Pipers Patents & Trade Market Attorneys
Solicitors in Brisbane

providing excellence through understanding" - australian & new zealand patent and trademark attorneys patent attorneys, trademark attorneys, and design attorneys with over 15 years of experience in protecting and enforcing our client's intellectual property. We offer a free initial consultation with one of our attorneys to discuss options moving forward to protect your intellectual property. We pride ourselves on providing a complete range of patent, trademark and design services that are timely and cost effective. At all times we strive to provide personalized services to meet the goals of every person and business, as each case is unique. We work with some of the largest global innovators as well as local inventors. Our team has expertise in a wide range of technology areas, biology, electronics, physics, computer science, chemistry, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, chemical, electrical, which include: mechanical, and more. Our team of intellectual property specialists and support staff are highly experienced in extracting value from intellectual property assets. Call today.

Our team consists of highly adept patent and trade mark experts covering all major areas of technology including chemical, pharmaceutical, veterinary, biotechnology, life sciences, environmental sciences, engineering, mechanical, electronics, manufacturing, food technology, IT, software and business methods. Pipers prides itself on being a sociable and approachable steady with a possible yet professional attitude. Our aim is to work collaboratively with our clients to produce the superior plausible strategies and solutions in respect of their intellectual property needs. We give new clients a beginning meeting free of charge, which enables you to acquire some good basic knowledge about AP and to decide on what course of action is superior for you without the fear of incurring a fee. With over 40 years of experience in the intellectual property industry, Pipers has the expertise to aid in all matters of intellectual property, no matter how big or small. Our clients include important international companies, universities, ME's, begin up companies and individuals. We promise to listen to your needs, receive the time to face with you, and to bear definite and frank advice ardor opinions tailored to your needs, and clear estimates of costs and expected tomorrow expenditure.

We are a specialist firm of Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys with offices in New Zealand and Australia, and powerful relationships with intellectual property professionals in all other jurisdictions. International trade mark registrations can now be filed in New Zealand. He also has extensive experience in trade mark law and practice, and intellectual property searching. Ian is based in Pipers Melbourne office, where he practices in all aspects of intellectual property law and related commercial matters (including drafting intellectual property related agreements such as licenses, assignments, confidentiality agreements, and product and technology development agreements). Quinn also conducts local and international trade mark searches and legal research relating to all areas of AP. The proposed invention must be the correct type of subject matter, be new, inventive, skillful and the owner of the invention must have definite title to ownership of the invention. We also aid our clients in respect of patent infringement matters where a patent owner alleges a third party has infringed a registered patent. Pipers have worked with them to protect their invention and branding in many countries. A trade mark is generally not registrable if it is descriptive of the goods or services you are trading in or not sufficiently distinctive, so when choosing a trade mark it is superior to choose something that is not normal to the industry, and that is not directly related to or associated with your goods or services. A trade mark is also not registrable if there is an alike or confusingly same mark already on the register in respect of the same or similar goods or services, so it can be a appropriate idea to conduct a trade mark search prior to investing too much in brand development. Our advice will generally be based on our knowledge of the types of trade marks which are registrable, and if requested, a thorough search of the apropos trade mark databases. The design must be novel in relation to the article and in Fresh Zealand this means that is must not have been obvious in Fresh Zealand before the date of the first application for design registration. What is a design registration? Nor do they require a related New Zealand trade mark. This includes claim(s) determined as novel, inventive and industrially pertinent in PCT labor products. Both the trial Judge and the Court of Appeal held there would be no direct infringement. Applying this test the Supreme Court found Actavis to infringe. It was also asserted that infringement can arise even when the variant was not known