Description
Attend and earn 1.5 CPD hours in Substantive Law
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
10.50am to 11.35am Patents Update
- Aristocrat v Commissioner of Patents: Where to from here?
- Support and sufficiency post Jusand v Rattlejack
- Impact of Thaler for AI inventions
Presented by James Lawrence, Partner, Mills Oakley; Best Lawyers 2022, Intellectual Property Law, Biotechnology Law; Recommended Contentious Intellectual Property Lawyer, Doyle’s Guide 2022
11.35am to 12.20pm Registered Designs and IP/Competition Law Overlap
- Recap on registered designs reforms and the recent cases: Where are we up to?
- ACCC guidance on IP use and licensing
- Patent settlements and cartel risk
- Enforceability of restraints of trade clauses in IP licences
- Unfair competition and other competition watch outs
Presented by Alison Jones, Special Counsel, Corrs Chambers Westgarth
Presenters
Mr. James Lawrence, Partner, Mills Oakley
James Lawrence is an experienced intellectual property (IP) advisor and litigator. He is a Partner in Mills Oakley's IP team in Sydney where he specializes in the management of IP disputes. James has been recognised by his peers having been listed for both IP and biotechnology law in the Best Lawyers directory, for contentious IP in Doyle’s Guide as well as being recommended for IP in The Legal 500 Asia Pacific. He is also identified a Leader in IP by the World Intellectual Property Review. James is the Editor of the Patents chapter in Halsbury's Laws of Australia and regularly publishes and presents on IP issues.
Alison Jones, Special Counsel, Corrs Chambers Westgarth
Alison Jones is a Special Counsel in the intellectual property practice of Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Australia’s leading independent law firm. Alison specializes 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.
