Alban Kang

Robinson LLC (Singapore)

He was the founding and Managing Partner of a boutique IP firm and retired from the firm in April 2023.  He has over 40 years of experience in intellectual property and commercial law.

He has represented clients in various industries including life sciences, technology, publishing, hospitality and travel in all aspects of commercial matters including setting up of businesses, intellectual property strategy, franchising and licensing and dispute issues. 

He has been lead counsel in complex patent litigation and other contentious IP-related cases, and have been involved in a number of high profile and precedent setting IP cases before the Singapore Court of Appeal and the Patent Office, as well as handling multi-jurisdictional IP litigation.

He has been ranked as a leading intellectual property lawyer by Asia Pacific Legal 500, IAM Patent 1000, Chambers Asia Pacific and IPAsia for many consecutive years. He is also a panel member of the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Centre, Asian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Centre; a Certified Mediator with the Singapore International Mediation Centre (SIMC) and Singapore International Mediation Institute (SIMI).  He is also on the panel Senior Mediators under the Law Society Mediation Scheme.

He had written many articles and authored several publications including the patents and registered deigns section of the Halsbury Law Singapore, Intellectual Property Vol 13 (including updates).