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Silver - Individuals: litigation
What Bird & Bird’s Australian contingent offers is a combination of global experience and local expertise – it regularly handles high-value, cross-border patent disputes that are also precedent setting. Standard essential patent litigation and arbitration remains the stronghold of this Sydney-based outfit. Of particular note is its in-house, cloud-hosted software solution, PATTERN, which is designed to solve patent portfolio valuation needs and provides accurate determinations of licensing royalties. Leading the IP team is Jane Owen, who effortlessly dispatches complex life sciences patent disputes and freedom-to-operate advisory. She litigates with poise in a patent infringement/revocation claim in the Federal Court on behalf of an international mineral and drilling company. Beside her is IP all-rounder Lynne Lewis, whose practice encompasses everything from IP-related consumer to regulatory law.