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SINGAPORE CONVENTION WEEK EVENTS

SINGAPORE CONVENTION WEEK EVENTS

Menu for IP Mediation – Choices and Options

by WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center

28 August, Friday

14:00 - 16:00

Maxwell Chambers, Elgin Room

This panel explores how IP and technology disputes are best mediated — not just why they suit mediation in the first place. With facilitative, evaluative and transformative approaches each shaping the process differently, the panel examines which style serves IP/technology disputants best, whether approaches can be combined, and whether parties should be able to choose their preferred style in advance. It also considers where AI might fit into the picture. Bringing together Joyce A. Tan (LVM Law Chambers), Lam Chung Nian (WongPartnership LLP) and Dr Stanley Lai, SC (Allen & Gledhill LLP), the panel shares practical insights from real IP and technology dispute experience.

Moderator

Caleb GOH

Legal Officer and Representative, World Intellectual Property Organisation Arbitration and Mediation Center, Singapore Office

He helms the WIPO Center's outreach and engagement efforts in Singapore and supports its work across the Asia-Pacific region. His work includes administering international ADR cases, developing policy and capacity-building initiatives, delivering training on intellectual property dispute resolution, and collaborating with governments, IP offices, academic institutions and industry stakeholders to strengthen the use of mediation and arbitration.

Speakers

Joyce A. TAN

Senior Adviser, LVM Law Chambers LLC

She is an Advocate & Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore, on the Roll of Solicitors of England & Wales (non-practising), a Registered Patent Agent, Notary Public and Commissioner for Oaths in Singapore, and was awarded the Singapore National Public Service Medal (Pingat Bakti Masyarakat) in 2021. She is a Principal Mediator with the Singapore Mediation Centre, a member of the Specialist Mediator Panel of the Singapore International Mediation Centre and serves on the Advisory Committee to the WIPO Mediation and Arbitration Center. She has been consistently recognised as a leading lawyer by Legal 500, Chambers, and other legal directories, and was named to the Asian Legal Business Super 50 TMT Lawyers list in 2024.

LAM Chung Nian

Head of IP, Technology & Data Group, WongPartnership LLP

Chung Nian is the Head of the Intellectual Property, Technology & Data Group at WongPartnership LLP, handling contentious and non-contentious matters in IP, media, information technology, data protection and telecommunications law. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb), an IP Adjudicator for the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS), a member of the SIAC Panel of Arbitrators for Intellectual Property Disputes and is appointed to the WIPO Panel of Film and Media Mediators, Arbitrators and Experts and the panel of mediators for the IPOS-WIPO mediation initiative. He is President of the Asian Patent Attorney Association (Singapore Chapter) and one of the first lawyers in Singapore accredited as a Senior Accredited Specialist (Data & Digital Economy) by the Singapore Academy of Law. He has been recognised as a Band 1 lawyer for Intellectual Property by Chambers and Partners and a Leading Individual by Legal 500.

Dr Stanley LAI, SC

Head, IP; Co-Head of the Cybersecurity & Data Protection Practice, Allen & Gledhill LLP

Dr Lai is the Head of the Intellectual Property Practice and Co-Head of the Cybersecurity & Data Protection Practice at Allen & Gledhill LLP, and Partner in the Litigation & Dispute Resolution Department, specialising in IP litigation and information technology disputes. He is a member of the SIAC Intellectual Property Panel, a member of the Singapore Copyright Tribunal, a Senior Mediator with the Singapore Mediation Centre, and a Specialist Mediator with the Singapore International Mediation Centre. He was formerly Chairman of the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore and was awarded the Public Service Medal in 2020 and the Public Service Star in 2024. He was named Intellectual Property Lawyer of the Year at The Legal 500 Southeast Asia Awards 2023, and "Lawyer of the Year" for Technology Law in the 2026 edition of The Best Lawyers in Singapore. 

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