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At Alder IP, our top priority is maximise protection of the intellectual property of our clients and to protect their inventions and innovations.
We aim go further than just simply protecting their ideas of our clients. We aim to assist our client commercialise their intellectual property (IP) whether that includes trademarks, designs, patents, know how or trade secrets.
We strive to find the best fit for intellectual property and match it to your business goals and milestones.
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Fund Raising Agreements
Alder IP is skilled with assisting start-up companies to secure funds through capital raising events. Alder IP can work closely with your company to draft, negotiate and finalise funding agreements.
Licensing Agreements
In Sydney, Australia, your business can utilise the services of a Patent Attorney in Sydney or Commercial Law Firm to help and assist you license your patents and inventions.
Manufacturing & Supply Agreements
Manufacturing and supply agreements are critical to the success of most businesses. Supply agreements needs to generally include provisions that maintain your rights to confidentiality, trade secrets, knowhow, cost, delivery times, and minimum levels of quality.
Non Disclosure Agreements
Manufacturing and supply agreements are critical to the success of most businesses. Supply agreements needs to generally include provisions that maintain your rights to confidentiality, trade secrets, knowhow, cost, delivery times, and minimum levels of quality.
Shareholder Agreements
Shareholder agreements are essential for new companies. They set-out the rights and obligations of shareholders and allow for the codification of powers afforded to directors.
Assignment Agreements
An IP Assignment Agreement is a document sells or assigns an asset to a third party. There are generally similar to licensing agreements except that Assignor is selling their entire rights to the IP to another party. These documents are necessary to move the ownership of a patent or trade mark to another person.
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What is Design Protection?
A design is limited monopoly for look and appearance of a product or article. Design protection focuses on the aesthetic features of the product rather than the functional aspects.
Some designs are not registrable by law. These include designs for medals, layouts for integrated circuits, Australian currency and scandalous designs. A scandalous design is one which is shocking or offensive to the public or an individual’s sense of propriety or morality.
Care must be taken to ensure that the design has not been previously disclosed, used or sold publicly prior to the filing date. If you have already publicly disclosed your design (e.g. exhibited, sold copies, posted your design on a website), you may not be able to register it as it may not be considered to be new and distinctive.
What is a trade mark?
A trade mark is not just your company or domain name – it can grant you a limited monopoly on a word, slogan, phrase, sound, smell, shape or logo. A trade mark can even be a distinct aspect of your packaging.
When you register a trade mark, you gain the rights to use it for a period of ten years (with renewal periods). If someone else uses your trade mark, even unwittingly, it becomes an offence under the Trade Marks Act 1995. In some cases, even a trade mark without registration will hold enough inherent value to gain legal protection. However, it’s always a good idea to secure a trade mark to protect your product or service.
What is copyright?
Copyright is a free service in Australia that protects the expression of unique ideas as they are created and documented. This is most commonly used for works of art, with books, music, films and plenty of other mediums reliant on it for survival. In USA, copyright can be registered with the US Copyright Office and Alder IP can assist with this process.
If there was no way to register copyright in Australia or around the world, there would be no need to respect the work of other professionals, and commercial livelihoods and intellectual property ownership would be compromised. Copyright is generally aimed to protect the expression of an idea or concept and not the idea itself. Copyright lives in actual sample of the work and the scope of the protection is much narrower than trade mark, or patent protection.