Join with the experts at the Intellectual Property Conference 2025 – engaging with essential concerns, including the implications of AI on copyright, Indigenous knowledge rights and Stand Alone Legislation and notable recent cases. Examine critical current issues within patents, trademarks and IP remedies in the digital age. You will gain a unique opportunity to advance your specialist expertise or expand your general IP understanding, and navigate the complexities of modern intellectual property.

Presenters

Paula Adamson, Chief Executive Officer, Wrays
Paula is the CEO of Wrays, bringing extensive experience from senior roles in both the public and private sectors. Previously, she served as Deputy Director General for IP Australia, overseeing the administration of IP rights, and was the Commissioner of Patents and Registrar for Trade marks. Paula also held a position in the Prime Minister and Cabinet Department focused on critical technology policy. She is passionate about supporting Australia’s innovation economy, collaborating with research institutes and start-ups to protect intangible assets and foster economic growth.


Justine Munsie, Partner, Addisons
Justine Munsie is a Partner at Addisons, specialising in media and intellectual property law. She represents clients in the media, entertainment, advertising, and gaming sectors, providing strategic advice on content, branding, and marketing issues. Justine's expertise includes navigating complex legal frameworks relevant to her clients' operations. Her reputation in the industry underscores her commitment to excellence in IP and media law.


James Lawrence, Partner, Addisons
James Lawrence is a Partner in Addisons' intellectual property team, focusing on IP advisory and litigation. He has been recognised in Best Lawyers and Doyle’s Guide for his expertise in IP and biotechnology law. James is identified as a Leader in IP by the World Intellectual Property Review and serves as the Editor of the Patents chapter in Halsbury's Laws of Australia. His contributions to the field include regular publications and presentations on IP issues.


Peter Le Guay, Partner, Thomson Geer Lawyers
Peter is an expert in intellectual property and advertising law, with over 25 years of experience in protecting and enforcing clients' IP rights and advising on advertising claims. As a registered trade mark attorney, he manages IP portfolios for global organisations and conducts due diligence audits while negotiating complex licences and assignments. Peter is also an accomplished litigator, regularly appearing in the Federal Court on IP disputes and consumer protection issues. He advises on marketing strategies, including promotional terms and privacy regulations, and provides guidance on digital marketing and data use.


Alison Jones, Special Counsel, Corrs Chambers Westgarth
Alison Jones is a Special Counsel at Corrs Chambers Westgarth, focusing on intellectual property, competition, and consumer law. Her broad expertise encompasses IP protection, commercialisation, advertising compliance, and regulatory issues across various industries. Alison has extensive experience advising leading companies on food law, life sciences, and product liability matters. Her background includes client secondments in global corporations at the General Counsel level.


Donna Short, Partner, Addisons
Donna Short is a Partner in the intellectual property group at Addisons, guiding clients through the entire IP lifecycle from innovation to enforcement. Her practice spans contentious and non-contentious matters, with expertise in trade marks, copyright, IP commercialisation, advertising compliance as well as privacy and data protection. Donna is ranked in the Chambers Global and Asia Pacific Guides for her work in IP and is noted as a leading trade mark professional in The World’s Leading Trademark Practitioners 2024 for enforcement and litigation, prosecution and strategy and transactions.


Odette Gourley, Partner, Corrs Chambers Westgarth
Odette Gourley is a guru in intellectual property law and related areas. In the course of her substantial career, Odette has been in leading trade mark and patent cases including in the High Court: the Gallo Barefoot case (trade marks), the Hassle v Alphapharm (patents) and Peters Ice Cream (restraint of trade) cases; in the Full Federal Court: AstraZeneca on doctor advertising of drugs; in the Federal Court: Winnebago (user principle damages for IP infringement), Johnsons Holiday Skin (substantiation of advertising claims by consumer research), Roche (scheduling scheme for therapeutic products) and Novo v Cipla (patent term extensions). Odette has extensive industry knowledge including in relation to life sciences and pharma, food and beverages, consumer products and a range of other regulated industries. With her knowledge and experience, Odette advises and litigates across the full range of intellectual property law and associated areas including regulatory law (including privacy), administrative law, and competition and consumer law.


Michael Hall SC, Nigel Bowen Chambers
Michael Hall SC is a prominent barrister specialising in commercial law, particularly intellectual property, equity, and real property disputes. Admitted to the Bar in 1999 and appointed Senior Counsel in 2014, he has worked on high-profile cases, including major defamation and trade mark disputes. Michael frequently appears in the Federal Court and has contributed to legal education as a co-author of significant texts on trade mark law. His diverse background includes roles as in-house counsel and university lecturer.


Sophie Dawson, Partner, Johnson Winter & Slattery
Sophie is a Media, Entertainment and Technology partner with extensive intellectual property, privacy and disputes experience.  Sophie’s copyright experience includes acting for Nine Entertainment in litigation in which it successfully resisted an interlocutory injunction application by another media organisation in relation to a reality television cooking show,  acting for two of the world’s leading computer games companies in relation to authorisation by modders of copyright infringement by end-users of popular computer games. She has also acted for IT companies in relation to strategic intellectual property issues arising in contentious matters.  Sophie also acted for Samsung in relation to its 3G Telephony patent claim against Apple. Sophie is recognised as a leading TMT: Media lawyer in directories including Legal500 and Chambers AsiaPacific.  She is co-author of Thomson Reuter’s Media & Internet Law & Practice, and is a member of the advisory board of the UTS Centre for Media Transition.


Katrina Chambers, Partner, Thomson Geer
Katrina Chambers is a Partner in Thomson Geer's Intellectual Property and Information Technology team.  Her practice includes licensing and commercialisation of IP, assistance with IP ownership and structuring issues, research and development collaborations, alliances and joint venture arrangements, the sale and purchase of IP assets and companies, IP audits and due diligence, regulatory compliance, franchise law, privacy law, manufacturing, supply and distribution agreements, general contracts law and commercial and corporate law.  Her clients come from a wide range of private and public industry sectors including life sciences, medical devices, health, information technology, government, university and energy and resources.  Katrina has been rated by Doyle's Guide as a Leading IP Lawyer in Queensland and is also recognised by Best Lawyers in the categories of Intellectual Property Law, Biotechnology Law, Commercial Law, Professional Responsibility Practice and Franchise Law.


Patricia Adjei, Director, Stand Alone Legislation, Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and the Arts
Patricia is a Wuthathi, Mabuiag Islander and Ghanaian woman from Sydney, Australia. She is the Director leading the standalone legislation at the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts. Previously, Patricia was the Head of First Nations arts at Creative Australia. She has a Bachelor of Arts and Law from UNSW and the 2022 UNSW Alumni winner for her contribution to art and culture. She was also a 2018 Churchill fellowship recipient, investigating the practical application of laws in the USA and Panama that protect Indigenous cultural rights. Patricia has served on the City of Sydney, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander advisory panel, Beyond Blue RAP advisory committee and has been a Board member of the Contemporary Pacific Arts Festival, Sunshine Coast Council art committee and the Moogahlin Performing Arts Board. She is currently on the RAP advisory committee for Intrepid Travel. Trish also previously worked as a lawyer at the Copyright Agency, Arts Law Centre of Australia and National Indigenous TV. Patricia was the 2010 WIPO Indigenous intellectual property law fellow and has attended WIPO IGC meetings on TK since 2007. She is also a published author, having written several articles and a chapter on Indigenous cultural intellectual property rights.