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Dr Stanley Lai, SC is the Head of the Intellectual Property practice at Allen & Gledhill LLP. Stanley is a specialist in all forms of Intellectual Property litigation and enforcement. He also maintains a commercial litigation practice, and regularly advises and represents clients on information technology disputes.
Stanley advises a large number of local and foreign clients on branding strategy, and general IP portfolio management and domain name protection. His practice has also extended to advising bio-medical and pharmaceutical companies on issues of regulatory/ethical compliance, clinical trials, product recall and product liability. Client quoted in AsiaLaw Profiles (2011) described Stanley as ‘“a great businessperson with a wealth of strategic ideas and is a smart legal professional.”’ Who’s Who Legal (2011) described Stanley as a ‘“very-well known”, “highly respectable” lawyer’ in Singapore. Chambers Asia (2012) has reported that Stanley “is universally regarded as one of Singapore’s foremost IP practitioners.” One client asserted that ‘“He is a very clever lawyer and a true gentleman. It’s always a pleasure to work with him.”’
Stanley is an Adjunct Associate Professor of the National University of Singapore, and teaches in the Faculty of Law and Faculty of Engineering. He also sits on the panel of adjudicators for the resolution of “.sg” domain name disputes under the Singapore Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy. In 2009, he was appointed to be an independent director of Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd (SGX-listed), in addition to his current director’s appointment in ST Aerospace Ltd. Stanley is a member of the Singapore Copyright Tribunal. He was recently appointed Deputy Chairman of the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore with effect from 1 October 2011.
Stanley has written and published extensively on the subject of intellectual property and information technology law, as well as written articles for a number of journals and legal publications. He has delivered many conference papers. He authored a book entitled The Copyright Protection of Computer Software in the United Kingdom (Hart Publishing, 2000). Stanley has also published the ‘Intellectual Property’ Volume of Singapore Precedents & Forms (LexisNexis, February 2005) and an article entitled ‘Publisher reigned in on racing data copyright claim’ (WIPO Magazine, March 2012).
Stanley graduated from the University of Leicester with an LLB (Hons) degree in 1992. He was called to the Bar at Lincoln’s Inn in 1993. He obtained an LLM from the University of Cambridge in 1994 and was called to the Singapore Bar in 1995. Stanley then commenced his PhD research at the University of Cambridge in the field of technology law and computer software copyright and completed his doctorate within three years. He is the first Singapore-born lawyer to have been conferred a Ph.D in Law from the University of Cambridge.
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