Sze-Mei Yeung

English Translation

楊詩媚, 律師

楊詩媚是 Richards Buell Sutton LLP 的合夥人，本所亞太組的主任。她是我們知識產權、高級教育研究和商業業務組的成員。楊律師 在技術、知識產權和公司-商業法領域代理客戶，重點是許可協議、軟件開發和經銷協議、特許經營和收購。她還擔任一家大型技術公司的常駐法律顧問，曾參與在加拿大、美國和英國的收購和特許協議。

楊律師 通過 Sze-Mei Yeung Law Corporation 提供法律服務。

楊律師 有以下方面的代理經驗：

技術和知識產權

• 在許可協議方面代理大學、研究和醫療機構，包括公司分立許可生物技術、知識產
  權和專利管理等事宜
• 關於臨床試驗協議向醫院、大學和機構提供諮詢，有關問題包括醫院、大學、研究者
  和讚助者各自的責任、賠償、公佈結果和保險
• 處理軟件許可和電子商務問題，包括軟件開發協議、諮詢協議、網站開發協議、應用
  服務提供商協議、軟件託管協議、原始碼託管、原始設備製造商（OEM）和增值轉售
  商協議、域名轉讓協議、支持和維護協議、網站使用條款、銷售條款和隱私政策
• 準備專利、商標、和版權許可協議，處理商標和版權侵權問題，包括禁止函

特許經營

• 代理地區和全國的特許商，準備和審查特許經營及有關的協議，就與主要供應商的
  經銷協議、終止現有加盟商、在特許協議下行使優先承購權等問題提供諮詢
• 代理加盟商建立和執行新的特許權，購買和銷售現有的特許生意
  公司-商業
• 股份和資產收購，包括售前重組、競業禁止和誘引禁止協議、售後延續至其它管轄
  區、合併協商和準備股東協議、合資協議、製造和經銷協議

社區:

主持人, 加拿大律师协会知识 产权法部門會議: 版權更新版, 五月2015
理事身份
溫哥華海岸地區醫管局董事
卑詩省醫療設備行業協會，前理事

OVERVIEW

Sze-Mei Yeung is a partner and leader of the Intellectual Property Practice Group at Richards Buell Sutton. She is also a member of our Asia Pacific, Advanced Education and Research and Business Transactions Practice Groups. Sze-Mei is also the chair of our firm’s Equity Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Committee.

Sze-Mei represents clients in the areas of business acquisitions, technology, intellectual property and corporate-commercial law, with a focus on mergers and acquisitions, licensing and technology transfer agreements, copyright issues and franchising. She has presented on licensing and corporate-commercial issues to organisations including the Canadian Institute, the ACCT Canada Innovation Leaders Forum, and to Canada’s Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre.

She also previously worked as in-house counsel at a publicly-listed communications and information company that provides operational solutions to commercial and government organizations worldwide. She was directly responsible for acquisitional due diligence, drafting and negotiating licensing and acquisitional agreements in Canada, the US and the UK.

Sze-Mei provides legal services through Sze-Mei Yeung Law Corporation.

REPRESENTATIVE CLIENT WORK

Technology and Intellectual Property

• Represents universities, research and clinical institutions with respect to license agreements, assignments, inter-institutional agreements, affiliation collaborative research agreements, including the spin-off of companies licensing technology, intellectual property ownership, patent management issues and dealing with related university policies
• Represents universities with respect to copyright compliance, including developing copyright policies, guidelines, copyright consents for implementation with faculty, staff and students, and application of fair dealing and other user rights under applicable copyright laws
• Deals with software licensing and e-commerce issues including software as a service agreements, software development agreements, consulting agreements, website development agreements, application service provider agreements, software hosting agreements, source code escrow, OEM and value-added reseller agreements, domain name transfer agreements, support and maintenance agreements, website terms of use, terms of sale and privacy policies
• Preparation of patent, trademark and copyright license agreements and dealing with trademark and copyright infringement issues including cease and desist letters

Business Transactions and Corporate-Commercial

• Business acquisitions via purchase and sale of shares, asset and hybrid transactions, including pre-sale reorganizations, non-competition and non-solicitation agreements, post-sale continuation into other jurisdictions and amalgamations
• Represented various vendors of multiple dental clinics located in Prince George and Fort St. John by various corporate dentistry groups, via hybrid asset and share sales
• Represented various franchised purchasers and vendors of retail pharmacies located throughout the province of B.C., including advice regarding termination of franchise agreements and obtaining franchisor consent to purchase and sale
• Represented franchised vendors of retail automotive service businesses (specialising in oil changes and other automotive maintenance), including advice regarding termination of franchise agreements and obtaining franchisor consent to purchase and sale
• Advising on shareholder agreements, joint venture agreements, manufacturing and distribution agreements

Franchising

• Acts for regional and national franchisors with respect to preparation and review of franchise agreements and franchise disclosure documents, advising with respect to distribution arrangements with major suppliers, termination of existing franchisees and exercising rights of first refusal under franchise arrangements
• Represents franchisees, advising with respect to franchise agreements, franchise disclosure documents and related ancillary documents
• Member of the Canadian Bar Association (B.C. Branch) Special Committee that prepared written submissions and recommendations with respect to the Franchises Act (British Columbia)

PROFESSIONAL & COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

Sze-Mei served on the Board of Vancouver Coastal Health Authority from March 2015 to December 31, 2017. Vancouver Coastal Health Authority is a regional health authority providing health care services and administering health facilities to over one million B.C. residents within a geographic area that encompasses Vancouver, Richmond, the North Shore, Whistler and other Coast Garibaldi areas. She was also previously a director of the Vancouver Coastal Health Research Corporation which is the corporate trustee of the Vancouver Coastal Health Research Trust.

HONOURS & AWARDS

Sze-Mei has been recognized by Best Lawyers® in the area of Technology Law for the 2020 – 2024 editions, and Intellectual Property Law in the 2021 – 2024 editions. Inclusion in this publication is based entirely on peer-review.

Garibaldi areas. She was also previously a director of the Vancouver Coastal Health Research Corporation which is the corporate trustee of the Vancouver Coastal Health Research Trust.

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