Intellectual Property Symposium 2022
As Australia recovers from the disruption of the global pandemic, strengthening your position with forward-looking IP strategies and adapting to ever-evolving challenges in the new reality is critical. Gain insights to the latest on trademarks proceedings, informal copyright licenses and brand jamming. Brush up on deciphering a patent specification, uncover strategies for protecting indigenous knowledge, and then delve into inventorship and ownership of patents. 223N13
Description
Attend and earn 7 CPD units including:
4 units in Substantive Law
1 unit in Ethics & Professional Responsibility
1 unit in Practice Management & Business Skills
1 unit in Professional Skills
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
Session 1
Trade Marks, Patents and Copyright Update
Chair: Paula Adamson, Deputy Director General Customer Services Division, Commissioner of Patents, and Registrar of Designs, Trade Marks & Plant Breeder's Rights, IP Australia
9.00am to 9.05am Opening Comments by the Chair
9.05am to 9.50am Trade Marks: The Role of Reputation in Prosecutions, Oppositions and Infringement Proceedings
- Case update
- How to prepare evidence of reputation
- How to use evidence of reputation to maximum effect
Presented by Edward Thompson, Barrister, 5 Wentworth Chambers
9.50am to 10.35am Update on Inventorship and Ownership of Patents
- Recent Federal Court decision on artificial intelligence: Thaler v Commissioner of Patents [2021] FCA 879
- International developments
- Practical considerations in relation to employee and contractor inventions
Presented by Angus Lang SC, Tenth Floor, Selborne/Wentworth Chambers; Best Lawyers 2022, Intellectual Property Law; Recommended Intellectual Property Senior Counsel, Doyle’s Guide 2021
10.35am to 10.50am Morning Tea
10.50am to 11.35am Deciphering a Patent Specification
Presented by Joseph Seisdedos, Director – Patent Attorney, Auctus IP
11.35am to 12.20pm Current State of the Law in Relation to Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property
- Overview and issues with the existing legal framework for protecting Indigenous Knowledge
- Recent developments and proposals for further reform in Australia and abroad
- Extra-legislative approaches including access and benefit sharing and other commercialisation models
Presented by Marion Heathcote, Principal, Davies Collison Cave; Best Lawyers 2022, Intellectual Property Law; Recommended Non-Contentious Intellectual Property Lawyer, Doyle’s Guide 2021
12.20pm to 1.05pm Copyright, IP Licensing and Confidential Information
- Software licences and copyright infringement issues
- Be wary of informal copyright licences: tips and traps on assignment and IP licensing
- Copyright risk areas from recent cases in property industry
- Emergence of ‘brand jamming’ Is a ‘fair dealing’ defence available?
- New media and digital content
- When are additional damages warranted for copyright infringement?
- Confidential information
Presented by Alison Jones, Special Counsel, Corrs Chambers Westgarth
1.05pm to 1.15pm Final Q&A and Closing Comments by the Chair
Session 2
CPD Compulsory Units for IP Lawyers
Chair: Miriam Stiel, Partner, Allens; Best Lawyers 2022, Intellectual Property Law, Litigation; Preeminent Contentious Intellectual Property Lawyer and Leading Non-Contentious Intellectual Property Lawyer, Doyle’s Guide 2021
Practice Management & Business Skills
2.00pm to 3.00pm Tips for Building and Enhancing Your Practice as a Trusted IP Adviser
Take away key themes and top tips for building your practice, from a leading practitioner with years of experience.
- Learn different approaches, skills and techniques that boost performance
- Key tips for serving your clients: barristers, law firm principals, solicitors, in-house counsel
- Business development = client/customer service = goodwill = future work
Presented by Odette Gourley, Partner, Corrs Chambers Westgarth; Best Lawyers 2022, Intellectual Property Law, Biotechnology Law, Life Sciences Practice, Litigation, Privacy and Data Security; Leading Contentious Intellectual Property Lawyer, Doyle’s Guide 2021
Presented by Alison Jones, Special Counsel, Corrs Chambers Westgarth
Ethics & Professional Responsibility
3.00pm to 4.00pm IP Lawyers and Attorney Competency and Communication: It’s All About the Client
- What does the Code of Conduct and Guidelines require?
- Are all clients the same?
- Acting on clients’ instructions
- Some illustrative hypotheticals
Presented by Paul Whenman, Partner, FB Rice
4.00pm to 4.15pm Afternoon Tea
Professional Skills
4.15pm to 5.15pm New Product Entry: The Process and Protection
- Crafting or responding to letters of demand
- Seeking ex parte injunctions to preserve the status quo
- Avoiding injunctive barriers to market entry
- Crafting your strategy
- Relevant cases
Presented by Melissa McGrath, Principal Lawyer, Coleman Greig Lawyers; Recommended Contentious Intellectual Property Lawyer, Doyle’s Guide 2021
Presenters
Paula Adamson
Paula commenced her career in Defence and has extensive experience across the public and private sector specialising in public policy, service delivery, organisational transformation and regulatory compliance programs. Paula joined IP Australia in 2016 as the General Manager of People and Communications Group before taking on the role of General Manager of Trade Marks and Designs. Paula also worked with the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet as the Deputy Coordinator of Critical Technologies Policy Coordination. Prior to joining IP Australia, Paula worked in the private sector for ten years with management consulting firms including EY, Fujitsu, SMS and RSM.
Edward Thompson
Edward practises principally in intellectual property matters, but has experience in a broad range of commercial disputes.
