Norton Rose Fulbright is a highly proficient firm in handling a variety of matters, ranging from IP rights acquisition, licensing and enforcement. It has a notable presence in the life sciences and healthcare industry as well as education, advising on patent and trade mark registrations and litigation. Justin Davidson has a strong record advising both multinational and Asian businesses on a wide range of contentious and non-contentious IP and technology matters.

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Testimonials

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  • ‘Our cooperation with Norton Rose Fulbright covers every field in IP, including trade marks, patents, copyrights, domain names, and etc. The team is impressive. The team’s practice covers almost every field of Intellectual Property. The team is also impressive for their knowledge in different sectors. The team has always been able to quickly understand the major structure of the case, locate the key issues and give creative opinions/advice sparkling our thoughts, and respond quickly.’
  • ‘Justin Davidson impressed us as a smart and diligent professional. Justin is highly efficient and good at communication. He can provide detailed and thorough responses to our questions and advice in a very short period of time. He knows well of clients’ needs and knows well how to fulfil them. He is always the first attorney to our mind when our client would like to seek IP services in Hong Kong.’

  • ‘This team is very efficient, provides practical suggestions, offers good solutions, and can help customers solve problems very effectively.’

  • ‘In addition to being efficient and timely in his work, Justin Davidson is very familiar with the working habits and needs of Chinese clients, and he also understands the laws of different countries and regions. He can combine his rich knowledge to provide clients with practical and effective suggestions to truly solve their problems.’

  • ‘The team is a very stable intellectual property team that can provide a full range of services for different industries, including patents, trademarks, copyrights, unfair competition, etc. The team can consider the commercial purposes of the client and has a wide range of cooperation networks around the world.’

  • ‘Justin Davidson is the team’s leading partner. Justin has over 30 years of experience in the IP field and has his own expertise in patent technology. In addition, Justin is also very good at considering the client’s needs from a practical perspective and seeking a variety of suitable solutions for the client.'

Key clients

  • ActusRayPartners
  • ASTRI (Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Institute)
  • BNP Paribas
  • City University of Hong Kong
  • Crown Worldwide Holdings Ltd.
  • Drawbridge Pharmaceuticals / Sedarex Limited
  • GlaxoSmithKline Plc
  • Global Futures & Options
  • Haleon plc
  • International Pastry Concepts LLC
  • Neiman Marcus Group
  • Population Services International

Work highlights

  • Advising Neiman Marcus Group on a wide range of legal and compliance issues, including IP, marketing, customs, product labelling and product safety as well as Customs regulations, for their planned online store operations in Hong Kong and China.
  • Advising Crown Worldwide on the management and enforcement of its global trade mark portfolio in 70 countries.
  • Providing City University of Hong Kong with patent advisory and patent prosecution services in relation to a number of different areas of technology.

Lawyers

Leading partners
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Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Justin Davidson

Other key lawyers

Stanley Ng