Copyright, trade mark, licensing, dispute resolution — the full commercial IP stack, delivered by multidisciplinary technologists and lawyers who work with future-industry companies every day. We know the clauses that matter and the ones that don't.
Document ownership clearly from the start. Reduce friction with collaborators and investors. Choose a licensing model your product can actually enforce. With IP sorted early, funding and partnership conversations get faster, not slower.
Commercialise 01 / 03
Subscriptions, software copyright, employee IP assignments, open-source compliance, trade mark strategy. Licensing built as part of your business architecture.
Build the foundations
Disputes 02 / 03
Enforcement 03 / 03
When IP rights are fragmented or unclear, every commercialisation step slows down. Foundational copyright, trade mark and licensing arrangements in place early, so you can move quickly when the commercial moment arrives.
The subscription model has become one of the most flexible ways to commercialise IP — particularly for digital products, software platforms, data services and ongoing content delivery.
We structure agreements that reflect how your IP is actually accessed and used: tiered access, user-based limits, usage-based pricing, embedded compliance mechanisms that tie commercial terms to technical controls. Renewal, suspension, IP ownership and content-update terms calibrated so you keep control while customers get predictable value.
Source code and digital works are protected by copyright automatically on creation — but enforcement and commercialisation need clear attribution and strong evidence. We document authorship, capture rights at the point of creation, and structure licence terms to suit how your product is used.
Without the right terms in place, you'll hit problems commercialising IP created by staff, contractors or founders. We draft clear rights assignments — clarifying ownership, and making future fundraising, exits and licensing negotiations significantly simpler.
Open source accelerates development and lowers cost — but introduces obligations that many teams don't fully understand. We help select appropriate licences, manage obligations at scale (re-use limits, copyleft, attribution), and integrate open-source checks into your build process to catch issues before ship.
Brand identity in the digital age is more than a logo. Trade mark registration and protection for product names, app names, taglines. If competing or contested registrations are on the horizon, we help clarify the process so you can focus on growing the brand rather than defending it.
Assess the nature of the infringement, weigh commercial and reputational risk, and deploy the right mix of informal and legal tools. Acting early, with a clear view of your rights, usually produces the best outcome at the lowest cost.
Reproduction of content, imagery, creative works or documentation without authorisation — whether by competitors, former contractors or platform intermediaries acting outside licence scope.
Lookalike packaging, mimicked domains, social impersonators, overseas operators trading on your goodwill. Swift action, commercially proportionate.
Domain squatters, typo domains, impersonator accounts, illegitimate online stores. Technically grounded responses mixing legal rights with direct platform engagement.
Unauthorised use, under-reported royalties, sub-licensing breaches, scope arguments. Often turns on how terms are interpreted, not just what's written down.
Software, datasets, digital workflows, proprietary models — copied or reused by ex-employees, white-label partners or customers acting outside scope. Blended legal and technical response.
Unauthorised disclosure or exploitation of trade secrets, confidential datasets, proprietary processes or business intelligence. Often triggered by departing employees or the collapse of commercial partnerships.
Most IP enforcement begins with a letter, not proceedings. The letter has to frame the rights, particularise the conduct, and set a deadline the recipient can meet. Done well, it ends the matter; done badly, it puts people in expensive situations that could have been avoided.
We act for our client, the registered owner of the marks and copyright works identified in the schedule. Our client has identified unauthorised use of its trade marks and lookalike packaging in goods now offered for sale at [URL].
The conduct is not isolated. It includes a domain name that mimics our client's, social accounts trading on its goodwill, and material reproduced from product documentation without licence. Our client's rights are protected under Trade Marks Act 1995 (Cth) and Copyright Act 1968 (Cth).
We require written undertakings within seven days that you will cease the conduct, transfer the offending domain, and account for revenue to date. Our client reserves all rights, including the right to rely on this letter on the question of costs.
Identify the rights owner and the registered marks before particularising the conduct. The recipient needs to know who they're dealing with and what's been infringed.
Name the conduct (lookalike packaging, mimicked domain, copied documentation) so the recipient cannot pretend not to know what is alleged.
Be clear about the claimed rights, IP rights are statutory, for instance under the Trade Marks Act 1995 (Cth) and Copyright Act 1968 (Cth) and clear infringement has to fit the statutory frame.
Set reasonable undertakings the recipient can actually sign (not outrageous ultimatums), with a deadline short enough to compel response but long enough to be defensible if the matter goes further.
Leave us a short message about the IP matter or licensing structure and we'll come back with our view of the next steps. Wait until our initial conference to share privileged details; an overview here is enough.
Tell us about the matter and we'll come back fast with a view on scope and approach.
Statement of Work delivered digitally with clear estimates. Don't sign anything until you've seen ours.
A no-obligation videoconference to agree direction. Drop your own conferencing link in the form if you prefer.
