Robert Cooper

Practice Areas

Robert has 30 years' experience in handling all aspects of intellectual property and lead our national IP team. He specialises in assisting clients with IP disputes, patents, trade mark matters (including registration), confidential information, licensing and IT disputes.

Robert has successfully acted for numerous clients over several decades in patent disputes in areas such as pharmaceutical compounds and processes, mining equipment, medical devices, business methods, methods of treatment, mobile telecommunications and 2-way radios, ink-jet cartridges, multi-valent vaccines, mechanical devices, heavy engineering and various consumer goods. He has decades of experience in acting in substantial multi-jurisdictional patent disputes for patentees and revokers, in the Federal Court, Full Federal Court and Australian Patent Office.

Robert advises numerous clients on strategic patent licensing issues and especially where relationships become strained or disintegrate and IP ownership disputes arise.

Robert is a registered trade mark attorney and manage the trade mark protection needs of a range of Australian and International clients. He has successfully acted for trade mark owners in numerous Federal Court trade mark disputes.

In conjunction with his Australian litigation expertise, Robert holds a Masters degree in computing, a diploma in IP Law and is qualified to practise in England and Wales. He puts his computing Masters to use in regularly advising clients in IT disputes.