Today, patents and other intellectual property rights are essential exclusive rights which underpin deals in all fields of technology around the world.
As well as our extensive patent registration and dispute resolution services, we offer a wide range of commercialisation services to help you manage risk, protect your rights and capture value in technology related transactions in Australia and abroad.
Typically these services include:
- structuring and tax advice and associated company incorporation documentation
- technology and IP due diligences
- confidential disclosure agreements
- joint venture agreement and other collaborative agreements
- research and development agreements
- licenses and assignments
- supply and distribution arrangements
- materials transfer agreement
- clinical trial agreements
- IP ownership documents
- employment and services agreements
- government grant materials
We can help you successfully plan, document and implement your commercial technology transaction. We have helped mature technology companies, tertiary institutions, start ups and government based authorities with their technology transactions. This experience ranges across a wide variety of industry sectors including:
- chemical
- pharmaceutical
- IT
- telecommunications
- ecommerce
- engineering.
We have particular skills in assisting clients commercialise technology in highly regulated industries such as life sciences and telecommunications.
Many of our team hold technical and scientific qualifications, so our lawyers quickly understand the technology underpinning a transaction. In this way our documentation is appropriately tailored to those industry norms. Some of our lawyers are also members of committees of leading Australian research institutes, particularly in the areas of commercialisation and research.
“Clients return to the practice here time and again for its ‘responsive and accommodating advisers’, who are just as at home whether dealing with contentions or non-contentious matters.”
Chambers Global Guide 2006-2007