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| Coral TOH Managing Director |
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| coraltoh@ellacheong.com |
Coral Toh has been a director of Ella Cheong (Hong Kong and Beijing) since 2005 and the managing director since 2008. Prior to that, she has worked at several leading intellectual property law firms and has been involved in both contentious and non-contentious aspects of intellectual property law practice.
Her experience in contentious intellectual property matters includes advising multi-national companies on regional anti-counterfeiting strategies, coordinating multi-jurisdictional private investigations, obtaining search warrants, liaising with local police, customs or administrative authorities, conducting raids on infringers’ premises, negotiating settlement terms between infringers and intellectual property owners, obtaining and enforcing interim injunctions and orders for delivery up or destruction. Coral has advised on copyright infringement and filed or defended trademark opposition, revocation and invalidation actions in China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore and Malaysia.
Her experience in non-contentious intellectual property matters focuses on acquisition and exploitation of intellectual property and includes drafting and reviewing of non-disclosure agreements, memorandums of understanding, research collaboration agreements, joint-venture agreements, clinical trial agreements, software development agreements, technology and patent licensing agreements and other licensing and franchising agreements with subject matters ranging from global tracking systems, computer games, manufacture, sale and provision of goods and services to merchandizing relating to television series and movies. She has also advised multi-national companies on general due diligence procedures with respect to the acquisition of intellectual property on a regional basis.
Coral has assisted in the incorporation of both public and private companies, as well as the corporate restructuring by the Singapore National Science and Technology Board of its mature research institutes such as the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Institute of Molecular Agrobiology, Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, Institute of Microelectronics, Institute of High Performance Computing, Gintic Institute of Manufacturing Technology, Data Storage Institute, Environmental Technology Institute and Kent Ridge Digital Labs. Prior to that, she assisted in negotiating and drafting collaborative agreements between governmental research institutes (including their subsidiaries and spin-off companies), Singapore’s two universities (National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University) and foreign governmental, academic and industry partners. The subject matter of these agreements ranged from materials engineering for handheld devices to software development, electronic scanning equipment and educational materials.
Coral has worked in Singapore and Hong Kong, and her working languages are English, Chinese and other Chinese dialects such as Cantonese, Hokkien and Teochew.
Qualifications
LLB (Hons) National University of Singapore
Post-graduate Law Course, Board of Legal Education (Singapore)
LLM (Information Technology / Intellectual Property), University of Hong Kong
Advocate & Solicitor (Supreme Court of Singapore)
Solicitor (Hong Kong)
Talks and Presentations
“IPR Protection in ICT Licensing in China and Hong Kong” – Queensland Government Trade and Investment Office, 24 November 2005, Hong Kong, China and Queensland, Australia (via live video link)
“Intellectual Property Rights in Greater China” – Asian Anti-Counterfeiting Association, 20 to 22 July 2006, Singapore
“Creating, Acquiring and Managing Trade Marks” – Global Forum on Intellectual Property, 21 to 22 August 2006, Singapore
“Intellectual Property – Moving up the Value Chain” – Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 16 November 2006, Hong Kong, China
“Descriptive Trade Marks – The Asian Perspective” – Fédération Internationale Des Conseils En Propriété Industrielle (FICPI) Open Forum, 7 to 11 November 2007, Seville, Spain
“Well-known Trade Marks in China” – Association Internationale pour la Protection de la Propriété Intellectuelle (AIPPI) Congress, 6 to 11 September 2008, Boston, United States
“Trade Marks for Tech Products” – Hong Kong Science & Technology Park, 12 November 2008, Hong Kong, China
“IP Made Easy for the SME” – Entrepreneurs Club, 19 March 2009, Hong Kong, China
“Chinese Medicine: From
IP to IPO” – International Conference & Exhibition of the Modernization of
Chinese Medicine & Health Products, 13 to 14 August 2009, Hong Kong, China
Papers and Articles
"Einsatz von Geistigem Eigentum bei Finanzierungen in China" (Use of Intellectual Property in Finance in China) – IP Manager 2/2009 (Publisher)