Team Profile

Expertise

Michelle’s practice involves working with and assisting local and multinational clients of all sizes and from a wide range of industries to protect their valuable IP rights. Michelle has extensive experience assisting clients in Australia and overseas with conducting clearance searches, filing and prosecuting trade mark applications, maintaining trade mark watches, opposition and removal proceedings, as well as trade mark enforcement and dispute resolution.

Her wealth of experience has provided her with a sound understanding of filing strategies and the various prosecution procedures involved. Michelle’s broad experience working with a diverse group of businesses coupled with her research skills and strategic thinking, make her an integral member of the trade mark team managing large trade mark portfolios for multinational corporations.

Practice Areas

  • Trade mark clearance searches
  • Filing and prosecution of trade mark applications in Australia and overseas
  • Building trade mark assets
  • Filing International applications via the Madrid Protocol
  • Filing strategies
  • Prosecution procedures
  • Trade mark watches
  • Trade mark portfolio management
  • Trade mark and brand related disputes

Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Commerce, Griffith University, 2006
  • An Australian Trade Marks attorney registered to practice in both Australia and New Zealand 2016

Memberships

  • The Institute of Patent And Trade Mark Attorneys of Australia (IPTA)

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