Intellectual Property & eCommerce
Our integrated practice, combining legal and technical expertise, offers clients a one-stop shop for protection of their intellectual property from registration, through commercialisation to enforcement.
The Addisons' Intellectual Property & eCommerce team covers the full spectrum of intellectual property law in the areas of trade marks, designs, copyright and patents. Our lawyers are leaders in their field and act for some of Australia's and the world's leading corporations. We are experienced in both the non-contentious and contentious aspects of intellectual property protection. We understand the need for vigilance and the need to move quickly to enforce intellectual property rights.
Our expertise includes reviewing intellectual property portfolios for their integrity, devising cost effective and efficient protection strategies, advising on the exploitation of intellectual property rights, defending intellectual property claims, conducting intellectual property searches and obtaining registration for intellectual property in Australia and overseas.
Services include:
- anti-counterfeiting and brand protection
- trade mark searches, registration and litigation
- trade mark licensing
- registration and protection of designs
- copyright advice, licensing and litigation
- commercialisation agreements
- confidential information
- domain name registration and website issues
- intellectual property audits
- labelling
- licensing and sponsorship
- patent litigation and revocation proceedings
- patent applications and oppositions
- passing off and breach of section 52 of the Trade Practices Act
For further information please contact:
Karen Hayne, Partner
Martin O'Connor, Partner
Jamie Nettleton, Partner
Jennifer Lackersteen, Senior Associate
Hayden Martin, Senior Associate