PATSY LAU, Trademark Attorney, Deacons, HK Patsy Lau is a partner at Deacons, the largest independent law firm in Hong Kong. She is qualified in Hong Kong and California. She holds a J.D. and a B.A. from the University of San Francisco. Patsy specialises in the protection of large multinational and regional trade mark portfolios. She has extensive experience in conducting trade mark audits and in advising on portfolio structure, brand clearance, brand management and filing strategy. Patsy’s practice also concentrates on complex trade mark disputes and negotiations, opposition, invalidation and rectification matters including trade mark appeals before the High Court. Patsy also advises on all forms of commercial transactions affecting trade marks from simple assignments to complex multinational licensing arrangements and conducting due diligence. Patsy has served on council of the Hong Kong Institute of Trade Mark Practitioners since 2002, and was the President between 2009 and 2011. She was a course leader and lecturer teaching intellectual property law at the University of Hong Kong SPACE. She is a regular speaker on trade mark issues at INTA events and other conferences. She has been a member of a number of INTA sub-committees for over 10 years. Patsy has been acknowledged as one of Asia’s Leading Lawyers in the area of Intellectual Property in the AsiaLaw Leading Lawyer Survey (2012 edition) and listed as a leading practitioner in the World Trademark Review 1000 (2011 and 2012 editions). She has also been nominated as one of the outstanding practitioners in the 9th edition of the Euromoney’s Guide to the World's Leading Trade Mark Law Practitioners (2012). .