Medical technology

The cross-disciplinary nature of medical technology inventions requires a highly experienced multidisciplinary IP team to provide protection and enforcement.

Medtech is a vital and rapidly evolving sector, delivering diverse technologies with a real impact on millions of lives.

Investment funds are increasingly available in the industry, supporting promising innovations, and governments across the globe are encouraging business and individual uptake through a wide range of incentives.

However, Medtech is also an area of fierce competition, driven by complex and multidisciplinary technology, which demands in-depth technical expertise. In this landscape, a well-formulated IP strategy and robust protection from those who understand the nuances of the various technologies are essential for success.

How Griffith Hack can help you

We have considerable expertise in protecting and defending a broad range of medical devices including but not limited to:

  • Implants and implantable devices
  • Diagnostic and monitoring systems
  • Hospital equipment
  • Surgical instruments and aids
  • Drug delivery
  • Medical consumables, including haematology and body fluid collection technologies and analysers
  • Imaging apparatus
  • Interventional cardiology including angioplasty, stents and grafts, intravascular drug delivery, cardiac valve repair, cardiac mapping
  • Prosthetics
  • Respiratory and sleep technologies
  • Personal protective equipment (PPE)
  • Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning assisted medical devices and healthcare technologies
  • eHealth, including patient and hospital database systems
  • Dental equipment
  • Ophthalmology equipment

Key contacts

Meet the team
Practice Group Leader, Engineering & ICT

Georgina Higinbotham

Georgina is practice group leader of our Engineering and ICT team.

Karen Sinclair
Practice Group Leader, Chemistry & Life Sciences

Karen Sinclair

Karen is a patent and trade marks attorney based in Melbourne.

Principal

Dr Chris Vindurampulle

Chris is a patent and trade marks attorney based in Melbourne.

Principal

David Hughes

David Hughes is a patent attorney based in Sydney.

James Robert Cram
Principal

Dr James-Robert Cram

James is a patent and trade marks attorney based in Melbourne.

Principal

Jennifer Wyndham-Wheeler

Jennifer is a patent attorney based in Sydney.

Dr Jing Fung Tan
Principal

Dr Jing Fung Tan

Jing is a patent and trade marks attorney based in Melbourne.

Jessica Lee
Principal

Jessica Lee

Jessica is a patent and trade marks attorney based in Sydney.

Kerry Dick
Principal

Kerry Dick

Kerry is a patent and trade marks attorney based in Melbourne.

Principal

Nicola Scheepers

Nicola is a trade marks lawyer based in Sydney.

Robyn Heard Griffith Hack
Principal

Robyn Heard

Robyn is a patent and trade marks attorney based in Perth.

Ray Tettman
Principal

Ray Tettman

Ray is a patent and trade marks attorney based in Melbourne.

Anthony Selleck Griffith Hack
Special Counsel

Anthony Selleck

Anthony is a patent attorney based in Melbourne.

Associate

David Braund

David is a patent attorney based in Brisbane.

Associate

Sanjan Srivelan

Sanjan is a patent attorney based in Melbourne.

Patent Attorney

Chloe Franken

Chloe is a trainee patent attorney based in Melbourne.