The Lavan Legal IP&T Team provide top-tier representation to a number of high profile Australian and overseas brand owners. The IP&T Team is committed to ensuring that its clients’ legal and commercial interests remain protected whilst providing a valuable return on investment in intellectual property protection. With expertise in preparing licensing and confidentiality agreements, the IP&T Team is able to give relevant and comprehensive legal advice on protection of confidential information and in particular, research and development in the biotechnology and information technology sector to ensure clients are able to exploit their intellectual property rights to extract maximum value.
The members of the IP&T Team strive to remain ahead of the market by keeping up to date on advancements and changes in the intellectual property field. The IP&T Team is made up of practitioners with a broad base of experience and interests ranging from science to pure advisory and commercial transaction work. The specialist IP&T Team at Lavan Legal is supported by an integrated in-house knowledge management team, which provides the IP&T Team with information and resources to assist in the development and provision of accurate and simplified legal advice on complex intellectual property issues.
Local and global service
If you are starting a new business or looking to protect your business' commercial reputation in Australia or overseas, the Lavan Legal IP&T Team can give you practical and cost efficient legal advice to help you to make the right decisions about your branding, exploiting your intellectual property assets, monitoring and enforcing your intellectual property rights in Australia and overseas. The IP&T Team have formed relationships with a number of overseas associates who work with the IP&T Team to give you advice on how to protect your intellectual property in most jurisdictions around the world.
The IP&T Team has extensive experience in securing trade mark protection both in Australia and overseas and can design a cost effective trade mark filing program for your company by relying on the broad experience of its practitioners and overseas associates. The IP&T Team is the full complement with a sophisticated litigation team experienced in defending and enforcing intellectual property rights in Australia, and through its associates, overseas. The IP&T Team can also give you advice on compliance with consumer legislation in Australia and assist your company to identify its intellectual property potential through intellectual property audits. The IP&T Team can also assist your company in obtaining and maintaining Australian business names, together with Australian and foreign domain names, to complement your intellectual property portfolio.
Exploiting your intellectual property
The IP&T Team is experienced in advising on and preparing intellectual property agreements to enable your business to grow locally and internationally. The IP&T Team has a knowledgeable and experienced team of practitioners who are able to prepare commercial contracts ranging from simple forms of assignment through to complex manufacturing, distribution, licensing and confidentiality agreements for use in Australia and overseas. The IP&T Team can also advise you on matters concerning electronic commerce and how your business is affected by privacy and spam legislation in a growing digital market.
Support to our clients
The Lavan Legal IP&T Team is committed to providing its clients with real solutions to challenging intellectual property issues. The IP&T Team offers clients benefits such electronic knowledge management systems or knowledge centres which enable clients to access information about intellectual property issues from their own premises including the implementation of specialised computerised linkage to data rooms for complex commercial transactions and the management of high level and complex litigation.
