Intellectual Property rights protect “creative” or “creations” of people like playwrights, authors, singers, composers, musicians, painters, inventors etc. Intellectual Property rights law cover trademarks, patents, and copyrights. The purpose behind Intellectual Property Law is to make sure that the effort put in by the owner or holder of the copyright or patent to develop his or her invention or original piece of work is safeguarded and that he gets adequate economic value for his effort. No one else should be able to exploit that monetarily for his or her own benefit. Today Intellectual Property rights have become a big source of income for the patent holder and are top of the agenda in most international legal discussions.
While meeting a lawyer make sure you
- Have all the relevant documents with pertaining to the case
- Check with the lawyer about his or her own interest in the case. Also see whether the lawyer is able to brief you about the process, the estimated time, and the costs involved in the case
- Sometimes the law related to Intellectual property rights is different in different countries, and if it is a inter country case that you are fighting you would probably need a team of lawyers from the respective countries to advise you. This would require checking whether your law firm has branches outside Australia and in the country where you have to advocate your case.
Intellectual property law is very complicated and covers a whole gamut of issues. Before choosing your lawyer see whether
- Your lawyer has a fine grasp of the issues involved
- Make sure you tell your lawyer everything about the matter
- Find out whether the lawyer and his law firm would help you prepare all the relevant documentation pertaining to the case
- Lawyers also specialize in various areas of Intellectual property law e.g. patents and copyrights. If you want a patent done you will need to go to a lawyer who specializes in that
- See whether the lawyer is affiliated to associations that have to do with Intellectual property rights.
Some of the Intellectual Property Law firms in Australia are:
- Acacia Law
- Anderson Taylor and Associates
- Carter Newell
- Davies Collison Cave
- Fisher Adams Kelly
- Halford and Co
- IP Wealth
- Molins and Co