Australia

Firm overview

Madderns is a leading, privately-owned Patent and Trade Mark Attorney firm that protects the intellectual property assets of innovative businesses, organisations and individuals. Headquartered in Adelaide but reaching across Australia and internationally, our experienced team of attorneys provides highly-specialised intellectual property services and advice to enable our clients to secure and defend their brands and technologies. As intellectual property specialists, we work closely with our local and international clients to identify their unique needs and protect their interests in Australia, New Zealand and other overseas markets. For more than 50 years, we have supported the varied needs of a diverse client base that ranges from global companies and overseas IP firms to small to medium enterprises and individual innovators. Whether it’s a patent, trade mark, a design or domain name, our experienced team, many having PhD qualifications in their field of expertise, is on-hand to provide strategic and commercially relevant advice to support you in protecting your intellectual property. At Madderns, we’re driven to help you succeed. We build long-term relationships to ensure the intellectual property assets of our clients are protected in their markets.

Firm overview

With extensive global reach and deep local expertise, we offer an unparalleled
blend of skills to help our clients navigate the complexities and seize the
opportunities of doing business in Singapore and across the Asia Pacific region. Baker McKenzie Wong & Leow, a joint law venture between Baker McKenzie and
Wong & Leow LLC, stands at the forefront of legal excellence.

We have the capabilities to offer comprehensive advice on both domestic
Singapore law and intricate cross-border issues, ensuring our clients receive
holistic and seamless legal support. As the preferred counsel for numerous
companies leveraging Singapore as a strategic hub for their regional operations,
our lawyers excel in managing multijurisdictional transactions and mitigating
cross-border risks with precision.

Our Singapore office is seamlessly integrated into a global network,
providing on-the-ground expertise across ASEAN countries and access to
Baker McKenzie’s expansive international network. This unique positioning
enables us to adeptly support the diverse domestic and international needs
of our clients, delivering tailored solutions that drive success in a dynamic
global market.

Firm overview

King & Wood Mallesons (“KWM”) is a full service international law firm with one of the largest IP practices in China. KWM has consistently ranked by Managing Intellectual Property as Tier 1 in six practice areas of patent prosecution, patent disputes, trade mark prosecution, trade mark disputes, IP transactions and copyrights among Chinese firms. We are also highly ranked by other respected legal media.

KWM offers a market-leading IP dispute resolution and enforcement practice in China. We provide clients with seamless IP services spanning from judicial review of administrative decisions to civil litigation over patents, trademarks, copyrights (including computer software), domain names, and unfair competition (including trade secrets). We are dedicated to working closely with clients to develop, protect, and maximise their IP value. Clients turn to us for their bet-the-company IP litigation, and we have consistently delivered great results, including recording-setting damages awards. Our IP litigators have successfully represented domestic and overseas clients in numerous administrative review cases, trials, and arbitration proceedings. Many of the cases have been selected as top 10 IP litigation cases of the year and exemplary cases by China’s Supreme People’s Court.

With over 400 patents attorneys, patent agents and patent engineers, we cover the whole gamut of technical fields in patent preparation and prosecution in China and around the world. These technical areas include telecommunications, computer science, semiconductor, internet technology, electronics and power, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, biotechnology, chemicals, materials, automobiles, mechanicals and designs.

By working with some of the biggest and most ambitious brands, we understand that what clients want and can offer a holistic solution based on business and legal considerations. We have a global team of experienced attorneys to help protect clients’ trademarks and brands. We also help Chinese and international companies of different sizes to manage their copyright portfolios. Our clients come from various industries, including publishing, media, music, film and television, architectural design, artwork, industrial manufacturing, clothing and jewelry and the internet.

Our IP transactions team provides comprehensive and tailor-made IP services to support clients’ business planning, restructuring, technology upgrading, investment and financing, as well as mergers and acquisitions. In particular, we provide cradle-to-grave services, including pre-investment survey, transaction structure design, transaction document preparation, and integrated operations. Our team helps clients identify and mitigate risks arising from target IP assets. Our team also assists with the operation and transfer of IP assets, such as IP licensing, assignment, co-development, and IT outsourcing. Our team is adept at IP audit, patent portfolio management, technology brand planning, trademark portfolio management, and optimisation of IP ownership allocation. Our team advises enterprises on pre-IPO preparation, including disclosure of information on the nature of technological innovation, related-party transactions, and core personnel.

Firm overview

Over the last century we’ve been lucky enough to have played a part in protecting some of the world’s most ground-breaking inventions and high profile brands. You can trust us to know IP law inside out, to be curious, and to connect the dots to reach solutions others don’t.

We will provide you with a team, rich in real-world experience, comprising experts who have worked at the forefront of pioneering technologies. A substantial number of our lawyers hold qualifications in scientific or technical fields, meaning we are often called upon for our specialist knowledge and insight on large international mandates. We are respected for our creative and original solutions.

We offer both litigation and transactional support in relation to all IP rights, from small innovative projects to the largest, most complex and ground-breaking transactions and disputes.

Our approach has always been centred on client service, collaborating and innovating with our clients to create bespoke solutions that make their lives easier. This includes: our 'twobirds Pattern' product, a proprietary, in-house patent valuation and analysis tool, that allows us to landscape, analyse, and value patent portfolios in an automated and sophisticated way; and our innovative and dynamic Brand Protection Reporting Portal, which uses dynamic charts that give clients an up-to-date overview of their risk profile at any given time.

Talk to us to find out how our tools, experience and our genuine passion for IP can help you devise a strategy that will help to maintain your competitive edge, whilst protecting and optimising your IP in the best way possible.

Internationally Bird & Bird has over 400 IP lawyers, attorneys and legal professionals across our 29 offices, many of whom have known each other and worked together for years, meaning we're all on the same page and offer consistency and quality that runs through all levels of seniority. We are therefore ideally placed to devise and coordinate multi-jurisdictional litigation strategies and,in the future, to represent clients before the Unified Patent Court.

Office Locations: Australia, Belgium, China, Czech Republic & Slovakia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates and United States of America