Intellectual Property
 
email: tim.hancock@haldanes.com
 
Title
Consultant, Intellectual Property Group
Date of joining Haldanes:
2005
 
Jurisdictions:
Hong Kong (practising)
England & Wales (non-practising)
 
Principal Service Areas:
All aspects of Intellectual property law including registration, commercial exploitation, licensing, advisory work, IT, enforcement and litigation
 
Experience:

Tim has lived and worked as a Solicitor in Hong Kong since 1980. During over 25 years of practice, Tim has handled a very wide range of Intellectual property matters. He has been responsible for securing registrations of patents, trade marks and designs in Hong Kong, China, Asia and elsewhere around the world. He has drafted agreements and advised in relation to the commercial exploitation by way of assignment, licensing, joint venture and franchising for a wide range of Intellectual Property rights in the fields of patents, trade marks, designs, copyright and other related rights for clients in Hong Kong and many other jurisdictions around the world. He has also advised in relation to issues of confidentiality concerning a wide range of intellectual property rights.

Tim has also been involved in numerous court cases in Hong Kong seeking to enforce Intellectual property rights as well as defending parties accused of infringing the rights of others. He has also been involved in the enforcement of intellectual property rights in China, other jurisdictions in Asia and elsewhere around the world.

Tim has a very extensive network of personal contacts in all areas of intellectual property in a wide range of countries around the world.

 
More about Tim:
  • Member of Law Society of Hong Kong since 1980
  • Notary Public since 1988
  • Council Member of the Hong Kong Society of Notaries for over 5 years
  • Council Member of the Asian Patent Attorneys Association for over 10 years
  • Personally handled 2 of the 3 patent cases which have proceeded to trial in Hong Kong during the last 25 years
  • Named as one of only 2 acknowledged experts on patent issues in Hong Kong by the 2003 & 2004 "Who's Who Legal Directory" published by Law Business Research Ltd
  • Acted as an expert witness on Hong Kong patent law during a trial of a patent action in Texas, USA
  • Speaker twice at Intellectual property Update Lecture Series hosted by a leading US firm of Attorneys which was broadcast live by Internet to their clients and associates around the world
  • Regular attendee and some time speaker at conferences held by the numerous international intellectual property organisations of which Tim is a member
  • Regular speaker at Continuing Professional Development Lectures to fellow Solicitors on a wide range of intellectual property issues
 
Languages:
English
 

   
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