Queensland

Trade Mark Update

Ed and Ben will discuss recent cases in the area of trade marks law and provide their views on various decisions.

Ed Heerey QC, Barrister, Sydney and Melbourne Bar
Ed has been a long-time supporter of IPSANZ and is a perennial favourite of our members for his succinct, informative and entertaining trade mark updates.

Ben Gardiner, Barrister, Queensland Bar
Ben Gardiner is based in Brisbane and appears regularly in the Federal Court and IP Australia in intellectual property matters.

IPSANZ is pleased to invite you and your colleagues to attend the Annual Judges’ Dinner, to be held on Thursday, 29 October 2020.

This year we are delighted to have the Honourable Justice Roger Derrington of the Federal Court of Australia speak and hope that you are available to attend.

The evening will commence at 6pm at Alchemy Restaurant, and includes a 3 course formal sit down dinner and drinks for the evening.

The Annual Judges’ Dinner is one of the highlights of our calendar of events each year.

Given there have been very few opportunities to meet in person this year, it will be particularly special for judges, lawyers, barristers, patent and trade mark attorneys and academics to gather and converse in a relaxed, social setting.

The Honourable Justice Roger Derrington

IPSANZ is delighted to present The Right Honourable Lord Justice Colin Birss, in conversation with Justice Stephen Burley, Federal Court of Australia, in a session chaired by Angus Lang SC.

Lord Justice Birss, who has recently been appointed to the UK Court of Appeal, will be in conversation with Justice Burley on a range of topics including licences relating to standard-essential patents granted on fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory (FRAND) terms (following from his groundbreaking 2017 judgement in Unwired Planet v Huawei, which was upheld by the UK Court of Appeal and the UK Supreme Court in August this year) and the UK courts’ response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

This session will be chaired by Angus Lang, recently appointed as senior counsel.

The Right Honourable Lord Justice Colin Birss, UK Court of Appeal
Lord Justice Birss is a judge of the United Kingdom’s Court of Appeal. He was called to the English Bar in 1990 and practiced in intellectual property law. He was appointed Standing Counsel for the Comptroller 2003-2008 and took silk in 2008. In 2010 Lord Justice Birss was appointed judge of the Patents County Court (now Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (IPEC). In 2013 he was appointed to the High Court, Chancery Division, where he was the Judge in Charge of the Patents Court. He is an independent judicial member of the EPO Boards of Appeal Committee and serves on the Advisory Board of Judges for the WIPO Judicial Institute. He is also General Editor of Terrell on the Law of Patents, and a Council member of the UK Foundation for Science and Technology. In July 2020, Lord Justice Birss was appointed to the UK Court of Appeal. His appointment takes effect in Autumn 2020.

The Honourable Justice Stephen Burley, Federal Court of Australia, Sydney
His Honour was admitted as a legal practitioner in 1987 and subsequently awarded a Master of Laws from the London School of Economics and Political Science, in the United Kingdom. He was awarded an Associate in Music, Australia (AMusA) by the Australian Music Examinations Board in 1982. Justice Burley practised at the Bar from 5 Wentworth Chambers, Sydney, from 1993 until 2016. He was appointed Senior Counsel in 2007.
In 2016, Justice Burley was appointed to the Federal Court of Australia.