Intellectual Property: Trade Mark & Copyright

Our Intellectual Property team specialises in all aspects of IP protection, helping clients to identify, acquire, exploit, manage and enforce IP assets.

Our clients include major manufacturers, technology owners and developers, listed life sciences and biotechnology companies, communications and media organisations, software developers and resellers, publishers, internet service providers, major retailers, franchise and distribution networks, advertising agencies, marketing companies, universities, and government departments.

We act for leading Australian and global brands to protect and commercialise intellectual property assets and, where necessary, enforce their rights within Australia and internationally.

Our services include: 

Commercialisation and licensing

Confidential information

Copyright

Designs

IP asset structuring

Patent litigation

Trade marks

Recent matters

• Assisting Queensland University of Technology with the global licensing of its QCAV-4 banana, the world's first genetically modified banana to be approved for commercial production.
• Advising Australia's largest fashion retailer Cotton On Group on extensive IP protection, including trade marks worldwide.
• Advising LifeStyles, a global sexual wellness business, on trade mark portfolio and protection around the world.
• Advising Healius, Australia's largest supplier of pathology and diagnostic services, on trade mark portfolio and protection.
• Establishing the Solving Plastics Waste Co-operative Research Centre.