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George Hwang, Director of George Hwang LL.C, appointed as secretary of LES Singapore
26 May 2015 – George Hwang, director of George Hwang LL.C, a boutique law firm specialising in Intellectual Property and Entertainment and Media Law, has been elected as secretary of the Licensing Executives Society (Singapore) during the 16th...
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Dear All, Time Flies! We are in the final day of Lunar New Year. I have decided that I should be writing the firm’s annual newsletter after Chinese New Year, when everyone is more settled and it will not be snowed under by the rounds of...
Read moreThe Asian Entrepreneur: Interview with George Hwang
Doing business anywhere in the world it is advisable to have a good lawyer close at hand. In this interview, George Hwang shows that there is more to him then just being a lawyer. What’s your story? I started my own firm for various reasons...
Read moreGeorge Hwang LLC – Boutique Entertainment and Media Law Firm of the Year in Singapore
6 November 2015 – George Hwang LLC was conferred the Boutique Entertainment and Media Law Firm of the Year in Singapore award in the 2015 Corporate INTL Magazine Legal Awards on 5 November 2014. The nascent law firm which is eponymously...
Read moreSubmissions to the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore on its proposed changes to Singapore’s copyright law regarding equitable right to remuneration
Public consultation on proposed changes to Singapore’s IP laws (7 Oct 2014): Right of remuneration for the broadcast, playing or performing of sound recordings in public (Annex 8) It is submitted that one or some of the following be adopted: 1...
Read moreA Review Of WIPO’s Guide – In Good Company: Managing Intellectual Property Issues In Franchising
My firm, being a member of the Franchising and Licensing Association, we played our part in its annual Franchise and Licensing Asia trade fair by giving one of the “educational talks”. From its attendance, it iAs obvious that the interests...
Read morePersonal Data Protection: It is clearly a privacy issue
Lim You Xiang/George Hwang The Court of Justice of the European Union’s (CJEU) decision in Google Spain v AEPD and Mario Costeja Gonzalez made waves last month because it ruled that search engines are data controllers and extended principles of...
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Law Society’s Seminar on Data Protection
7 May 2014 – Two months before the full compliance date expected of private organisations, the Law Society of Singapore held a seminar on Personal Data Protection. This was the second in the run-up to the deadline of 2 July 2014. The first...
Read moreJudging the 7th Price Moot Court Competition
April 2014 Held at the University of Oxford, UK, the 7th instalment of International Rounds for the Price Media Moot Competition saw 35 teams from around the world pit their skills across four hectic days (1-4 April) of intense courtroom debates...
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