Thomson Geer

IP, Privacy, Regulatory, Competition & Consumer law

Partner

Bronwyn Furse is a commercial lawyer with specialist expertise in the areas of intellectual property, privacy, regulatory and competition and consumer law.

Her practice traverses public and private industry sectors including automotive, higher education, health, manufacturing, medical devices, energy and resources, government, financial services and ecommerce, from start ups through to multinational groups.

Bronwyn’s intellectual property practice includes advising on all matters of ownership, protection, commercialisation, licensing and enforcement of intellectual property rights. She routinely prepares and negotiates agreements for domestic and cross-jurisdictional licensing arrangements, commercialisation of intellectual property and technology procurement.

Bronwyn has extensive franchising experience.  She advises some of Australia’s most well known, and longest running franchise networks.  Her practice includes assisting with the day to day management of franchise networks, along with related intellectual property, privacy and competition and consumer law issues.  She also routinely assists in the expansion of networks into offshore jurisdictions and establishment of new franchise networks.

Bronwyn is well known for her specialist expertise in privacy law and data protection and commercialisation.  She has a particular interest and depth of expertise in privacy issues arising from data sharing and transfer, analytics and commercialisation, as well as behavioural advertising and electronic marketing.

Australia and New Zealand Education Law Association (ANZELA) Licensing Executives Society of Australia and New Zealand (LESANZ) International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) National Legal Committee Member, Franchise Council of Australia (FCA) Intellectual Property Society of Australia and New Zealand (IPSANZ)

Bachelor of Laws Bachelor of Health Science