, negotiation and mediation procedures.

 

Thailand

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Fabrice Mattei

Fabrice Mattei joined Rouse in 2000 to set up and manage the office in Bangkok. He initially trained in France with Gide Loyrette Nouel. He then moved to London where he worked for the law firms Middleton Potts and Donne Mileham & Haddock. His experience includes managing IP protection and litigation programmes, patents and trademarks portfolio management, biotechnology, biopiracy and bioprospecting. Mr Mattei advises various pharmaceutical companies and life science firms on patent protection and enforcement. He also provides advice to several governmental organizations on biodiversity issues, including the Thai government on the protection and enforcement of Thai jasmine rice ‘Hom Mali’. Mr Mattei has conducted research for a number of bodies on the protection of IP rights in Southeast Asia. From 2005 to 2007, he was retained by the European Patent Office and the Central Intellectual Property & International Trade Court of Thailand to train judges and public prosecutors.

 

United Kingdom

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Arty Rajendra

Arty Rajendra is a partner of IP law firm Rouse Legal and a member of its dispute resolution team in London. She has extensive experience of design, patent and trademark disputes (including disputes relating to pharmaceutical parallel imports) and has acted in a number of UK reported cases.

Ewen Mitchell

Ewen Mitchell is a qualified UK trademark attorney and is now training as a solicitor with Rouse’s dispute resolution team. He has in-house experience of trademark clearance in the pharmaceutical and consumer healthcare sector.

 

United States

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Julie A Katz

Julie Katz is a partner in Husch Blackwell Sanders Welsh & Katz’s IP and IP litigation departments. She graduated from the University of Illinois College of Law, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, United States. Her practice consists of all aspects of IP litigation, including pharmaceutical patent infringement. She also practices in matters of non-contentious trademark, copyright and design protection. Ms Katz has a focus on anti-counterfeiting protection for the firm’s clients and works regularly with US Customs. She is an active member of both the International Trademark Association and the Pharmaceutical Trademark Group.

 

The information provided above was correct at the time of publishing.