John Fairbairn
Minter EllisonMinter Ellison has a successful track record in all aspects of intellectual property, including commercialisation transactions, confidential information, and domain names. The practice also handles copyright, patent and trade mark matters across the education, hi-tech, life sciences and pharmaceuticals sectors. With over three decades of experience, Robert Cooper leads the team from Melbourne and specialises in patent disputes, while John Fairbairn is particularly focused on the digital, media and telecoms sectors. Simone Mitchell is skilled in patent infringement, oppositions, and revocation cases. All of the individuals are located in Sydney, unless stated otherwise.
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Testimonials
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- ‘A great depth of talent and expertise across all categories of IP and technologies. They can adjust resources dynamically and efficiently.’
- ‘Minter Ellison's IP practice is comprehensive, straightforward and dependable.’
- ‘Minters provide a high level of IP expertise combined with more general commercial expertise and understanding of practicalities, this enables them to provide a holistic and practical approach to advice.’
- ‘The Minters team has a breadth and depth of experience which means they can provide a seamless end to end solution.’
- ‘The intellectual property team have strong expertise in copyright in the media and entertainment industries.’
- ‘Very experienced IP litigators.’
- ‘John Fairbairn has an intelligent and considered approach to litigation. He is hands on; highly knowledgeable and experienced, with a particular understanding of the media and entertainment industries.’
- ‘John Fairbairn is an expert adviser on copyright as well as trade mark matters and has a deep knowledge of the media and entertainment industry.’
Key clients
- BMS
- Cap-XX
- Copyright Agency
- Endeavour Group
- ESCO Corporation
- Foxtel
- Giorgio Armani
- PPG Industries
- Stan Entertainment
- Thales Australia
- Woolworths
Lawyers
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Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Robert Cooper