Stanley Lai
One Marina Boulevard
#28-00 Singapore 018989
Stanley serves as a Principal Mediator of the Singapore Mediation Centre. He was appointed Senior Counsel in January 2010, and is currently the Head of the Firm’s Intellectual Property Practice.
Stanley is currently the Chairman of the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore. He is also a member of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre IP Panel and Singapore Copyright Tribunal, and a director of Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd (SGX-Listed) as well as Singapore Shipping Corporation Limited. He also serves as an Adjunct Professor of the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore. Stanley is a member of International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI), Asian Patent Attorneys Association (APAA) and International Trademark Association (INTA).
SIAC IP Panel.
Asia Business Law Review, Issue No. 27, January 2000 at 65; “Patenting the Life Sciences” Law Gazette, November 2000(3); “Napstering in Singapore” Law Gazette, February 2001(1); “Intellectual Property Licensing”, Articles on Singapore Law (13, 2005) www.singaporelaw.sg; “The Copyright Scourge of P2P Networks: Civil Copyright Liability of the P2P Provider” Inter Se, Singapore academy of Law, March-April 2006 (2); “Cyber -Copyright: Trends and Perspectives” Law Gazette, April 2008; “Take care of IP rights during downturn” The Business Times, Friday, 20 February 2009; “Securitise your IP rights in Asia” (an article published in Managing Intellectual Property April 2009, 30-32); “Publisher reigned in on racing data copyright claim” (WIPO magazine, February 2012); “The Future of Inventive Step in Patent Law (2012) 24 SAcLJ 599 (Special
Issue on Intellectual Property); “The protection of partial designs” Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, 2018, Vol. 13, No. 4.
Contributions to Books: Tracing of Assets in the Commonwealth – Singapore Chapter in International Tracing of Assets (Michael Ashe QC, Barry Rider eds) Volume 1,Q4/1-21 (1997); Copyright Issues of Watermarking, chapter in the Handbook of Information Hiding: Steganography and Watermarking (Artech House Inc, Mass, 2000); Contribution to International Perspectives on Intellectual Property (Volume 8, 2001) – “The Role of Computer Software Copyright in New Media” at page 75; The Potential Developments in the Areas Relating to the Protection of Intellectual Property Rights in the New Millennium in ‘The Singapore Conference’: Leading the Law and Lawyers into the New Millennium@2020 (Butterworths, 2000) at page 129 et sq; “Developments in Intellectual Property Law” in Developments in Singapore Law 1996 and 2000 (Sweet & Maxwell Asia, 2001) at page 1; “Anti-circumvention and its challenges to the Law of Copyright” in ‘The Impact of the Regulatory Framework on E-Commerce in Singapore’ (Symposium Publications, October 2002); Contribution to the Singapore section of the “Encyclopedia of International Commercial Litigation” (Kluwer Law International, 2009); “Development in Patent Law over the Past Five Years (2006-2010)” in Developments in Singapore Law between 2006 and 2010 (Singapore Academy of Law Conference, 2011) at page 374 et seq; “Intellectual Property” chapter of “The Law Relating to Specific Contracts in Singapore on Intellectual Property”,(Steven Chong J and Cavinder Bull SC, eds) (Sweet & Maxwell Asia, second edition 2016) chapter 7; “The Intellectual Property Review” Chapter 23 Singapore (Law Business Research) page 273; “Discovery” Chapter 5 of Civil Litigation Singapore, (Chan Sek Keong SJ and Francis Xavier SC, eds) (Sweet & Maxwell Asia 2016); “Intellectual Property Law” (2016) 17 SAL Ann Rev 504 (Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review of Cases – IP Update); “Intellectual Property Law” (2017) 18 SAL Ann Rev 538 (Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review of Cases – IP Update (e-published on 23 July 2018); Contribution to Singapore section of the “The International Comparative Legal Guide to Product Liability 2011” (Global Legal Group, 2011) at page 291; Contribution to Singapore section of the “The International Comparative Legal Guide to Product Liability 2012” (Global Legal Group, 2012) at page 254; Contribution to Singapore section of the “The International Comparative Legal Guide to Product Liability 2013” (Global Legal Group, 2013) at page 253; Contribution to Singapore section of the “The International Comparative Legal Guide to Product Liability 2014” (Global Legal Group, 2014) at page 238; Contribution to Singapore section of the “The International Comparative Legal Guide to Product Liability 2015” (Global Legal Group, 2015) at page 133; Contribution to Singapore section of the “The International Comparative Legal Guide to Product Liability 2016” (Global Legal Group, 2016) at page 194; Contribution to Singapore section of the “The International Comparative Legal Guide to Product Liability 2017” (Global Legal Group, 2017) at page 177; Contribution to Singapore section of the “The International Comparative Legal Guide to Pharmaceutical Advertising 2017” (Global Legal Group, 2017) at page
242; Contribution to Singapore section of the “The International Comparative Legal Guide to Product Liability 2018” (Global Legal Group, 2018) at page 186.
Authored Works: The Copyright Protection of Computer Software in the United Kingdom (Hart Publishing, 2000); The “Intellectual Property” Volume (Volume D) of Singapore Precedents and Forms, published by LexisNexis (2005).