Intellectual Property

We provide various avenues and advice to safeguard our clients' interests in their intellectual property. Our legal experts provide technical advice combined with strategic plans for the best and well-rounded protection of intellectual properety rights. We can assist you by advising on selecting your business or product names; conducting searches of brand names and trade marks (in Australia or international); registering business names; maintaining existing trade marks, including renewals; assigning or transferring intellectual property; opposing trade marks and issuing trade mark infringement claims; defending and responding to intellectual property infringement claims; providing trade mark watching services; licensing intellectual property, etc.

Our legal experts are equipped with experience from patent advice and commercialisation to copyright and design advice. We advise our clients to register their unique trade marks, portfolio management, business names and domain names as well as marketing and advertising advice. Your branding is your business and brand name trade mark registration is ours. In the retail industry, customers associate your brand, from your business name to your logos and colours, with goodwill in your products. As your intellectual property lawyer, we will ensure that your trade mark is registered correctly in Australia or internationally, setting your business and products up for successful future growth well into the future.

We are experienced in representing our clients in court on patent infringement and invalidity, passing off and breaches of the Austrialian Consumer Law and infringement of trade marks, copyright and design rights. Our legal experts are well prepared to safeguard our clients' interest with dispute resolution and litigation. We can assist with all elements of protecting your brand, from company and trade mark registration, intellectual property trademarks, trade mark licensing, and copyright law to managing disputes. Enforcing an existing trade mark can be a powerful tool to protect goodwill in your brand. We also check trade marks with our trade mark watching services.