Fashion & Intellectual Property Book Launch in Hong Kong

On Thursday 11 September 2025, Professor David Tan, lead editor of Fashion and Intellectual Property, kicked off a series of book launch events beginning in Hong Kong. Prof Tan is also a Co-Director of the Centre for Technology, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence & the Law (TRAIL) at NUS Law.

Joined by chapter contributors Professor Jyh-An Lee and Dr Jingwen Liu, the book launch at the Bank of America Tower was co-organised by the Centre for Centre for Legal Innovation & Digital Society (CLINDS) at CUHK Law and the EW Barker Centre for Law & Business at NUS Law. Associate Professor Tianxiang He (City University of Hong Kong) and Dr Haifeng Huang (Jones Day) provided commentary on the book. Profs Lee and He are also academic fellows of TRAIL.

The book – Fashion and Intellectual Property – is published by Cambridge University Press, and it assembles some of the best-known IP scholars around the world to present their analysis of how different aspects of intellectual property laws interact with and regulate the fashion industry.

It covers key features of intellectual property rights regimes in the United States, United Kingdom, Europe, Australia and Asia that include copyright, trademarks, patents and geographical indications. This collection is curated and edited by David Tan (NUS), Jeanne Fromer (NYU) and Dev Gangjee (Oxford), featuring contributions from the editors and other scholars such as Barton Beebe, Christopher Sprigman, Robert Burrell, Emily Hudson and Martin Senftleben. The book is available in hardback edition and also as open access on Cambridge Core.

L-R: Professor Jyh-An Lee (CUHK), Dr Jingwen Liu (CUHK), Professor David Tan (NUS Law),
Associate Professor Tianxiang He (City University of Hong Kong) and Dr Haifeng Huang (Jones Day)

At the Warren Chan Moot Court, CUHK Graduate Law Centre

Prof Tan explaining the relevance of post-postmodernism to legal doctrine

Prof Lee enjoying a light-hearted moment in the discussion of shanzhai goods

Dr Liu explaining the difference between knockoffs and counterfeits

A/Prof He giving a comprehensive review of the book

Dr Huang offering his perspective from a practitioner’s viewpoint

Book cover of Fashion and Intellectual Property by Singaporean artist Andre Tan