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Experience
- Amy advises clients on a wide range of contentious and non-contentious Intellectual Property (IP) and Information Technology (IT) matters in mainland China and Hong Kong, including enforcement of IP rights and anti-piracy, civil litigation, Customs actions, administrative actions, trademark oppositions, licensing and assignment of IP rights, franchising, software contracts, company name complaints, domain name registrations and disputes, and Internet content.
- Amy also advises clients on general commercial matters, matters concerning personal data and privacy, gambling, and obscene and indecent articles.
Amy is a senior associate of JSM.
Notable Engagements
- Heavily involving in a complicated passing off litigation of a middle school originated from China that has been established for over a century.
- Acting for a leading property development and investment group in Asia in a name protection campaign in which actions have been taken against around 100 unauthorised companies using the group's trade marks as part of their company names.
- Assisting a locally listed company in defending an interim injunction application in a passing off case.
- Advising on IP aspects of a number of commercial transactions including a recent China acquisition deal of a well known athletic shoe company.
- Planned and successfully carried out anti-counterfeiting operations in Hong Kong and mainland China for a listed US-based apparel company and was widely reported.
- Successes against cybersquatters - success cases include those for a leading airline (generic TLDs and various country code TLDs such as .hk, .cn, .tw, .id etc) and even for our own JSM domain name.
- Represented a publishing group in successfully taking Customs action in Hong Kong based on copyright.
Employment
- JSM, 2008 - date
- Johnson Stokes & Master (now JSM), 2000 - 2008
Education
The University of Hong Kong, PCLL The University of Hong Kong, LLB (Hons)
Languages
- English
- Chinese (Cantonese & Mandarin)
Admitted
- England & Wales, 2003
- Hong Kong, 2002
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