We work with clients to make the most of their copyright and design intellectual property. This may include for example:
A McKinsey study found that 44% of directors said their boards simply reviewed and approved management’s proposed strategies—and only 10% felt they fully understood the industry dynamics they were governing. For IP-intensive businesses, that gap is expensive. Inventions, brands, data and know-how are often the…
A confidential drawing sent to you for a single, narrow purpose does not become yours to repurpose — and treating it as though it does can unravel an entire IP position. That is the strategic core of the Full Federal Court’s decision in Comino v…
A registered design buys you a finite head start, not a permanent moat. When it lapses, competitors are free — and, the law says, encouraged — to copy. The Federal Court’s decision in Bodum AG v H.A.G Import Corpn (Australia) Pty Ltd [2026] FCA 238…
Strip the case names away and one pattern runs through this month’s posts: the decisive moment in an IP matter almost never happens in the courtroom. It happens years earlier — in the words drafted into a claim, the honesty of a brand at first…
The European Commission has launched a call for evidence on targeted measures to modernise the EU copyright framework, with generative AI at the centre. It is asking, in plain terms, how rights should be licensed and enforced in the context of generative AI — and…
Last week a US federal judge delaying final approval of Anthropic’s proposed US$1.5B copyright settlement with authors and publishers over alleged use of pirated books in training its Claude models. The judge pressed for more detail on lawyers’ fees, payments to lead plaintiffs, and the…
