Ms. Duong Thi Thuy serves as a critical consultant of the Patent & Industrial Design Department at KENFOX IP & Law Office, where she brings a rare blend of technical acumen, systematic thinking, and strategic legal insight. With a strong foundation in intellectual property law and a deep understanding of innovation-driven industries, Ms. Thuy delivers tailored, results-oriented solutions that help businesses safeguard and capitalize on their technical inventions and creative designs. Her work spans the full IP lifecycle – from prior art searches, application drafting, and portfolio management to overcoming office actions, handling oppositions, and enforcing rights – ensuring that intellectual property becomes a powerful and agile business asset for her clients.

Expertise and Advisory Value

• End-to-end advisory – from concept to enforcement: Ms. Thuy provides comprehensive services, including clearance and registrability searches, filing and prosecution, portfolio management for patents/designs, as well as handling refusals, oppositions, invalidations, and enforcement actions, ensuring continuity and consistency in an enterprise’s IP strategy.
• Deep technological insight – design acuity: Combining technical analysis with creative assessment, she helps clients identify and protect core technical features while optimizing design protection across sectors such as manufacturing, consumer goods, medical devices, and high technology.
• Practical, innovative legal solutions: Ms. Thuy is distinguished by her ability to tailor flexible legal strategies to each client’s business model, product cycle, and market plan, ensuring that IP is not only protected but also effectively commercialized.

Client Service Effectiveness

• Strategic partnership – beyond advisory: Ms. Thuy approaches matters from the client’s vantage point, focusing on needs, risks, and growth objectives to deliver practical, feasible IP solutions that create long-term value.
• Complex matters – swift and precise response: Drawing on experience with refusals, oppositions, and disputes, she demonstrates agility, judgment, and sharp legal argumentation to safeguard clients’ interests in complex legal environments.
• Portfolio optimization – competitive advantage: Ms. Thuy supports scientific management of patent and design portfolios, optimizing protection costs, strengthening defensive capacity, and expanding opportunities for collaboration and technology transfer.

Role at KENFOX IP & Law Office

With Ms. Thuy joining the Patent & Industrial Design Department, KENFOX enhances its capacity to deliver specialized legal services and shape forward-looking IP strategies, reinforcing its position as a leading IP partner in Southeast Asia.