Our intellectual property team provides comprehensive, pragmatic and solutions-focused advice. We guide our clients through the web of intellectual property that seeps into different areas of their business, including commercial contracts, corporate structure, tax and employment. We have significant expertise in protecting, enforcing, exploiting and commercialising intellectual property, stemming from our team’s longstanding experience servicing clients both nationally and globally.
What we do
Our client base is diverse, operating in a range of industries, and includes recognised household name brands. The team’s key strengths cover all the essentials, including:
- Protection: strategic asset protection and liability mitigation advice, including structuring advice and tax components in consultation with appropriate experts.
- Prosecution: intellectual property infringement (and related claim) advice in both enforcement and defensive capacities, including all stages of litigation and dispute resolution.
- Trade marks: intellectual property portfolio management, registration and management of trade marks, business names and domain names.
- Due diligence: audits and assessments to identify assets and underlying ownership and usage rights, due diligence and assistance with preparation for and execution of major national and multi-national transactions.
- Regulatory compliance: regulatory procedural assistance, compliance advice, and advocacy work in respect of IP Australia processes as well as other advertising, consumer, and industry-specific regulators including the ACCC, ACMA, and the ASB.
- Commercialisation: assisting our clients to commercialise their IP assets effectively and efficiently through all stages of the commercial life cycle, including everything from bespoke, complex commercial contracting and negotiation assistance to R&D and advertising/labelling compliance advice.
Understanding the reputational risks associated with brand infringement actions, we work closely with our clients to achieve commercially favourable outcomes.
