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Griffith Hack taps new practice leader with trademark expertise
The Australian firm has hired a former Mallesons special counsel to lead its trademarks team as it looks to expand its brand protection and commercialisation offering.

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Patent and trademark litigator brings sharp courtroom skills and engineering know-how to the firm’s IP practice, enhancing “a powerhouse platform” says the firm.
The firm has strengthened its intellectual property, capital markets, corporate, transactional and litigation capabilities with the addition of the group, which will be based across California and Texas.
The firm’s hire brings nearly 25 years of experience—including in high-stakes disputes involving sophisticated technologies—to its San Francisco office, adding firepower to its patent practice.
With technical specialisms including nucleic acid technologies, biological therapeutics and vaccines, and diagnostics and biological assays, the new hire adds a life sciences patent specialism to the firm’s growing IP practice.
A former USPTO director and a trial and appellate lawyer join in Dallas, as Texas becomes a hub for tech, life sciences, energy, and advanced manufacturing.
Firm marks next chapter in ‘soft IP’ practice, as two new hires bring ‘depth’ and ‘longstanding relationships’ to its offering in Spain’s capital.
One of the country's most prominent patent judges has joined A&O Shearman after nearly eight years on the federal bench.
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