Kok Keng Lau

Practice Areas

Kok Keng has been in practice in Singapore since 1990. His main practice areas are intellectual property (“IP“), technology and media law. Within these areas, he handles both contentious and non-contentious work.

Kok Keng is recognised as a leading lawyer in his fields by publications such as Chambers Asia-Pacific, Asian Legal Business, The Legal 500 Asia Pacific, asialaw, Who’s Who Legal (Singapore, Southeast Asia and Global editions), Best Lawyers (Singapore), and Managing IP. In addition, Kok Keng has been consistently recommended as a global leader in the areas of data – information technology, entertainment, gaming and sports by Who’s Who Legal, placing him amongst the world’s pre-eminent lawyers in each of these fields.

Kok Keng has served as a member of the Singapore Copyright Tribunal for the past 10 years, is currently an IP Arbitrator with the Singapore International Arbitration Centre, and regularly serves as Facilitator for the Patents module of the Singapore Institute of Legal Education’s Preparatory Course leading to Part B of Singapore Bar Examinations.

Kok Keng is also a member of the Singapore Sports Institute’s Institutional Review Board which provides independent governance to ensure that all research projects undertaken by the institute conform to international practices for human biomedical research ethics and safety, and confidentiality and data privacy.

Experience

Kok Keng undertakes a broad range of contentious, advisory and transactional IP work. Some of his recent matters include assisting the Fédération internationale de football association (FIFA) in brand protection and IP enforcement against ambush marketing activities in relation to the 2022 Qatar Men’s World Cup and 2023 Australia & New Zealand Women’s World Cup, representing a Swiss banking software developer in an arbitration involving a dispute relating to a core banking information technology (“IT“) project in Sri Lanka, advising a financial services company on the use of IP assets as security for financing, and assisting a client in filing a patent application for artificial intelligence-enabled document processing system and method to extract selected information.

Kok Keng also led the team that represented the developer of a popular mobile video game in a copyright lawsuit which was awarded Impact Case of the Year at the asialaw Awards 2023.

Kok Keng’s broad range of clients include technology companies, television broadcasters, cable operators, copyright licensing organisations, copyright licensees, major software and hardware manufacturers, computer gaming companies, internet service providers, sports organisations, terrestrial and online gaming operators, movie production houses, inventors, authors, publishers and tertiary education institutions.