Baker McKenzie‘s Hong Kong-based team is well-versed at advising clients on contentious and non-contentious trade mark, patent and copyright matters, and forms a key component of the firm’s huge global IP offering. Although she is active for clients across a range of industry sectors, team head Isabella Liu is particularly skilled at advising life sciences companies – in part due to her professional background in biochemistry and pharmacology – both on patent prosecution and enforcement work, as well as IP transactional work in the space. The ’outstanding’ Andrew Sim is the principal contact for litigation and regularly works alongside practitioners in Mainland China to enforce the IPR of many well-known brands. Other key contacts include senior partner Loke-Khoon Tan, who is vastly experienced at advising consumer goods and retail clients on the protection and enforcement of their IPR; Ruby Chan, for trade mark portfolio management and commercial IP matters; and Grace Gao, who excels at handling commercial IP matters for TMT clients.
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Dr. Isabella Liu is a partner in the Firm's Intellectual Property and Technology Practice. She advises clients on matters relating to the creation, exploitation and protection of IP rights. She is also responsible for the local IP Group's China and Hong Kong patent prosecution matters. Previously, Dr. Isabella Liu was the head of the Firm's Asia Pacific Healthcare and Life Sciences Industry Group for three years, leading a team of legal experts in this field cross multiple practices in the region.
Dr. Liu is ranked as a leading lawyer in her field by top legal directories. She has been complimented by clients that she possesses "a superb ability to understand the most complex technologies" and was noted for "advis[ing] in a way that is very commercial and strategic."
Dr. Liu is also engaged as a regular guest lecturer by the University of Hong Kong's Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy to share her expertise on intellectual property in the pharmaceutical industry with HKU students.
Dr. Liu’s practice focuses on a broad range of IP issues, including patent and trademark prosecution, IP licensing, technology transfers, brand acquisitions and administrative and civil enforcement of IP rights. She also advises clients in the healthcare sector on a whole host of regulatory issues relevant to the industry.
Languages
English; Mandarin
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- 'Ruby Chan provided us with very good trade mark registration global strategies, to ensure appropriate coverage and protection worldwide while keeping the costs under control.' 'Andrew Sim is outstanding.'
Key clients
- Rockit Global Limited Biozeal LLC (dba "ChildLife") Starbucks Corporation
Work highlights
Assisted Starbucks Corporation to analyse the circumstances and take preventative actions against the infringing activities of a PRC-based company.
Represented Starbucks on filing the oppositions and invalidation actions against its marks based on the prior copyright subsisting in the design and all of the actions have been successful.
Representing Rockit in a court action based on trade mark infringement and unfair competition claims against a domestic company, Ningbo Dong Run Guo Bao Trading Co., Ltd.