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Intellectual property lawyer

Businesses of all sizes that have intellectual property at their core can benefit from a detailed intellectual property audit to ensure that they protect their biggest intangible asset.  Dundas Lawyers® has extensive experience working with businesses of all sizes to identify and protect and their intellectual property (IP) rights in copyright, trademarks, patents, registered designs and trade secrets.  Identifying and protecting a business’s intellectual property is the essential first step, maintaining its uniqueness by protecting and enforcing your businesses rights can involve intellectual property litigation.

We understand intellectual property rich businesses because we have started them, acquired them, run them, and sold them.  With our background in successful entrepreneurial business and front-line experience in innovation and IP-led ventures, we are perfectly placed to help such businesses to effectively commercialise their IP and scale.  We get IP because we’ve lived it.  Whether you are looking to leverage your businesses intellectual property or protect it because it been infringed, Dundas Lawyers® has you covered.

Does your business need an intellectual property audit?

An intellectual property audit (IP Audit) is a process that aims to identify and ensure that intellectual property assets (IP Assets) are protected to ensure long term business value.  The steps in the process are (generally) as follows:

Step 1Identify IP Assets – (Identification)
Step 2Assess how IP Assets are Created – (Creation)
Step 3Assess suitability of protection measures – (IP Protection):
– Contractual controls, third party contracts including R&D
– Physical controls
Step 4Understand how the IP Assets are leveraged – (Leverage)
Step 5Recommend and implement process improvements to protect and leverage IP Assets – (Improve)

Court decisions involving intellectual property by Dundas Lawyers®

Disclaimer
This page contains general commentary only about intellectual property audits.  You should not rely on the commentary as legal advice.  Specific legal advice should be obtained to ascertain how the law applies to your particular circumstances.

Why choose Dundas Lawyers® to complete an IP Audit?

Having exerted Blood Sweat and Years® since April 2010 we are the team you want on your side for the long term to act as the ‘bodyguard’ for your business to to protect its intellectual property or to stand up for your rights.  Some of the reasons clients choose Dundas Lawyers® include:

  • our Uncommon business acumen;
  • our Uncommon expertise in transactional, compliance and litigious matters;
  • our Uncommon expertise forensic case preparation;
  • our Uncommon customer focus;
  • the fact that we don’t just know law, we know business!
  • how we leverage our Uncommon Nous® to provide client centric solutions.

Considering getting an IP lawyer to complete an IP Audit?

For a confidential, no obligation initial telephone call to find out how we can help your business gain an uncommon advantage by completing an intellectual property audit, please phone our team on either 1300 386 529 or 07 3221 0013.


Malcolm Burrows B.Bus.,MBA.,LL.B.,LL.M.,MQLS.
Legal Practice Director
T: +61 7 3221 0013 (preferred)
M: +61 419 726 535
E: mburrows@dundaslawyers.com.au

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Recent Federal Court decisions regarding intellectual property audits

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    PRIVILEGE – legal professional privilege – advice privilege – where parties sought to establish a venture capital fund investment – where lawyers consulted in relation to the establishment and operation of the fund – where dispute as to which parties were the lawyers’ client – whether documents subject to legal professional privilege – whether documents…

  • Kutti Bay Investments Pty Ltd v Rattlejack Innovations Pty Ltd [2026] FCA 422

    PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE – interlocutory application for declaration that the applicant’s application to amend patents in suit is an abuse of process – whether the proposed amendments are seeking to circumvent earlier decisions of the Court with respect to related patents in the same patent family – held: application allowed in part

  • The NOCO Company v Brown and Watson International Pty Ltd [2026] FCAFC 44

    PATENTS – appeal from decision of primary judge dismissing applicant’s claim of infringement of patents for jump starter device, declaring patents to be invalid and revoking patents – whether primary judge erred in finding that certain claims would have been obvious to a person skilled in the art in light of the common general knowledge…

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