Intellectual Property

Advising on all stages of the IP cycle, our team has significant experience in handling both contentious and non-contentious matters including complex intellectual property disputes for both domestic and international clients across broad range of industries. Gadens are well-regarded for our strong focus on our clients and their objectives, we maintain an impressive client base across numerous industry sectors allowing us to apply key learnings and insights across the full range of matters. With a team of outstanding practitioners, we regularly advise clients in relation to copyright, licensing, portfolio management, patent “freedom to operate” and infringement advice including high-profile copyright and trade mark disputes and litigation.

Work highlights:

• Our team has worked on significant trade mark matters in the last year such as acting for Alauda Aeronautics on its global trade mark prosecution strategy and the ongoing process of prosecuting a large number of trade marks for Alauda in Australia and throughout the world for its ALAUDA and AIRSPEEDER brands. 
• Gadens has acted for Lark Distilling on the substantial expansion of Lark's global trade mark protection across the Asia, Europe and North and South America
• Advises Bapcor on its Australian and New Zealand trade mark prosecution strategy and trade mark enforcement.
• Represented Chuchka in copyright infringement litigation initiated in the Federal Court of Australia, VID 521/2018, against it by State of Escape.