IP 101: Avoiding the pitfalls of IP protection

How are you protecting your IP? As an entrepreneur, your intellectual property is one of the most valuable assets that you own so it is important that you get your IP protection strategy right from the get go.

Not sure how? Join Mary and Nick, intellectual property experts, for a crash course in IP. Mary Turonek and Nick Stamatiou are both Senior Associates at FB Rice, Australia’s leading independent intellectual property firm.

Together, they will be facilitating a workshop designed to teach you the lay of the intellectual property land, why patents, trade marks, and designs matter to your business, and how to avoid pitfalls when protecting your IP. This interactive workshop will be a great opportunity for current and future entrepreneurs.

About FB Rice:

FB Rice are experts in the protection of intellectual property and we work with our clients to create strategies with high commercial impact. Our clients trust us to examine their organisation’s strategy and vision, as well as to help realise it. As Australia’s largest independent intellectual property firm, IP is our sole focus, which ensures the best possible development and protection for our clients' intellectual property.

Our advice encompasses the legal, technical and strategic aspects of intellectual property prosecution, and is focused on biotechnology, chemistry, engineering, medical technology, oil & gas, pharmaceuticals, software & information technology and trade marks.

We work with a broad range of clients, who, despite their varied specialties have one thing in common: the need for excellent advice for managing their intellectual property. At every point of the process of protecting our clients' intellectual property, we seek to thoroughly understand their commercial environments and work with them to ensure that we protect the value of their intangible assets.