Christine Saw

Christine Saw is a Senior Associate in the Intellectual Property Group in Singapore. Her primary practice area is Intellectual Property Law, and her practice covers both the contentious and non-contentious aspects of intellectual property, with a particular focus on enforcement and dispute resolution.

She has represented both local and international clients in a wide variety of matters before the Singapore State Courts and Supreme Courts, including patent infringement, breach of confidence, trade mark infringement and passing off matters. She also has experience advising on and coordinating multi-jurisdictional IP disputes, and has successfully led her own contentious matters before the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS), such as trade mark oppositions, revocations and invalidations.

In addition, she has advised on and assisted with contentious domain name matters at ICANN and MYNIC. She also regularly assists with anti-counterfeiting investigations and online take-down notices for prominent local and multinational companies.

On the non-contentious front, she has experience in the protection, management and commercialisation of intellectual property rights and assets, including preparing and reviewing franchise agreements, licence agreements, as well as online user agreements, terms of service and privacy policies for online e-commerce platforms. She also helps clients with trade mark portfolio management and trade mark prosecution.

She has worked with clients from a wide spectrum of fields, such as prominent social media and technology companies, filmmakers, app developers, e-commerce platforms, blockchain and crypto technology companies, multinational food and beverage companies and healthcare companies.