Specialised in Practice Areas:

Intellectual Property and Trade Practices Litigation
Confidential information and contractual disputes
Patents
Trademarks
Pharmaceuticals
Copyright Law

Additional Experience:

Kate is a senior Lawyer with over 10 years experience at two leading national law firms. She specialises in intellectual property and has acted on a number of significant trade mark and patent infringement matters as well as high profile trade practices litigation. Kate also has extensive experience in relation to litigation arising from breaches of confidential information and contract disputes, including mediations and expert determinations. She has also successfully obtained suppression orders, world wide freezing orders and numerous interlocutory injunctions.

Educational Background:

Bachelor of Arts and Law (Honours) – Monash University (1995)
Winner of the Arthur Brown Memorial Prize for Honours thesis

Professional Affiliations:

Intellectual Property Society of Australia and New Zealand
Victorian Women Lawyers

Description:

Kate has extensive experience in all aspects of intellectual property law and has acted in court proceedings involving patent (infringement and revocation), trade mark, misleading and deceptive conduct, passing off, copyright and design. She has advised clients across a wide variety of industries including pharmaceutical, electrical, energy, financial services, automotive and consumer goods. Kate has also had recent experience advising Government and the private sector on emissions trading schemes and alternate energy technologies.
Early in her career Kate acted in the first shape trade mark case to be litigated in Australia as well as the
patent case that clarified the patentability of medical treatments. She has particular experience in large multi
jurisdictional litigation, both at trial and on appeal.
She has also been involved in due diligences where they involve complex competition and intellectual
property issues.
Kate has acted in relation to a number of high profile regulatory matters including the ACCC’s prosecution of
VISY, the Australian Tax Office’s Wickenby investigation and various prosecutions of directors arising from
breaches of the Corporations Law.

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