NG-LOY 
Wee Loon

 
Professor

Academic Fellow

Ng-Loy Wee Loon’s main research interests lie in the field of Intellectual Property (IP) Law. She teaches “Law of Intellectual Property” which focuses on Singapore’s IP regime, as well as “International Trademark Law and Policy” and “International Copyright Law and Policy”. Amongst her academic publications is the text on Law of Intellectual Property of Singapore (3rd Revised Edition, 2022).

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Contact

lawngwl@nus.edu.sg
(65) 6516-6233
ETS-02-25

Education

LLM (University of London); LLB (NUS); Senior Counsel (Honoris Causa), Advocate & Solicitor (Singapore)

Curriculum Vitae

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Current Courses

Law of Intellectual Property (A)

Ng-Loy Wee Loon’s main research interests lie in the field of Intellectual Property (IP) Law. She teaches “Law of Intellectual Property” which focuses on Singapore’s IP regime, as well as “International Trademark Law and Policy” and “International Copyright Law and Policy”. Amongst her academic publications is the text on Law of Intellectual Property of Singapore (3rd Revised Edition, 2022). Outside of the university, her involvement in the Iegal landscape of Singapore includes the following: a member of the Resource Panel for Government Parliamentary Committee for Law and Home Affairs (1999-2000); a member of the Board of Directors of the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (2000-2001); a member of the Board of Governors of the IP Academy (2007-2011); a member of the Senate of the Singapore Academy of Law; a member of Singapore’s Copyright Tribunal; a member of the Singapore Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy Panel.

Books
Ng-Loy Wee Loon, Law of Intellectual Property of Singapore (Revised 3rd Edition) (Sweet & Maxwell 2022)

Ng-Loy Wee Loon, Law of Intellectual Property of Singapore (3rd edn, Sweet & Maxwell 2021)

Edited Books
Shyamkrishna Balganesh, Ng-Loy Wee Loon and Sun Haochen (eds), The Cambridge Handbook of Copyright Limitations and Exceptions (Cambridge University Press 2021)

Book Chapters
Ng-Loy Wee Loon, 'Copyright Exceptions for Text and Data Mining: A Case of Specificity (Certainty) and Generality (Flexibility)' in Thouvenin, F., Peukert, A., Jaeger, T., Geiger, C. (ed), Kreation Innovation Märkte - Creation Innovation Markets (Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg 2024) 263

Ng-Loy Wee Loon, 'Intellectual Property Law in Singapore' in Christoph Antons and Michael Blakeney (eds), Intellectual Property Law in South East Asia (Edward Elgar Publishing 2023) 18

Ng-Loy Wee Loon, 'Logic and Rationality' in Goh Yihan (ed), Pursuing Justice and Justice Alone – The Heart and Humanity of Andrew Phang’s Jurisprudence (Academy Publishing 2022)

Ng-Loy Wee Loon and David Tan, 'Intellectual Property' in Simon Chesterman, Goh Yihan and Andrew Phang Boon Leong (eds), Law and Technology in Singapore (Academy Publishing 2021) 399

Ng-Loy Wee Loon, 'Trade Secret Protection in Singapore' in Liu Kung-Chung and Reto Hilty (eds), Trade Secret Protection: Asia at a Crossroads (Kluwer Law International B.V. 2021) 271

Ng-Loy Wee Loon, 'Copyright and Religion: An Exemption for the Use of Music and Songs in Worship?' in Shyamkrishna Balganesh, Ng-Loy Wee Loon and Sun Haochen (eds), The Cambridge Handbook of Copyright Limitations and Exceptions (Cambridge University Press 2021) 389

Estelle Derclaye and Ng-Loy Wee Loon, 'Relationship Between Trademark Law and Copyright/Design Law: Trademark Protection for Ornamental Shapes?' in J. Ginsburg and I. Calboli (eds), The Cambridge Handbook on International and Comparative Trademark law (Cambridge University Press 2020) 421

Ng-Loy Wee Loon, 'Australian Legislation Abroad I: Singaporean Pragmatism, and the Role of Australian Scholarship in Singaporean Copyright Law' in Graeme W Austin, Andrew F Christie, Andrew Kenyon and Megan Richardson (eds), Across Intellectual Property: Essays in Honour of Sam Ricketson (Cambridge University Press 2020) 92

Journal Articles
Ng-Loy Wee Loon, 'Reversal of Burden of Proof in Patent Infringement Proceedings: The Curious Case of Singapore’s Implementation of Article 34 of the TRIPS Agreement' [2024] Singapore Academy of Law Journal

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  • Unfair Competition