PRACTICE AREAS
Commercial Law
Technology and Intangible Assets including IP oriented agreements are my specialisation. I've seen every trick in the book - drafters of these agreements oftentimes contort and hide terms - I have a keen eye to spot these attempts to take more than negotiated. Instead, my approach is to use plain English and clearly define what is given and what is taken. I do not want my clients to buy a lawsuit. I want them to go forward, gain what they need and want, and get on with business.
Licensing, M&A, Purchase and Sales, R&D, Consent Agreements, Deeds
Strategy
Intangible Assets include IP. There are so many ways that a business can benefit from identifying what it actually owns by way of an audit - especially when anticipating a merger or acquisition. Apart from the obvious IP assets normally front of mind like patents and trade marks, there may be a pot of gold in your business when it comes to intangible assets like copyrights, trade dress (get up), goodwill, confidential information (such as data) and know-how. It is worth itemising these assets to add book value to your business. For example, Google booked its goodwill value at $29B in 2023.
Strategy further includes landscape (Freedom-to-Operate) analyses - by combing public databases learning the directions in which your competitors are moving with their innovations, a common practice among IP savvy companies.
Strategy also includes managing your own innovation with innovation tools.
Strategy involves building portfolios of registered IP rights.
The list goes on ...
IP Strategy, Intangible Assets Audits, Due Diligence, M&A, Dispute Resolution
Technologies
ICT, Software, Electronics, Mechanical and Industrial Arts
Having a background in Physics, I am at ease with the hard sciences
Patents, Designs and Trade Mark Law
I am registered as a US and Australian Patent and Design Attorney and Licensed to Practise Law in the State of Victoria so I can also perform trade mark registration services. I work with a large IP firm to file and docket my patent filings and a small IP boutique firm that dockets my trade mark filings. Each of these firms has overseas resources, including PCT and Madrid Protocol filings. I have written and prosecuted well over 500 patent applications and filed and prosecuted hundreds of trade mark applications, world-wide.
IP Strategy, Registered IP rights Portfolio Management, Prep and Pros, Oppositions, Litigation Support