Michelle C.Y. Loi

Practice Areas

Data Compliance & Cybersecurity

Healthcare & Life Sciences

Intellectual Property

Telecommunications, Media & Technology (TMT)

Career

Michelle is a Partner in the IP Department of Shearn Delamore. Michelle represents clients in all areas of IP litigation namely, trademark, copyright, design, passing-off, geographical indication, trade secrets as well as complex patent cases involving pharmaceutical/life sciences, medical devices, oil palm and gloves, amongst others. She is often involved in precedent-setting cases in the Federal Court. She also advises and defends clients in prosecution matters involving amongst others, Control of Drugs and Cosmetic Regulations 1984. Her experience in IP litigation gives her added insight and context when it comes to advising her clients on other IP areas including trademark prosecution, advisories/agreements, and enforcement.

Vis-à-vis advisories/agreements, her experience includes not only IP-related agreements but also e-commerce and IT/software agreements. Michelle also advises on domain name disputes, franchising (compliance), gaming and food regulations and personal data protection. She has been invited to speak on personal data protection on numerous occasions including conducting refresher courses on this topic.

Michelle was a STAR scholar with a Second Class Upper Honours in law from the Uni of London in 2002. She was one of the top students in the Certificate in Legal Practice with a Second Upper in 2003. She was called to the Bar of the High Court of Malaya in August 2004.

Michelle is the immediate Past President of the Licensing Executives Society of Malaysia. She is also a trainer in the Advocacy Training Course organized by the Bar Council as well as one of the Asian Arbitration International Centre (AIAC)’s Panelists of the Domain Name Dispute Resolution for the term 2021-2024. She is also actively involved in the IP Committee of the Bar Council.

Michelle Loi is The Legal 500 Asia-Pacific’s recommended lawyer for 2014, 2017, 2018 and 2019 and is also named by Asia IP (2015) as one of the 50’s Asia-Pacific’s “Licensing Lawyers You Should Know”. Recently, she was accorded Silver Tier by the World Trademark Review in enforcement and litigation. Michelle is a regular contributor for the Malaysian Chapter for Katzarov’s Manual on Industrial Property. She also co-authored the Malaysian Chapter of Franchising in Asia published by Lex Foundation (2015) and has been consistently requested to provide updates for franchise in Malaysia.

Professional Memberships

• Immediate Past President, Licensing Executives Society of Malaysia

• Member, Intellectual Property Committee of the Bar Council Malaysia

• Trainer, Advocacy Training Course, Bar Council, Malaysia

• Panelist, Domain Name Dispute Resolution (2021-2024), Asian Arbitration International Centre (AIAC)

• Member, Competition Committee of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Malaysia

• Member, Bar Council Malaysia

Publications

• Co-authored the Patent chapter of the Thomson Reuters’ “Law and Practice of Intellectual Property in Malaysia” (2025)

• For the past at least 5 years, Michelle is a regular contributor for the Malaysian Chapter for Katzarov’s Manual on Industrial Property.

• Michelle co-authored the Shaping Up Trademark Laws A Good Sign? (Aug 2021)

• The Rise of Merck and the Fall of SKB Shutters (Oct 2019)

• Malaysia: Merck finally shuts the door of SKB Shutters (Oct 2019)

• Copyright Issues Arising from Photos of Architecture (Mar 2019)

• MALAYSIA: Court Rules on Sections of TMA and Goodwill Across Borders (Sept 2018)

• Malaysia -Market Surveys After Liwayway (Nov 2017)

• Michelle co-authored the Malaysian Chapter of Franchising in Asia published by Lex Foundation (2015)

• Franchising in Malaysia (Franchising in Asia, Legal & Business Considerations) (Oct 2013)

• Malaysia Resists International Influence