Baker McKenzie Wong & Leow

IPTech

Partner

Abe is a partner in our Bangkok office. His main areas of practice include IP and technology advisory, with a strong focus on highly complex technologies. With his extensive and international legal experience as a lawyer and over ten years of technical experience as an engineer in the US and Canada, Abe is able to provide commercially oriented legal and technology-specific advice on a wide range of IP and technology issues. Before joining our Bangkok office, Abe was a lawyer in our Baker McKenzie offices in the US (where he passed the US patent bar examination and qualified as a US Registered Patent Attorney (limited recognition)) and Singapore.

Abe provides substantive legal and technology-specific advice for domestic and international clients. He advises clients on a variety of technology and IP matters, including formation of joint ventures involving IP; IP asset acquisitions; IP licensing; and advice on substantive technical issues relevant to the technical value and soundness of IP portfolios as a key asset class of any technology company. These include IP protection coverage, IP ownership and inventorship issues, and open source risks for software-related technologies. As clients are not only protecting but also transferring their proprietary technologies across multiple jurisdictions globally, technology transfer regimes and export controls have become a critically important issue for such clients. With his extensive technical background and experience, Abe possesses the rare technical expertise and experience to understand underlying technologies being transferred so as to advise on any proposed cross-border IP exploitation, be it through outright assignment, licensing, and/or inter-group technology sharing. Knowing the issues, risks and traps pursuant to conducting substantive IP due diligence, Abe is then able to advise on contractual safeguards and, where feasible, suggest suitable risk mitigating measures. Abe also advises various clients on other IP-related matters, including drafting of IP policies, standards, and guides to enable clients to quickly build out and properly maintain a suitable IP portfolio.

On the patent side, Abe advises clients on the entire lifecycle of patents, including prosecution, patentability, validity, infringement, FTO, landscapes, and due diligence. He regularly drafts patent specifications, provides various legal opinions, and prosecutes patent applications in various jurisdictions, including the US, Europe, China, Thailand, Singapore, and other jurisdictions. He also provides strategic, tailored, and practical advice on how and where to best pursue IP protection and best practices for IP management, policies, and playbooks. Abe has a particular passion for highly complex technologies. On the contentious side, Abe has an impeccable record in patent, trade secret, and copyright infringement cases.

Abe advises clients on a variety of technologies and industries, including those pertaining to computer hardware/software, e-commerce, business methods, Fintech, health tech, location-based technologies, AI, DLT, blockchain, cryptocurrencies, bio-medical technologies (including bio-medical devices, surgical robotics, and surgical implants), networks, telecom, semiconductor devices and fabrication, data storage technologies, electrical circuits, electronics, optics, stereoscopic and autostereoscopic technologies, robotics, manufacturing systems, control systems, aerospace, automotive and other land-based transportation technologies, oil and gas exploration technologies, regenerative and clean energy technologies, and nano-technology.

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