Lawyers

Jin Ooi

Work Department

Intellectual Property Litigation

Position

Jin Ooi is an intellectual property litigator in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. He is experienced in patent litigation and counselling (including on complex damages inquiries) mainly in the pharmaceutical and life sciences field (second medical use, biosimilars, small molecules, DNA sequencing, vaccines, transgenic animal platforms for antibody discovery), and in the consumer products sector (shaving razors, potentially reduced-risk products including tobacco heating and vapour products, dishwashing tablets, coffee pods and capsules).

He is also experienced in litigating and arbitrating trade secrets disputes in the medical devices (bone cements), tech (LNG carriers) and aviation sector (airplane components, airport businesses), in addition to handling antitrust claims (cathode ray tubes, lithium ion batteries, forklift gas).

Career

2018 to present Kirkland & Ellis International LLP; 2014-2018 Allen & Overy LLP; 2011-2014 Corrs Chambers Westgarth

Memberships

The Law Society of England & Wales; The Law Society of New South Wales (Australia); AIPPI: International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property; IPSoc - Education Secretary

Education

University of Oxford (Postgraduate Diploma in Intellectual Property Law and Practice, 2016); College of Law, Sydney (Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice, 2011); The University of Sydney (LL.B. First Class Honours, 2010; B.Sc., Pharmacology Advanced, 2008)

Mentions

TMT (technology, media and telecoms) • London

Intellectual property: patents (contentious and non-contentious)

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Industry focus • London

Life sciences and healthcare

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