Alban is a preeminent lawyer with a specialised focus on complex patent litigation and other contentious IP related cases.
Alban is a partner in the Intellectual Property & Technology Group based in Singapore. He currently leads the ASEAN and Japan focus practice of the firm. He has been in practice for over 30 years.
Alban represents major software companies, computer manufacturers, well known trade mark owners, pharmaceutical companies, book publishers, international airlines and well known hotel chains, as well as collection agencies and advertising agencies. He also represents a number of Japanese clients. He is regularly engaged in complex patent litigation and other contentious IP-related cases, and has also been involved in a number of high profile IP cases before the Singapore Court of Appeal. He also handles multi-jurisdictional IP litigation cases.
He has written and presented many articles and papers in the spectrum of IP law. Alban is the author of the book Enforcing Injunctions, co-contributor of Essays on Computer Law, and general editor of A Guide to Singapore Patent Law. He has also authored the Patent section of the Halsbury Law of Singapore, and the Singapore chapter on Patent Claim Interpretation.
Alban has been consistently ranked as a leading intellectual property lawyer by the Asia Pacific Legal 500, IAM Patent 1000 and the Chambers Asia-Pacific editions.