Webinar: Trademarks and Competition and Consumer Law Updates

Tim Creek
Tim’s practice involves contentious and non-contentious intellectual property law matters, with a focus on commercialisation of intellectual property rights.

Tim’s non-contentious practice includes the preparation and negotiation of commercial agreements for all intellectual property and related rights, including commercialisation, assignment, licensing and confidentiality agreements. Tim regularly advises clients on general commercial matters, consumer protection and trade practices matters as well as intellectual property rights and their enforcement. He has also worked as in-house counsel for a government agency where he advised on, amongst other things, licensing, distribution and finance arrangements, privacy, corporate law and governance issues.

Tim has represented clients in patent opposition proceedings before the Australian Patent Office, trade mark opposition proceedings before the Australian Trade Marks Office and patent, trade mark and design infringement and revocation proceedings, copyright infringement and breach of confidence matters in the Federal Court of Australia.

Tim has acted for clients in a wide range of industries, including medical device, manufacturing, transportation, pharmaceutical, telecommunications and consumer electronics industries, and has also acted for government and not-for-profit organisations, including several universities and research organisations.

Elizabeth Godfrey
Elizabeth (Liz) specialises in all aspects of trade mark protection including selecting, searching, applying for and prosecuting trade mark applications (local and international).

Liz started the firm working in Davies Collison Cave Law Pty Ltd in 2000, working in all areas of IP litigation for 10 years before moving to the Trade Marks Group.  As such Liz has a unique skill set which enables her to also run a strong contentious and enforcement practice, with a particular interest in domain names and online trade mark infringements (including via the Google AdWords program, social media and e-commerce websites). 

Liz has been published in a number of journals including Managing Intellectual Property, Intellectual Property Magazine, the Internet Law Bulletin, the Australian Intellectual Property Bulletin and the Intellectual Property Forum.  She also regularly contributes to DCC’s IP Updates.

Liz is regularly invited to present on developments in trade marks and consumer protection laws with a focus on the online environment.  Liz has lectured as part of Melbourne University’s Masters of Law Course.  For the last few years, Liz has been instrumental in developing and presenting the Trade Mark aspects of a seminar series to the Australian Corporate Lawyers Association.  Liz has also been engaged in running a series of seminars in the CBD and regional areas for the Small Business Festival Victoria to educate small to medium enterprises on the importance and value of trade mark protection.