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Stanley Lai

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Dr Stanley Lai is Head of Intellectual Property & Technology. Stanley practises corporate and commercial litigation as well as intellectual property and information technology law, with a particular emphasis on e-commerce transactions, telecommunications regulatory compliance, intellectual property and technology litigation, licensing (including open-source licensing), franchising and on-line and off-line enforcement against piracy and counterfeiting. He regularly advises a large group of local and foreign clients on branding strategy, trade mark portfolio management and trade mark dilution and re-branding. More recently, Stanley has been active in advising well-known clients on the regulatory regime governing all aspects of clinical trials, the supply of medical equipment to clinical trial sites, as well as the promotion of approved/ non-approved drugs. His clients include Amgen, Mundipharma, UCB, Abbot Labs and Pfizer. He also maintains an active onshore and offshore litigation practice and is a well-known specialist for dispute resolution and management in the fields of trade marks, patents and copyright.

Stanley sits on the panel of adjudicators for the resolution of domain name disputes under the Singapore Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy. He is a non-executive director of Singapore Technologies Aerospace Ltd and also serves as a member of the Board of Governors of the Intellectual Property Academy of Singapore. Stanley is also an NUS Adjunct Associate Professor, holding concurrent appointments in the Faculty of Law and Faculty of Engineering.

Stanley has published extensively on the topic of intellectual property and information technology law, as well as written articles for a number of journals and legal publications. He authored a book entitled The Copyright Protection of Computer Software in the United Kingdom (Hart Publishing 2000). His latest loose-leaf work, the ‘Intellectual Property’ Volume of Singapore Precedents & Forms (LexisNexis, 2005) was published in February 2005.

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 in three years. He is the first Singapore-born lawyer to have been conferred a PhD in Law from the University of Cambridge. Prior to joining Allen & Gledhill, he was a partner in the Intellectual Property & Technology department at another leading law firm in Singapore.

 

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