IP services - Phillips Ormonde Fitzpatrick

Our Services



Protection of your 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 patent attorneys and other professionals are equipped to fully understand your organisation, your technology and your related IP needs.

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:

  • 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:
- freedom-to-operate (infringement) searches
- patent mapping
- patentability searches
- trade mark registrability searches
- competitor investigations and monitoring
- subject matter or case specific watches

  • 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

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