I provide legal services to clients in a broad range of IP-intensive industries. These industries combine commercial transactions such IP licences and assignments and services agreements (including contract development and manufacture), as well as research collaborations, IP due diligence, patent strategy, protection of confidential information, consumer law and privacy advice. Before returning to private practice I was in-house counsel at …
Andrew Goatcher
I have over 30 years experience advising and acting in complex commercial litigation, including intellectual property matters. For the past 25 years, I have advised a diverse range of clients in a wide variety of disputes, almost all of which have involved IP rights. Disputes in which I have advised and acted have included patents, registered designs, trade marks and …
Daniel Beck
My former experience at the Australian Patent Office (IP Australia) provides me with an insider’s perspective on patent prosecution and oppositions to grant, as well as prior art searching and examination practice in Australia. During the 11 years I served at IP Australia I supervised a multidisciplinary chemical examination section of 24 examiners and issued decisions on the validity of …
Robert Cross
I enjoy new technology and the enthusiasm of many inventors – and I seek to add value by working directly with the inventors, ideally as an active part of a team. As senior patent attorney with many years’ experience, I initially handled the full spectrum of IP, specialising in Australian originating metallurgical and mechanical patent work, but also extending to …
Jennifer McEwan
As a specialist in trade mark law and consumer protection, I provide my clients with advice regarding all facets of trade marks including strategic advice, trade mark registration, due diligence work, infringements and disputes. In 2017 I joined the team at Wrays from a specialist IP firm I co-established. Having began my working life as a research scientist at Murdoch University, …
Albert Ferraloro
With both private practice and in-house experience, I am able to provide practical guidance and commercial advice in a number of different roles relating to the management and protection of intellectual property. With over 30 years’ experience in the IP space, I assist clients with the management of, and strategic considerations around, commercialising and extracting value from their valuable IP …