What we do
Your Intellectual Property Lawyer and Commercial Lawyer in Far North Queensland.
Whilst I specialise in Intellectual Property Law (and am FNQ’s first and only registered Trade Mark Attorney), I also provide clients with strategic commercial advice that helps them maintain a competitive edge in business.
Below are the areas I commonly help clients with.
Intellectual Property Law
Intellectual property advice
Helping you protect your idea, design, copyright or brand, manage copycats, and stand up to people making false claims against you.
Trademark law
Making it easy for you to get the right trade mark registrations cost effectively, while also ensuring greater protection for your brand here and overseas.
Business names, logo & branding
I can also make sure you have freedom to use and don’t infringe on someone else’s trade mark (which can trigger costly litigation).
Pro tip
Some business owners try to do Trade Mark registrations themselves ‘on the cheap’, only to waste thousands of dollars in getting it wrong, or fail to get them altogether. There’s a reason why smart entrepreneurs get an expert to do it (so let’s do things the easy way, first time around).
Commercial Law
IP dispute resolution
Clarify your position so you can confidently deal with tricky situations you didn’t see coming or challenges to your IP registration goals.
Startups & Spin-offs
Set yourself up for success with advice on the right structure, governance documents, founder agreements, ESOPs, IP and commercialisation dealings.
Business transactions
Due diligence, contracts for acquisitions, investment documents for raising capital via shares, SAFE agreements or convertible notes.
Digital & Web3
Be ready to do business in the new age with advice on legalities of privacy, data, cookies, domains, websites, e-commerce, social media, software, end user licensing, technology and NFTs.
Commercial contracting
All that dull but critical paperwork such as NDAs, IP licences, terms of trade, distribution agreements, Terms & Conditions documents, contractor agreements etc.
Have any questions?
Or need some strategic commercial legal advice about something else? Just ask, as it’s always better to have a 15 min discussion now rather than a $50,000 bill later.