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Brian Elkington - Clayton Utz
Brian Elkington specialises in trade marks law and has extensive experience in registration, protection and enforcement of trade mark rights in Australia and around the world. Brian Elkington is co-author of the book entitled Trade Mark Law in Australia which was published by Butterworths in 2000.
Brian Elkington acts on behalf of a wide variety of clients on trade mark searches and prosecutions, removal actions, oppositions and infringement actions. He also provides advice concerning strategic development, oversight and protection of clients’ trade mark portfolios. Brian Elkington has significant experience in negotiating and drafting intellectual property licenses. In addition, Brian Elkington advises clients on acquisition and protection of domain names, including cyber-squatting disputes.
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- 19 Apr 2008 / 07:26 AM
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Rob Cutler - Clayton Utz
Rob Cutler specialises in commercial litigation, intellectual property and information technology litigation, Part V of the Trade Practices Act (consumer protection), marketing, anti-piracy and sponsorship. As an accredited mediator and skilled advocate, Rob Cutler has appeared in proceedings in the Federal Court of Australia, the Supreme Courts of New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory and the District and Local Courts of New South Wales. In addition, Rob spent four years managing the Clayton Utz Advocacy Program, teaching adversarial advocacy skills to Clayton Utz Partners, Senior Associates and Solicitors.
Before joining Clayton Utz, Rob Cutler worked in the litigation department of multinational law firm Clifford Chance. Rob Cutler’s clients appreciate his ability to communicate the legal essentials, ensuring that disputes and the negotiations to resolve them do not get bogged down and always remain focused on the key points of the deal.
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- 19 Apr 2008 / 07:25 AM
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John Collins - Clayton Utz
John Collins’s practice covers telecommunications, information technology and intellectual property matters. He is one of Australia’s most experienced technology litigators and has been involved, in some capacity, in most major Australian IT disputes.
John has advised and represented numerous international IT companies in their business dealings in Australia.
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- 19 Apr 2008 / 07:21 AM
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Melinda Upton - Blake Dawson
Melinda Upton practises in the area of intellectual property with a particular interest in trade mark and design law. Melinda Upton regularly advises local and international clients in all aspects of trade mark law including searching, prosecution, opposition actions, non-use/removal actions and licensing of trade marks, brand enforcement and protection including advertising and marketing matters, trade mark infringement actions, domain name disputes, consumer protection, copyright and designs.
Melinda Upton works with some of the leading brands in Australia and overseas and has assisted clients in industries as diverse as food, entertainment, financial services, publishing and hospitality.
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- 19 Apr 2008 / 07:15 AM
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Karen Gettens - Blake Dawson
Karen Gettens practices in the areas of intellectual property and communications, focusing in contentious and non-contentious copyright, IT & T and broadcasting matters. Karen Gettens’s clients include leading media, IT, broadcasting and telecommunications organisations. She has been involved in some of Australia’s ground-breaking test cases before the Federal and High Courts of Australia.
Karen Gettens has written articles on copyright and broadcasting law for Entertainment Law Review (UK), Australian Intellectual Property Law Bulletin, the Communications Law Bulletin and Asian IP.
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- 19 Apr 2008 / 07:08 AM
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Lisa Ritson - Blake Dawson
Lisa Ritson is Blake Dawson’s national IP Practice Head. Rated as a leading individual in Intellectual Property: Trademark and Copyright Law by Chambers Global, 2007, “Lisa Ritson increasingly attracted the attention of the market for her ‘prompt responses and astute business sense”‘ Chambers Global, 2008 and in Intellectual Property Best Lawyers International 2008: Australia.
Lisa Ritson is an internationally recognised IP lawyer and does a broad range of contentious and non-contentious intellectual property and e-commerce work including in the areas of trade marks, copyright, merchandising, marketing and advertising, sponsorship and endorsement, franchising, intellectual property licensing, passing off, confidential information, and consumer protection. Lisa Ritson is a “superb IP lawyer with an excellent practice” in both the contentious and commercial spheres Chambers Global, 2008.
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- 19 Apr 2008 / 07:03 AM
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Ben Miller - Blake Dawson
Ben Miller is a ranked as a ‘leading individual’ in intellectual property by Chambers Global 2008 and Best Lawyers International 2008: Australia. Ben Miller is considered the “go-to patents lawyer” in the Sydney office, clients reported in Chambers Global 2008. Ben Miller and his team act for a variety of clients with intellectual property and technology assets, including pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, medical device manufacturers, biomedical research organisations, food companies and manufacturers of household and consumer products.
Ben Miller’s practise includes drafting and negotiating technology transfer agreements, research collaboration, technology licensing and commercialisation agreements, particularly in the life sciences and biotechnology fields. Ben Miller advises pharmaceutical companies on regulatory matters including the conduct of clinical trials in Australia and he drafts and negotiates clinical trial agreements. Ben Miller also conducts IP due diligence for spin-offs and private and public equity raisings and other commercial IP transactions.
A substantial part of Ben Millers practice involves patent infringement and revocation litigation in the Federal Court of Australia and appeals from decisions of the Commissioner of Patents. Ben Miller also provides strategic advice on the use, exploitation and enforcement of IP rights.
