Overview
Mark is a Principal with three decades of experience in technology and intellectual property law. While he is usually litigating technology and IP disputes, his commercial and strategic advice on IT contracting, data protection, intellectual property, licensing and commercialisation provides clients with clarity and direction, often in complex areas of both law and technology.
Clients seek Mark’s expertise in a range of areas, including:
- Patent, trade mark, copyright and trade secret litigation matters, for local and multinational clients, often advising on cross-border strategic issues. This includes representing a client in a long running, complex, multi-jurisdictional copyright and misuse of information dispute relating to communications. He has also represented clients in a number of the leading Australian Federal Court cases on the patentability of computer implemented inventions.
- Anti-counterfeiting programmes which are designed to resolve infringement issues efficiently and effectively. Enforcement of rights often draws on Mark’s experience in online enforcement, dealing with intermediaries, domain names, trade marks, copyright and misleading and deceptive conduct.
- Strategies to manage, commercialise and protect data assets and confidential information: Mark and his team work with clients on IT procurement contracts with a particular depth of focus on models for commercialisation of data assets. Mark has a deep understanding of the best compliance models and the flow through effects on commercial agreements for the use and sharing of data assets.
- Cloud computing and data protection: Mark’s acknowledged expertise in this area is highly sought after by clients and has led to Mark being invited to speak at multiple industry events in Australia and across Asia Pacific. Mark was the only Australian representative on INTA’s inaugural Data Protection Committee – an international committee designed to steer brand owners through issues of data protection and to protect brand value and the value of data assets.
- Growth strategies following registration for managing, licensing and enforcing IP rights. A particular focus is commercial work with clients on joint development of IP rights, research and development agreements, licence and assignment agreements and other models for exploitation of IP rights.
Mark is a member of the Law Society of New South Wales, INTA, and the Intellectual Property Society of Australia and New Zealand.
