Stay compliant, confident and protected in your IP practice. In this practical ethics session you will examine how ethical issues arise in Trade Marks and Patent matters, particularly in conflict‑sensitive situations involving former clients or connected parties, using recent cases to highlight risks and practical ways to manage them.
Thursday, 28 May 2026
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD unit in Ethics and Professional Responsibility
12.00pm to 1.00pm Ethics for Trade Marks & Patent Attorneys
- Sources of obligations
- Unique conflict of interest issues applying to IP practitioners
- Acting for or against friends, relatives and former clients or their rights
- Case studies, recent cases and the lessons learned
Presented by Glenn McGowan KC, Special Counsel, Gadens; Recommended Leading Contentious Intellectual Property VIC Lawyers, Doyle’s Guide
Presenters
Glenn McGowan KC, Special Counsel, GadensGlenn McGowan KC is a Special Counsel at Gadens, with over 40 years of experience in practice, almost exclusively in the superior and appellate courts. He spent 27 years at the independent Bar, taking silk in 2004, before joining Gadens in 2015 as its inaugural Chief Counsel. His practice is heavily dominated by large intellectual property cases (patents, trade marks, copyright, confidential information, trade practices and designs), mostly in the Federal Court, involving all areas of technology, including chemistry, software, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, engineering, polymers, etc. Glenn is a qualified mediator and arbitrator. He appears in and advises in general commercial disputes in all courts, briefed by Gadens and other firms. He regularly appears in ranking publications (Doyles, etc) for contentious intellectual property, trade marks, patents, biotechnology and class actions.
