Our patent team provides a full service patent law and registration practice. Our lawyers have an enviable track record in achieving the commercial goals of our clients in cost effective and efficient manner.
Many of our team are experienced patent attorneys. The majority also hold technical and scientific qualifications in areas relevant to our clients, eg chemistry, computer science and biotechnology (some at PhD level). This enables us to understand and protect the technology underpinning a research project or a commercial transaction or patent litigation.
Internationally recognised as a leader in this practice area, we focus upon:
- providing search and freedom to operate advice
- drafting and filing patent applications in a broad range of technologies
- managing patent portfolios on a national and international basis
- conducting patent audits
- commercialisation of technology including structuring and licensing strategies
- developing and implementing enforcement and defensive strategies
- conducting oppositions or opposition defences before IP Australia
- conducting infringement and revocation litigation services in the courts.
We advise clients in a range of industries including pharmaceutical, biotechnology, chemical, engineering, food and beverage, agrochemicals, financial services, IT and electronics. We work with many leading companies including Alphapharm, PhotoCure, Mayne Pharma, Delta and Pine, Westvaco, Inverness, Phosphagenics, Australian Stem Cell Centre, Orica, PPG, BlueScope Steel, Telstra, Sensis, Microsoft and several financial institutions.
Our team have established relationships with leading US patent attorney and law firms and European patent agents and law firms. This enables us to deliver a truly global patent perspective to clients.
Our lawyers have developed their legal, scientific and business skills at leading companies and research institutions. Our diverse skills enable us to fully understand and support client needs. As a consequence, we provide technically excellent patent advice and stronger negotiating positions for clients which results in them achieving the best outcomes in a cost-efficient manner.
Unlike our competitors, our patent attorneys and lawyers are not split into separate firms. Also, all our patent attorneys are dually qualified as lawyers which provides continuity for clients who prefer one point of contact.
So why use our integrated patent group?
- When drafting patents we know what is important for future commercialisation or litigation activities.
- During commercialisation we know how to assess a patent portfolio and litigation risks.
- When litigating we know how a patent should be drafted and the significance of actions taken during the patenting process.
See Representative matters for examples of cases where we have acted.
“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