Focused strategies that protect, defend and exploit
Our lawyers know what it takes to protect a great idea or research breakthrough, and have the best strategies to license and commercialise your intellectual property.
Along with considerable expertise in the design and execution of IP commercialisation, our team has a busy copyright, trade marks and patent practice. We help clients fend off attempts to infringe on their intellectual property. And we're skilled in implementing effective anti-piracy and border protection campaigns.
We have advised
- F. Hoffman-La Roche on protection of its patent rights in the Tamiflu® antiviral treatment and prophylaxis.
- Microsoft Corporation on a world-wide freezing injunction and copyright infringement proceedings against Auckland-based software pirates.
- Fonterra Co-operative Group in its IP commercialisation, supporting and protecting Fonterra from the earliest stages of research collaboration to the licensing and manufacture of a wide range of technology.
- UBS AG (as plaintiff) in New Zealand High Court trade mark infringement proceedings.
- Procter & Gamble companies on the design and implementation of a New Zealand border protection strategy.
- New Zealand counsel to NYSE-listed Bally Technologies on its acquisition of the IP assets of Compudigm International.
- Microsoft Corporation on its New Zealand anti-piracy campaign and on digital copyright and technology issues and risks in New Zealand.
- Telecom New Zealand on matters such as copyright issues relating to converging technologies and the establishment of a novel and significant new e-commerce service.
- Licensors and licensees of computer software of the protections they must secure in their licensing arrangements.
- Local and international investors on investments in existing and start-up biotechnology companies.
- Technology transfer and licensing, including New Zealand developed innovative technology into China and other countries.
- The management and maintenance of substantial trade mark portfolios for a range of local and multi-national companies.