Our workshop will address important questions including:

1. How you can best protect your intellectual property?
2. What are your options when it comes to commercialisation and licensing?
3. What is the best structure for your business?
4. Will regulatory requirements affect your commercialisation strategy?

We hope to see you there! Please feel free to pass this invitation onto anyone else you know who might benefit from coming along to this session.

Event details: 25th March

Time:

12:30 pm Melb/Sydney time

Webinar

Via Zoom - links will be sent to each participant by LESANZ 
Complimentary attendance

The speakers

Christopher Wilkinson

Partner

Madderns & LESANZ Secretary

Chris is a partner at Madderns working across ICT, AI/ML, medical device and space sectors. He assists clients to identify and protecting their IP both in Australian and overseas, and draws upon his diverse technical background having worked as a researcher in astrophysics, explosives, and bioinformatics. This helps him to engage with inventors and to then apply his knowledge of the IP system to assist them to meet their commercial goals. Chris is also the national secretary of LESANZ which is a professional society for those working in the commercialisation space, and regularly provides educational seminars on IP.

Milena Dryza

Senior Associate

Madderns

Milena is a patent attorney at Madderns. She has a PhD in organic chemistry, and has had the privilege of working in leading IP firms, as well as in-house at a global biotechnology company. Milena’s IP experience includes: assisting clients to identify and capture their IP; assessing and developing the commercial value of patent portfolios; drafting and prosecuting patent applications; developing effective strategies to navigate competitor’s patents; and advising on IP issues in collaborations.

Katherine McNaughton

Senior Associate

Maddocks

Katherine has extensive experience in acquisitions and disposals, corporate advisory work, general commercial matters, not for profit organisations and government clients. Katherine specialises in advising clients in the healthcare, pharmaceutical, medical technology, aged care, retirement living and disability sectors. Katherine’s experience includes advising on complex domestic and cross-border transactions having practised in Australia, Hong Kong and the United Kingdom, as well as advising clients on corporate governance, commercial contracting and compliance matters.

Katie Pryor

Senior Associate

Maddocks

Katie is an intellectual property lawyer with expertise across sectors including medical technology, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals and engineering. With a degree in Science (majoring in Pharmacology), her practice has a particular focus on matters relating to complex technical subject matter. Katie has advised various multinational clients on IP commercialisation, transactions, enforcement and freedom to operate. She has acted in a number of global patent disputes, involving proceedings before the Federal Court of Australia, High Court of Australia, UK High Court and Court of Appeal and the European Patent Office.