Trademark and Intellectual Property
What is Intellectual Property?
Intellectual Property (IP) is the unique creation of a person and includes inventions, literary and artistic works, symbols, names, images and designs used in trade and commerce.
IP can be categorised into the following:
- Industrial property, which includes inventions, trademarks, industrial designs and geographic indications of source; and
- Copyright, which includes literary and artistic works such as novels, poems and plays, films, musical works, artistic works such as drawings, paintings, photographs and sculptures and architectural designs.
How we can assist you with Intellectual Property
We offer a breadth of experience in assisting clients with the following:
- Registration of Trademarks in Australia and globally under the Madrid Protocol
- Responding to Trademark examiner’s reports (where trademarks are rejected)
- Prosecution of Trademark opposition proceedings for both applicants and opponents
- Negotiation and settlement of Trademark oppositions and disputes
- Prepare applications for the removal of Trademarks for non-use purposes
- Management of Australian and international Trademark portfolios
- Facilitating the renewal and maintenance of Trademarks
- Trademark infringement and competitor monitoring