Dear Colleagues Wrays wishes all our friends celebrating the Lunar New Year much happiness and prosperity for the Year of the Dragon. We hope that it brings your families and businesses good fortune and great opportunities for the coming year. Wrays has strong connections with Asian regions celebrating the Lunar New Year having travelled to these regions to meet with …
Wishing You a Safe and Happy Festive Season
Dear Friends & Colleagues, As we enjoy the festive season, the team at Wrays would like to thank our clients and associates for their continued support during 2023. This year has been another successful year for Wrays. A milestone in the journey of our firm was the appointment of our new CEO, Paula Adamson. Paula joined Wrays from IP Australia …
Paula Adamson Career Blog
In this special edition of Franklin Women’s Career Profile series, Wrays CEO, Paula Adamson, talks leadership lessons, supporting the health and medical research community, and having the courage to make mistakes. What is your current role and how did you get to be there? I am currently the CEO of Wrays and we specialise in supporting innovation and economic growth …
Our Thoughts are with the People of Israel
To our Israeli Colleagues We were saddened to watch the recent devastating events in Israel and the inhumane attacks on the Israeli people. We send our condolences to all the victims, their families and their friends. We will continue to monitor the developments from Australia and keep you in our thoughts. Should you need assistance with the administration of your …
Get to Know Paula Adamson, CEO of Wrays
Wrays recently announced the appointment of our new CEO, Paula Adamson. Paula joined Wrays from IP Australia where she was most recently the Deputy Director General (Customer Services Division) as well as the Commissioner of Patents and Registrar of Trade Marks, Designs and Plant Breeders’ Rights. Get to know Paula in this introductory video as she shares her passion for supporting Australia’s economic …
Celebrating the Work of R U OK?
To celebrate the work of R U OK?, Wrays invited Kim Hughes, former Captain of the Australian Cricket Team, to share an honest account of the highs and lows of his personal life and time in cricket. Kim aptly described the lows as “the ball bouncing the other way.” Some of our favourite take-aways from Kim included: 🏏 There are three …
New CEO a Win for Wrays
One of Australia’s leading Intellectual Property Law Firms, Wrays, has today announced the appointment of a new CEO, Paula Adamson. Paula joins Wrays from IP Australia where she was most recently the Deputy Director General (Customer Services Division) as well as the Commissioner of Patents and Registrar of Trade Marks, Designs and Plant Breeders’ Rights. The high-profile appointment is a …
Congratulating Long-term Wrays Director on his Retirement
Please join the Board of Wrays as we congratulate and extend our best wishes to Director Peter Caporn who announced his retirement this week. Since joining Wrays nearly 30 years ago, Peter has been central to the development and growth of the firm’s Chemical practice, working with clients predominantly from the mining and resources sector to protect their innovative chemical, …
Congratulating our new Wrays Principal
It is with enormous pleasure that we announce the promotion of a new Principal in our Victorian practice, Dr Daniel Beck. Daniel specialises in chemistry, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology. Daniel joined Wrays in 2018 after 11 years working at the Australian Patent Office (IP Australia), where he supervised a multidisciplinary life sciences examination section of 24 examiners and issued decisions on …
INTA 2023
What a Week! We hope that everyone who attended INTA 2023 in Singapore has enjoyed the conference and the opportunity to catch up with their international network of intellectual property professionals. Wrays was widely represented at INTA by our team of 16 IP specialists from across Australia. We are incredibly grateful to our global IP colleagues who took the time to …