Admitted to the Bar in 2019, Edward obtained his degrees in Law and Arts from the University of Melbourne and a Master of Laws from University College London, graduating as the top student in the LLM program. Edward is presently undertaking a Masters of Computer Science.
Before commencing practice at the Bar, Edward was associate to the Hon. John Nicholas, Justice of the Federal Court of Australia and a solicitor for over 7 years in the IP department of a national law firm. He was also a lecturer in Corporations Law at the University of Melbourne.
Angus Lang SC
Angus specialises in intellectual property litigation. He has appeared in numerous patent, copyright, trade mark and trade practices disputes at trial and appellate level. He practises throughout Australia, primarily in the Federal Court of Australia, the Federal Circuit Court, and the patent and trade mark offices. Angus’ clients include market leaders in mobile telecommunications, pharmaceuticals, media, mechanical engineering and consumer goods. Mr Lang teaches intellectual property law at undergraduate and graduate level in Australia and Europe. He has published regularly in the field and is a member of the Law Council of Australia, Intellectual Property Society of Australia and New Zealand, and the German Australian-Pacific Lawyers' Association.
Joseph Seisdedos
Joseph Seisdedos, the director and owner of Auctus IP, has almost two decades of experience as a patent attorney in Australia and New Zealand, and has been a partner at a number of large Australasian firms. He has worked with a huge range of clients, from multi-nationals to start-ups and the proverbial “back yard inventor”. He has been involved in supporting some very large patent litigation cases and has particular experience in working with computer-related inventions. He also lectures at a number of Australian universities and is a regular speaker at industry and legal profession events.
Marion Heathcote
Marion has extensive experience in strategic trade mark portfolio management, protection and enforcement, in the Asia Pacific region where she is regularly recognised for her expertise in the trade marks area and IP rights issues, in particular those associated with the protection of geographical indications and indigenous peoples rights. Marion has served on the INTA Board of Directors and has received from them a 'Volunteer Service Award for the Advancement of Trademark Law'. She is also an active member of the Marques IP Outer Borders Team and co-authors the Australian Chapter of Lexis Nexis' International Pharmaceutical Law and Practice.
Alison Jones
Alison specialises in intellectual property and consumer protection law, and advises clients across all business sectors on a range of IP, regulatory and related areas including IP strategy, advising on commercial arrangements of various kinds and contract drafting, advertising and marketing, competition and consumer law issues, IP enforcement, and commercial regulatory (including food law, cosmetics, life sciences and therapeutic goods regulation, product liability risk and recall, privacy and data protection). Alison's experience in this area also includes secondments at leading companies in IP-driven sectors, including fast moving consumer goods and life sciences.
Miriam Stiel
Miriam has over 15 years' experience as an intellectual property litigator and is the Practice Leader of the Allens Intellectual Property, Patents & Trade Marks Attorneys group. She advises on all aspects of intellectual property law and has acted in court proceedings involving copyright, trade mark, patent and design infringement, breaches of confidential information, misleading and deceptive conduct and passing off. She has also been involved in proceedings in the Australian Patent and Trade Marks Offices and in international domain name disputes. She works with Australian and multi-national corporations from a range of industries, including media and entertainment, luxury goods, sport, technology, telecommunications, manufacturing and financial services.
Odette Gourley
Odette is one of Australia’s foremost intellectual property and regulatory lawyers with special knowledge and experience in the pharmaceutical and life sciences industries. Odette is an expert across the full range of IP including patents, trade marks, copyright, registered designs and trade secrets. In regulatory and advertising and marketing law her expertise include the Competition and Consumer Act, regulation for TGA, PBS, NHA, APVMA, AICIS, FSANZ, Gene Technology, Biosecurity, cosmetics, FOI including industry ethical and advertising codes for a wide range of products. Odette has acted in notable cases that have changed patents, administrative and trade marks laws.
Paul Whenman
Paul is a consulting partner in FB Rice Sydney chemistry team and has been a managing partner for 10 years. A qualified patent attorney, Paul has gained significant experience over his 37 years’ practice in FB Rice, in chemically related patents, including pharmaceuticals, animal health products, food technology, personal care products and alloys. His practice includes the interplay between the regulation of pharmaceuticals and animal health products and patent systems; and patent term extension regime in Australia and foreign jurisdictions. Paul regularly publishes articles in a variety of topics. He has been recognized as an IP Star for patent prosecution in Managing Intellectual Property for a number of years, and is also listed by IAM as a Strategy 300 IP strategist 2021.
Melissa McGrath
Melissa is a specialist Intellectual Property lawyer and Trade Mark Attorney with qualifications in both law and biochemistry and over 15 years’ experience. Melissa’s clients have included Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music, Warner Music, Navman Wireless Australia, Voxson, FMCG, media, life sciences and technology industries, with a particular interest in providing advice on patentable inventions and trade marks. Melissa also has experience in representing clients at trial, appeal and special leave to the High Court of Australia. Melissa has been recognised for multiple awards including the recommended Lawyer for Intellectual Property (Patents), Chambers Asia-Pacific, Intellectual Property, The Legal 500 Asia Pacific, World Trade Mark Review and Patents and the Intellectual Asset Management 1000.
Venue
Cliftons - Spring Street
Level 3, 10 Spring Street
Sydney 2000
NSW
Australia
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Directions
Nearby Public Transport:
Train Stations - Wynyard 400m OR Martin Place 500m
Bus Interchange - Clarence Street 450m
Ferry - Circular Quay 1.2km