Chair
Julie Robb, Solicitor and Mediator; Recommended Contentious Intellectual Property Lawyers Doyle's Guide 2023
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD hour in Substantive Law
OR
1 CPE hour for Trade Mark Attorneys
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
Leading Trade Mark Law Cases Raising Issues for the High Court?
- The Katy Perry Full Court Decision, reversing the trial judge, is the subject of a Special Leave Application to appeal to the High Court: Update on the latest developments
- The Full Court handed down its judgment in the Zip litigation in March 2025, again reversing the trial judge. Will this case, too, be headed for the High Court?
- What issues call for consideration by the High Court in Trade Mark law in the modern era?
Presented by Odette Gourley, Partner, Corrs; Leading Contentious Intellectual Property Lawyers, Doyle’s Guide 2024
Presenters
Julie Robb, Solicitor and Mediator, The Olive Rooms
Julie Robb is a specialist IP and commercial lawyer and an accredited mediator. She has advised and represented individuals, not-for-profits and corporations for over 35 years – first at a top tier national firm, then as Executive Director of the Arts Law Centre of Australia and for 18 years as partner and head of the disputes practice at a boutique IP and media firm in Sydney. Julie has litigated IP disputes in the Federal and State Courts, including for multinational clients in the enforcement of their registered shape and colour trade marks. A member of the Law Society of NSW Litigation Law and Practice Committee for 17 years until 2023, she is currently Deputy Chair of its ADR Committee.
Odette Gourley, Partner, Corrs Chambers Westgarth
Odette Gourley is a senior partner and market leading lawyer 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: Gallo Barefoot (trade marks), Hassle v Alphapharm (patents) and Peters Ice Cream (restraint of trade); in the Federal Court: AstraZeneca (doctor advertising of drugs); Winnebago (user principle damages for IP infringement), Johnsons Holiday Skin (substantiation of advertising claims by consumer research), Roche (scheduling scheme for therapeutic products), Novo v Cipla and Otsuka v Sun Pharma (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.
