Drew & Napier LLC

Intellectual Property

Director, Intellectual Property

Yvonne actively practices in all aspects of Intellectual Property (IP) work. She has more than a decade of legal experience in IP matters, and her clients include multinational and local companies alike.

On contentious IP matters, Yvonne’s key areas include trade marks and copyright infringement, and passing off. She is regularly involved in trade mark opposition proceedings, and has handled criminal raids of counterfeit goods as well as domain name recovery claims under the Singapore Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (SDRP).

Yvonne’s legal experience extends to trade mark registration and brand management advisory services, as well as corporate IP matters, such as the drafting and review of licensing and franchise agreements relating to IP assets.

Yvonne is the co-Chairperson of the Asian Patent Attorneys Association (APAA) Publications Team, Vice-President of the APAA, Singapore Group, and a member of the Institute of Singapore Trade Mark Agents. She is also a Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators, and a Certified Patent Valuation Analyst. She also contributed to a number of articles on IP, including Atkin’s Court Forms – Singapore (Issue 15), Copyright, Lexis Nexis.

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Assessor, Panel of Assessors for COVID-19 Temporary Relief, Ministry of Law Fellow, Singapore Institute of Arbitrators (SIArb) Vice-President, Asian Patent Attorneys Association (APAA), Singapore Group Member, Executive Committee, Institute of Singapore Trade Mark Agents (ISTMA) Member, Law Society of Singapore Member, Singapore Academy of Law Member, Law Society of England and Wales Member of International Trademark Association (INTA)

LL.B. (Hons), National University of Singapore (1998) Admitted to the Singapore Bar (1999) Admitted as a Solicitor in England and Wales (2004)