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Macrossans Lawyers has significant expertise in the field of intellectual property (IP) including copyright, trademarks, patents, designs and confidential information. We keep abreast of the rapidly changing economy to provide practical advice on how to protect your businesses' information in an Internet-driven world.
Our legal staff advise on all aspects of IP including:
- Copyright, trademarks, patents, designs and confidential information
- Protecting IP through contractual arrangements including agency, joint venture agreements and employment contracts.
- Structuring IP ownership to capture intellectual assets and attract investors
- Managing IP portfolio, strategic analysis and commercialisation of IP assets
- Negotiating licence and other commercial agreements
- Legal advice in relation to structure of spin-out and start-up companies
- Advising, drafting and negotiating software development and licensing agreements
- Negotiating, drafting and reviewing e-commerce agreements including website development and hosting agreements, privacy statements, domain names and click-through agreements
- Negotiating, drafting and reviewing agreements in the telecommunications and ISP sectors including agreements for interception capability, facilities access, telephony resale, broadband network construction, telecommunications equipment supply and support, telehousing, data warehousing
- Drafting documentation to support applications for carrier licensing and broadcast licensing
- Conducting due diligence of intellectual property in connection with buying/selling a business or an interest in a business.
Our experience
- Registering trademarks for many organisations including Datadot, Guide Dogs Queensland, Root Barrier and Robina Town Centre
- Developed contracts to protect IP rights for a company to be floated in the United States for commercialisation of patents for trees and other plants for creation of carbon sinks
- Acted for businesses alleging infringement of their trademarks, patents and copyright in a number of different industries ranging from furniture design, residential builders through to electronic sales data
- Provided advice in a number of international mining ventures including some located in Papua New Guinea, New Zealand and China
- Protecting IP in joint venture between Sugar Research Institute and the Queensland University of Technology, as well as contracts for an international training program for child psychologists, and software and computer maintenance contracts.
For further information, please contact Robin Lonergan.
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