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Commercialisation & Knowledge Management

Providing technology commercialisation and planning advice and preparing legal documents for a patent pending airconditioning invention.
Designing the business model and preparing an international agency contract and an Australian distribution contract for commercialisation of a medical device.
Providing a management consultancy with commercialisation, intellectual property management and risk management advice comprising preparation of a set of integrated intellectual property licensing contracts, documents and accompanying training guides.
Business development advice for an established multimedia development company with first level competencies in digital design.
Business establishment advice for an enterprise software start-up, specialising in customer relationship marketing software in Asia.
Ongoing commercialisation work for a company with a patented chemistry technology.
Advising mortgage finance client on information security, electronic discovery, electronic information management, and document retention and destruction policies and protocols

IP, Technology & E-business

Advising an e-commerce and web marketing venture regarding online ads for therapeutic goods subject to the Therapeutic Goods Act 1989 and Regulations and the Trade Practices Act 1974
Registration of a trade mark for a training services and management consultancy, accompanied by branding advice and formulation of an intellectual property policy.
Name infringement advice for an Australian winery entering the United States market and locally seeking to prevent use of its registered trade mark in business names registered by others.
Preparing intellectual capital protection advice and a licensing agreement for a strategic planning management consultancy and training company.
Advising an author regarding book publishing contracts - a copyright assignment contract and a ghost-writing contract.
Developing a software support contract for an Web services company.
Providing intellectual property and privacy law advice for an SMS marketing venture.
Privacy compliance advice and preparing a Privacy Policy Statement for an e-learning products distribution company.
Registration of a trade mark for a personnel agency associated with associated business re-structuring advice.
Web software licensing for a seven figure sum to Telstra for a Web software development company.
Drafting magazine and book fair purchase agreements for a childrens publishing and distribution company.
Advice for a book publisher considering negotiations with a Net aggregater's site.
Purchasing a dot com domain name for a US transnational book publisher.
Registration of trade marks for numerous clients.

Corporate & Business Dealings

To improve employee retention and management, developing a full set of employment contracts and other documents for a personnel agency for its recruitment, HR training and performance management processes.
Guiding a client company regarding legal management of a potential crisis involving its employment law obligations and the email exchange of pornographic material by an employee; advice included preparation of an electronic communications policy.
Purchase for a tourism publishing company of a tourism industry magazine and its associated photo library and Web media business.
Structuring a charitable enterprise which is the owner of an adult and youth training program and intellectual property in published works.
Acting for a seller in a sale of water taxi business.
Acting for a start-up professional services accounting software development business, establishing business structures to protect ownership of intellectual property and to minimise legal risk.
Sale of a Web hosting company for a seven figure sum plus shares and options to a US transnational.
Advising a major streaming video and website development company in its general business needs.
Business development and business dispute advice for a Web development and online branding company.

Finance & Securities

Designing the business model and providing valuation and royalty rate advice for a handbag design and licensing contract between an Australian company and a Japanese wholesaler for the licensed products to be manufactured in China and distributed in Japan.
Advising a website content owner on employment law and dissolution of a failed collaboration, valuation of its digital media content, and licensing intellectual property to a teleco for a new mobile phone service.
Preparing negotiation deal points, proposal and television program protection guide for television cooking program producers and assisting program financing and licensing of cable television rights.
Advising a food distribution company in regard to convertible notes.
Advising a charity donor regarding tax implications for his charitable contributions.
Business restructuring, involving partnership dissolution for a television producer with a very high rating TV program.
Fundraising advice for a new technology enterprise.
Advice for a forthcoming float of an established food wholesaler.
Analysis and advice of remuneration options for a new technology business with patented technology.

Real Property

Assisting an electronics manufacturing company to resolve an industrial lease dispute with its lessor
Acting for a food and homewares retailer with franchising plans for lease of retail premises.
Acting for several lessee companies advising regarding commercial leases in CBD Sydney.
Lease negotiation for improvement of leased commercial premises for a tourism industry accommodation company
Assignment of a retail lease for a CBD Sydney bar and restaurant operator.

Dispute Resolution

Preparing a defence and cross-claim for a commercial litigation matter as regards a disputed and failed photography business sale transaction.
Successfully defending a client company and its directors accused of breach of registered trade mark rights by use and registration of a .com.au domain name.
Acting for a defendant by assisting the client to itself resolve a dispute with its former solicitors as regards their unpaid accounts.
Acting for a plaintiff investor in commercial litigation regarding professional negligence by a stock market financial advise.
Advising a software development company in relation to allegations of source code infringement and preparing written advice and a response which quickly resolved the claim.
Advising a fashion goods manufacturer in regard to name infringement and the prevention of the use of its registered trade mark in business names registered by others.
Drafting letter of demand for a consultancy company relating to intellectual property infringement on a website successfully requiring the infringer to cease all use.
Successfully defending against an alleged breach of confidential information, claimed against a former executives of the plaintiff company.
Advising a telecommunications industry reseller as regards disputed bills based on incorrect call data records; obtaining expert technical data analysis which provided a basis for the client to itself resolve the dispute.
Defence, cross-claim and settlement advice in litigation acting for a website development company where its former client sought repayment of money paid during an aborted website and corporate identity development project.
Advising a New York publishing company regarding its rights and obligations under a sale of goods transactions by it with an Australian company facing insolvency.
Litigation regarding personal guarantees given for a trading company, acting for individual defendant guarantors.
Litigation victory acting for an inventor against action over his patent rights to a chemical invention.
Obtaining injunctions in the Supreme Court of NSW for a telecommunications reseller against a telco which sought to terminate service on the basis of alleged non-payment of accounts.
Defence of a web site developer in its debt recovery proceedings against a debtor client.