Minnie Au is a paralegal in Nixon Peabody CWL’s Litigation and Intellectual Property Department in Hong Kong.
Minnie works all IP related matters from registration through to civil and criminal litigation. She has a solid common law and litigation background with experience extending to company structuring and shareholder disputes, matrimonial matters, as well as wills and probate.
Prior to joining the legal profession, Minnie worked as an analyst and programmer for various government departments and banks.
Currently, I primarily assist with regional trade mark filing programmes and IP/IT dispute resolution, including company name disputes as well as the technical aspects of patent litigation.
Artificial intelligence (AI) has already become a part of our everyday lives and is transforming the way we live and work. In areas where AI and intellectual property intersect, a number of challenges have been raised such as the patentability of autonomous machine inventions and the impact of AI on issues of trademark infringement liability. I anticipate that copyrights and trademark laws may need to be redefined in the age of AI to cope with the rapidly evolving trends.