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- 19 Apr 2008 / 07:01 AM
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Grant Fisher - Blake Dawson
Grant Fisher is a registered patent attorney and lawyer practising in the field of intellectual property for over 17 years. Grant Fisher is the practice leader of the Intellectual Property, Competition and Technology group. Grant Fisher has a degree in science with a major in chemistry. Grant Fisher’s practice focuses on patent oppositions, infringement and revocation proceedings before the Federal Court of Australia, particularly in the biotechnology, pharmaceutical and chemical fields. Grant Fisher frequently provides strategic advice on freedom to operate, patent revocation and enforcement to major biotech and pharmaceutical companies.
Grant Fisher has dealt with patent cases across a wide range of technologies, including stents, PDEV inhibitors, plant genetics, TNF inhibitors, signalling proteins and growth factors, vitamins, regulators of tissue growth, DNA polymerase, small molecules, including inhibitors and antagonists, gene sequences, sperm preservation, safety apparatus, refrigeration apparatus, water irrigation apparatus and packaging technology.
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- 19 Apr 2008 / 07:00 AM
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Peter Chalk - Blake Dawson
Peter Chalk practises in all fields of contentious and non-contentious intellectual property law. He is an experienced intellectual property litigator, particularly for patents and copyright, and has acted in intellectual property litigation in Victoria, New South Wales and England. Throughout his career, Peter Chalk has represented many international intellectual property owners in litigation in a number of jurisdictions.
On the non-contentious side, Peter Chalk regularly advises on matters such as freedom to operate opinions, patent extension of term, intellectual property licensing issues, research and development agreements, brand enforcement and anti-counterfeiting and intellectual property audits and due diligences. As one of the leaders of the firm’s trade marks practice, Peter Chalk also oversees the Australian and worldwide trade mark portfolios of a number of Australian and international clients.
From 1999 to 2001, Peter Chalk was seconded to the leading London intellectual property firm, Bristows. Peter Chalk’s experience also includes working as in-house intellectual property counsel for a major multinational FMCG sector company, advising on a wide range of matters including international intellectual property litigation, international trade mark portfolio management issues, domain name disputes, advertising and promotional matters, international cable and satellite television broadcasting arrangements, advertising media production, IT contracting arrangements and anti-counterfeiting measures. Peter’s combination of inhouse experience and work in the court system offers clients a unique combination of practical legal and commercial insight. This background means he is able to “get things done”.
Peter Chalk is regarded as “One of the most highly-acclaimed legal experts in the area of Intellectual Property in the Asia-Pacific region” – AsiaLaw Leading Lawyers Survey, 2006. Peter Chalk is consistently named as a leading individual for intellectual property, most recently in AsiaLaw Profiles, 2007, International Who’s Who of Trademarks Lawyers 2007, Euromoney’s Guide to the World’s Leading Trademarks Lawyers, 2007 and Best Lawyers International 2008: Australia. Peter Chalk was also recently named as a “Best Lawyer” for intellectual property in Australia.
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- 19 Apr 2008 / 06:55 AM
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Andrew Wiseman - Allens Arthur Robinson
Andrew Wiseman is an intellectual property and technology lawyer and has built his reputation through his work for high-profile international and domestic clients across many industries, including pharmaceutical, biotechnology, music, advertising, food and beverages, on patent, trade mark, confidentiality, copyright, marketing, distribution, licensing and many other issues. This has involved identifying, developing, protecting, commercialising, transferring and restructuring intellectual property and related assets.
From start-ups to blue chip Australian and international clients, universities and other government instrumentalities, Andrew Wiseman’s experience takes in the spectrum of arrangements from spin-offs, IPOs, mergers, stock and trade sales, franchising, pure licensing and other structural options. Andrew Wiseman has the benefit of a litigation and a commercial background and accordingly is strongly equipped to deal with issues from both a contentious and non-contentious perspective.
Companies benefiting from Andrew Wiseman’s strategic and commercial input on their intellectual property and technology matters include Pfizer, Schering-Plough, Dunkin’ Brands, Yum! Brands, Nestlé, Ricoh, G-Star, Seiko, Heineken Lion, Dairy Foods, Unica and IntraLinks. More recently, Andrew has assisted biotech companies (including start-ups) in Australia, including Human Genetic Signatures, Life Therapeutics, EnGeneIC and Ultraceuticals. Andrew Wiseman advises significantly on branding, labelling and other regulatory issues (including within specialist regulatory environments for the food and beverages and pharmaceutical industries – eg, Medicines Australia, ASMI and APVMA). This has included product liability and labelling product recalls and withdrawals. In the patent world, Andrew Wiseman has been involved in many infringement, revocation and opposition cases and has helped many owners of rights protect their rights and exploit them efficiently and effectively. Sony BMG Music, Sony/ATV Publishing and Sydney Symphony Orchestra and other entertainment businesses seeks Andrew Wiseman’s ongoing intellectual property advice and representation on copyright infringement and other litigation proceedings and in meeting the challenge of new technologies.
Andrew Wiseman has a strong franchising and distribution practice having assisted Baskin-Robbins, Ricoh and Dairy Farmers on the recent restructuring of their franchise operations in Australia and providing strategic advice to Jim Beam and Peugot Automobiles Australia in their operations in Australia and the Asian region.
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- 19 Apr 2008 / 06:45 AM
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