Intellectual Property

Your brand, your ideas and your creative work are often the most valuable things your business owns. We help you protect them early, use them commercially and enforce your rights when someone takes what is yours — always with the same practical, cost-conscious approach we bring to every matter.

How we help

• Trade marks — searches and clearance advice, applications with IP Australia, responding to examination reports, oppositions and renewals.
• Copyright — ownership of creative and digital works, website and software content, photographs and marketing material.
• Designs and patents — design registrations, and working alongside registered patent attorneys on inventions.
• Licensing and assignments — agreements that let others use your IP on your terms, and transfers when buying or selling a business.
• Confidential information — non-disclosure agreements and protecting know-how when working with staff, contractors and partners.
• Infringement disputes — letters of demand, negotiated outcomes and, where necessary, proceedings to stop infringement and recover loss.
• Domain names and online brand protection — disputes over domains, social media handles and copycat businesses.