Our Services
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A comprehensive, IP strategy can make all the difference to the success of your business. Strategic protection of your IP rights can provide you with greater control and can prevent an infringement before it commences.
Obtaining patent and trade mark protection can be expensive – however, in the context of R&D and marketing costs, and market share protection - it is a worthwhile investment. Protection of your valuable IP provides you with the opportunity to be rewarded, through commercial exploitation or royalty payments. Extensive, well-protected IP portfolios can also often lead to options for cross-licensing deals with other companies.
With years of combined IP experience, together with research, industrial and commercial experience, our specialist professionals are equipped to fully understand you, your technology and your related IP needs.
Through our tried and true filing strategies, cost effective approach, and our commercially attuned advice, we can offer you an efficient and well-planned IP strategy so you get the most from your ideas.
We value your creativity, skill, ingenuity and innovation – let us help you make the most of it.
Key intellectual property services we provide to protect and manage your patents, trade marks, designs, and other IP rights, within Australia and throughout the world include:
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- Identification of your intellectual property
- Development of cost effective and commercially useful strategies to protect your IP, both locally and globally
- Conducting various types of IP searches and watches, including:
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 | - freedom-to-operate (infringement) searches
- patent mapping
- patentability searches
- trade mark registrability searches
- competitor investigations and monitoring
- subject matter or case specific watches
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- Comprehensive patent specification drafting services, in all fields of technology
- Preparation and lodgement of patent, trade mark and design applications, both in Australia and overseas
- Preparation of drawings using our in-house draftsman
- Dealing with examiners’ objections to patent, trade mark and design applications, both in Australia and overseas
- Advice on the validity of the IP rights of others
- Advice on the infringement of patents, trade marks and designs
- Conducting opposition proceedings to defend or oppose the grant of patents, trade marks and designs
- Enforcement of IP rights through the Courts in Australia or elsewhere
- Global patent, trade mark and design litigation and prosecution services
- Licensing and contract advice
- Formal IP management activities, including portfolio audits, assessments and reports
- General commercialisation advice through IP Organisers
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Click on one of the links above to learn more.
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