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| About Smoorenburg Pini |
.smoorenburg pini. Patent & Trade Mark Attorneys has a presence on the ground in three countries, operating in Australia, New Zealand and Singapore. .smoorenburg pini. was formed in 2008 by the merger of Smoorenburg Patent & Trade Mark Attorneys and Pini Patent & Trade Mark Attorneys.
In Australia, our professionals include Richard Smoorenburg, Matt Pini and other IP professionals. All our professionals have substantial IP experience in patents, trade marks, designs and other aspects of intellectual property law, including IP litigation in Australia. We continue to grow in line with increasing client demand.
New Zealand was a natural extension for .smoorenburg pini. since each of our Australian Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys is also registered to practice before the Intellectual Property Office in New Zealand.
We have for some time been dealing with Singaporean portfolios for various clients. The Australian Patent Office is currently the prime examining authority for the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore and experience shows us that objections raised on a Singaporean patent application are most likely to have been encountered and dealt with on the corresponding Australian case.
Thus .smoorenburg pini. has expanded to provide an address for service in Singapore, in association with a number of IP professionals and extremely competent litigators in the Singaporean jurisdiction, headed by Mr Kim Tean Ng.
With .smoorenburg pini. operating in three countries, we are able to offer a single and uniform approach emanating from our Australian hub for handling your IP needs. Each of our professionals is highly skilled and technically expert in his/her chosen scientific field.
To ensure that we maintain our high standards and proper coordination in all matters, all communications should be directed to our Australian Office. From this hub the case file is prepared and coordinated, including the preparation of documentation, docketing and choosing the relevant professional.
We value our client relationships and aim to set the benchmark in Australia, New Zealand and Singapore.
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Richard is a Registered Patent & Trade Mark Attorney in both Australia and New Zealand. He holds a Bachelor of Electronic Engineering and has worked for a number of years as an electronic engineer before entering the IP field.
Richard was for many years a Senior Partner in one of the largest Australian Patent & Trade Mark Attorney firms. Now well established in his own firm, he has a wide variety of expertise based on his 22 years in the IP profession, specialising in electrical, electronics, telecommunications, software, internet, database, business methods and other information technology fields, but also has experience in a variety of different fields such as the Mining, Automotive, Resources, Packaging and Identification Industries.
His professional work is client, rather than discipline specific. He enjoys being involved in many areas of each client’s business through product conception, development, marketing and further improvement. His work involves providing market-focused |
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monopolies, in the form of patents, trade marks and designs, on a worldwide basis together with general advice gained from his learned experiences of other companies’ successes and failures.
Richard is experienced in working with local and overseas-based clients, both small and large, as well as global companies, in creating and gaining registration for many forms of IP protection. With offices in Australia, New Zealand and Singapore, and operating in many other overseas countries, Richard is able to bring his extensive experience to the benefit of his clients today.
He is a Fellow of the Institute of Patent & Trade Mark Attorneys of Australia, a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, FICPI, AIPPI, ACBC (Australia China Business Council), AMCHAM (American Chamber of Commerce), and the IP Society of Australia and New Zealand. He participates in AIPLA, AIPPI and WCIT (World Congress on Information Technology) and in Australia has interests in the Australian Computer Society, The Asia Society AustralAsia Centre, The Australian Institute of Export and the Victorian Society for Computers and the Law.
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Matt Pini is a registered Australian and New Zealand Patent and Trade Marks Attorney with over eight years experience in the patent profession. Matt holds a Bachelor of Applied Science (Applied Physics) from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, a Graduate Diploma of Engineering and a Graduate Certificate of Engineering both in Information & Communications Technology from the Institution of Engineers Australia and Deakin University, respectively.
Matt worked a period of four years in a major Australian Patent & Trade Mark Attorney firm based in Melbourne upon his entry to the patent profession in Australia. Prior to that, Matt was a Patent Examiner at the Australian Patent Office in Canberra from 1990 to 1999 gaining extensive experience examining patents in digital computing hardware and software, telecommunications, electronic instrumentation (including medical instruments) as well as, sports, games, amusements, advertising, labelling and display. Matt gained a working knowledge of procedural matters put before the Patent Office including oppositions, extensions of time (in which Matt authored a prominent Patent Office Decision) and in some instances appeals to the Australian Federal Court. |
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Matt also has practical industrial experience, including a position held with the corporate IP team of Vision Systems Limited (now Leica BioSystems Melbourne Pty Ltd and Invetech Pty Ltd). In his in-house role, Matt was responsible for identifying, protecting and maintaining the valuable IP assets of the company, including patentable inventions, trade marks, designs and commercial know-how, which drive product sales in the company’s major world markets. These IP assets covered technology such as automated instruments and biochemical reagents for detection of cancer and infectious diseases in pathology laboratories; very early warning fire protection systems and sophisticated video-based surveillance systems; and the design and development of biomedical instruments.
Matt now acts for clients with activities in industries such as semiconductors, medical instruments, gaming industries, particle detection, telecommunications, security and surveillance, transport, sports and education. Matt also has substantial experience and knowledge of the law of business method patents in Australia. Matt is a fellow of the Institute of Patent & Trade Mark Attorneys of Australia, and a member of the IP Society of Australia and New Zealand and also the Australia China Business Council (ACBC). Matt participates in AIPLA, FICPI and AIPPI.
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Carolyn is a Registered Patent & Trade Mark Attorney in both Australia and New Zealand and is admitted to practice as a lawyer by the Supreme Court of Victoria. She holds a Bachelor of Science (Hons), a PhD and Graduate Diploma In IP Law from the University of Melbourne, and a Diploma in Law from the NSW Legal Practitioners’ Admission Board. She is currently completing a Masters in Biotechnology & Business from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.
Carolyn’s doctoral thesis related to the field of inorganic chemistry, specifically synthetic and spectroscopic methods, including infrared spectroscopy, NMR spectroscopy and x-ray crystallography to characterise inorganic structures. Following a post-doctoral position in BHP’s Melbourne Research Laboratories working on a coal-to-oil conversion project, she moved to ICI Australia’s Research Group and worked in areas as diverse as zirconia fluoride glass manufacture for communications cables and explosives formulation. Carolyn transferred to the intellectual property section of ICI Australia’s Corporate Advisory Group whilst studying to qualify as a patent and trade mark attorney. |
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In her in-house position Carolyn was responsible for providing IP services to ICI Australia’s industrial chemicals, explosives and paint related business groups with particular emphasis on IP protection for new products, from their creation through to commercial release. This included defence of IP assets through oppositions and litigation.
In recent years she has worked in private patent attorney practice and a major Australian law firm providing IP registration services to a wide range of industries and assisting with IP licensing and litigation matters, principally in the pharmaceutical industry.
Carolyn is a fellow of the Institute of Patent & Trade Mark Attorneys of Australia, a member of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute and a chartered chemist. Carolyn has published a number of scientific papers and IP related articles. She is also the co-author of the patent text “Practical Guide to Australian Patent Law” (C.O’Sullivan & C.Rolls, Thompson/Law Book Co.)
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New Zealand Based Attorneys
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Singapore Based Attorneys
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