Samantha Waldon

Saturday, 27 August 2011 12:02

Lawyer

Samantha joined Dilanchian in mid-2009 after 15 years experience as an arts educator.

This included a Certificate IV in Assessment and Workplace Training and a Graduate Diploma of Further Education and Training.

This experience in visual media and conceptual thinking, followed by a degree in law, make her very suited to practice in copyright, trade marks, confidential information and other fields of intellectual property law.

Experience

Samantha's legal experience covers a wide range of areas of commercial law and IP and IT law:

• Trade mark registration and intellectual property dispute resolution
• Business law litigation
• Intellectual property auditing and licensing, including for software
• Drafting contracts for a range of business needs, including distribution of products, hiring employees, engagement of independent contractors under commission arrangements, shareholder agreements
• Contract and business documents preparation, standardisation, and management
• Copyright, brand and patent advice and trade mark and design registration
• Commercialisation of technology, intellectual property and inventions and innovation advice in particular in the technology, IT, Internet, e-commerce, publishing, film and television, and media industries
• Structuring enterprises - employee and contractor agreements; the sale, purchase and franchising of businesses

Industry

Samantha's industry experience includes:

• Software distribution and web development
• Professional services
• Not-for-profit organisations
• Wine
• Fashion
• Publishing and advertising

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