Marie Wong
I am an intellectual property lawyer and registered trade mark attorney – with over 20 years’ experience in intellectual property protection, enforcement and commercialisation. I assist clients on a daily basis with trade mark clearance and filing strategies, prosecution and enforcement, as well as with a broader range of contentious and non-contentious intellectual property related matters, including in copyright, designs, …
Rolf Van Wollingen
Whenever a client comes to seek protection for their intellectual property, I strive to understand the nature of their business and their commercial plans for the future. A registered patent attorney for more than 30 years, my aim is to help clients obtain protection for their intellectual property that will add value to their business and assist them in maintaining a …
Scott Vilé
I enjoy identifying and understanding clients’ inventions – and am skilled at developing commercially relevant IP strategies to protect innovations. I am a senior patent and trade mark attorney with over 23 years’ experience specialising in mechanical technologies in a variety of industries. As a practitioner, I have extensive experience drafting and prosecuting patent applications through to grant. I advise clients …
Janet Stead
I am an experienced patent and trade mark attorney having worked in this field for over 27 years, assisting clients protect their rights in Australia, New Zealand and internationally. Interestingly, I worked for Wrays for 12 years before starting my own patent and trade mark firm, trading as Janet Stead & Associates, which I operated for 11 years before returning …
Todd Shand
The combination of drafting and litigating patents gives me a unique perspective – one that, I believe, makes me a lot better at both. I’ve been a patent attorney for over 20 years. I have extensive experience in drafting, prosecuting and litigating virtually all patent types in the pharmaceutical industry, including new chemical entities, second (and subsequent) therapeutic uses, salts, …
Brendan Peachey
With several decades’ experience as a patent attorney, I have extensive experience in drafting and prosecuting patent applications. Having acted in patent litigation and patent opposition proceedings before the Federal Court of Australia and Australian Patents Office, I practise all aspects of patent attorney work – from drafting specifications for new inventions to enforcement work, as well as providing patent …
Andrew Mullane
I develop and implement strategies designed to achieve commercially-oriented solutions to the variety of challenges that clients face. I also advise clients on how they can mitigate potential issues before they occur. Every intellectual property challenge, and the context in which it arises, is different. My approach to addressing the issues is therefore always tailored to the circumstances. I work …
Judith Miller
As the firm’s Commercial National Practice Leader, I specialise in commercial and intellectual property law, drawing on more than 30 years’ experience advising on all aspects of the management and commercialisation of IP. The clients I work with span a variety of industries (with a particular focus on the research and development sector), predominantly for IP and content owners. I …
Linda Kennaugh
Prior to joining the patent profession, I spent ten years in research and completed my PhD in the field of biochemistry. During that time, I worked within the University of Western Australia on a number of research projects, including studying the role of various proteins in the development of respiratory diseases, investigating the role of cytochrome P450 and esterases in …