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Dr
Stanley Lai is Head of Intellectual Property
& Technology. Stanley practises corporate
and commercial litigation as well as
intellectual property and information
technology law, with a particular emphasis
on e-commerce transactions,
telecommunications regulatory compliance,
intellectual property and technology
litigation, licensing (including open-source
licensing) , franchising and on-line and
off-line enforcement against piracy and
counterfeiting. He also advises clients on
branding strategy and trade mark dilution.
He also advises biotechnology and biomedical
companies on the regulatory regime in
Singapore (eg. The regulation of clinical
trials and tissue banking), and how their
intellectual property rights can best be
protected in Singapore and elsewhere. Most
recently, Stanley has advised on the
regulatory regime governing all aspects of
clinical trials, the supply of medical
equipment to clinical trial sites, as well
as the promotion of approved/ non-approved
drugs. His clients include Amgen,
Mundipharma and UCB.
Stanley sits on the panel of adjudicators
for the resolution of domain name disputes
under the Singapore Domain Name Dispute
Resolution Policy. He also serves as a
member of the Board of Governors of the
Intellectual Property Academy of Singapore
and holds an appointment of an Adjunct
Associate Professor in the Law Faculty of
the National University of Singapore.
Stanley has published extensively on the
topic of intellectual property and
information technology law, as well as
written articles for a number of journals
and legal publications . He authored a book
entitled The Copyright Protection of
Computer Software in the United Kingdom
(Hart Publishing 2000). His latest
loose-leaf work, the ‘Intellectual Property'
Volume of Singapore Precedents & Forms
(LexisNexis, 2005) was published in February
2005.
Stanley graduated from the University of
Leicester with an LLB (Hons) degree in 1992.
He was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn in
1993. He obtained an LLM from the University
of Cambridge in 1994 and was called to the
Singapore Bar in 1995. Stanley then
commenced his PhD research at the University
of Cambridge in the field of technology law
and computer software copyright and
completed his doctorate in three years. He
is the first Singapore-born lawyer to
receive a PhD in Law from the University of
Cambridge. Prior to joining Allen &
Gledhill, he was a partner in the
Intellectual Property & Technology
department at another leading law firm in
Singapore.
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