Expertise

Biotechnology

The protection and management of intellectual property in biotechnology is fundamental to its successful commercialisation. With rapid advances in areas such as bioinformatics, proteomics, nanotechnology, and functional and structural genomics, the Biotechnology Team of Phillips Ormonde Fitzpatrick is continually evolving to meet the worldwide trends and challenges of the biotechnology industry.

Our attorneys are experienced researchers with extensive postgraduate experience in areas such as:

The team is well equipped to fully understand biotechnology developments and their unique IP needs. Our attorneys have the technical expertise to understand and describe biotechnology projects to maximise their commercial value.

Our Biotechnology team is highly regarded both in Australia and overseas and represents a variety of clients from multinational companies to start up groups. 

Our Biotechnology Team

Debra Yin Foo Partner, Biotechnology Team Leader Melbourne Debra completed her PhD in Biochemistry after working on oxygen radical generation in cells of the immune system in the presence of organochlorine pesticides. She completed a Post Doctoral Fellowship in 1989 in molecular biology in Lausanne, Switzerland. She joined the firm in 1989, was registered as a patent attorney in 1994 and became a partner of the firm in 1999. Debra is the coordinator of the firm’s Biotechnology team.   To find out more about IP issues relating to your technology, please contact Deb at debra.yinfoo@pof.com.au.

You can see all our practitioners with Biotechnology expertise here.