Michael Soo

Practice Areas

Intellectual Property, Information Technology & Licensing

Career

Michael Soo is a Barrister at Law, Gray’s Inn, England and Wales; an advocate and solicitor of High Court of Malaya and the Supreme Court of Singapore. He is the current Managing Partner of Shook Lin & Bok. He joined the firm in 1993 as a partner and is the head of the IP and IT Department. Michael was a past president of the Malaysia Intellectual Property Association (“MIPA”), and was the immediate past president of Asian Patent Attorneys Association, Malaysia Country Group, and is currently a vice president (International) and a councilor of Asian Patent Attorneys Association (“APAA”). He was a member of the Copyright Law Review Ad-hoc Committee, under the Attorney General’s Chambers, Malaysia, and is a member of the IP Committee of the Bar Council of Malaysia since it was established in 2002.

Professional Memberships

* Member and President of Malaysia Country Group, Asian Patent Attorneys Association (APAA)

* Member and past president, Malaysian Intellectual Property Association

* Member, Bar Council Intellectual Property Committee

* Member, International Trade Mark Association (INTA)

* Member of INTA’s International Panel of Neutrals (an Alternative Dispute Resolution [ADR]

* Overseas Member, The Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys, United Kingdom

* Member, Inter-Pacific Bar Association (IPBA)

* Member, LawAsia (Law Association of Asian Countries)

* Member, International Association for the Protection on Intellectual Property (AIPPI)

* Panellist, Asian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Centre

* Member, ASEAN Intellectual Property Association

* Member, Licensing Executives Society

Publications

Contributed to the Law and Practice of Injunctions in Malaysia, Sweet & Maxwell