Practices
Corporate/M&A
Dispute Resolution and Litigation
Intellectual Property

Location
Myanmar

Languages
Burmese
English

Education

LLB, Dagon University

Khin Myo Myo Aye
+95 9 772 440 001

Biography

Khin Myo Myo Aye is a senior associate in Tilleke & Gibbins’ Yangon office. Her practice focuses on intellectual property, through which she assists clients in a broad range of industries secure their intellectual property rights in the jurisdiction. Khin assists client with IP enforcement measures by drafting, reviewing, and preparing cease-and-desist letters, facilitating negotiations, and devising strategies. Through her years of experience, she has become adept at international trademark filings through collaboration with IP agents around the world.

Prior joining Tilleke & Gibbins, Khin practiced both civil and criminal litigation and conducted legal research and analysis for intellectual property matters at local and regional law firms in Myanmar.

Khin graduated with an LLB from Dagon University of Yangon and is an advocate, certified by the Supreme Court of the Union of Myanmar. She is fluent in English and Burmese.


Experience
  • Represented a major telecommunications company in the execution of their intellectual portfolio management strategy, including the registration of trademarks in several Asian countries.
  • Acted on behalf of a brand owner in successful negotiations with an infringer, ultimately convincing the infringer to stop distributing and selling the counterfeit products, and recalling all distributed products from wholesale and retail outlets across Myanmar.
  • Represented an international food and beverage outlet in enforcing their trademarks in Myanmar, following the discovery of a Myanmar company in the same line of business imitating their trademarks. After assisting the client to file cease and desist letters, we successfully convinced the local entity to change their name and cease infringement of our client’s brand.