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Greg is a patent specialist based in our Auckland Office and services a number of clients in Christchurch.

Greg's clients include Schneider Electric, Whisper Tech, Tait Electronics, General Cable, Navico, Navman Wireless, Rakon, Industrial Research Limited, Sealed Air, Hamilton Jet, Scion, Kohler, and the Universities of Canterbury and Auckland, as well as many other manufacturers and technology start-ups.

Greg provides:

• strategic intellectual property advice in relation to technology and product design;
• patentability assessments and advice on strategy;
• advice on the use of confidentiality and licensing for the protection of new technology;
• freedom to commercialise assessments internationally;
• patent and design searching in New Zealand and internationally;
• design registration and copyright;
• strategic advice in relation to intellectual property enforcement and defence;
• advice on intellectual property ownership issues and structures;
• intellectual property preparation of technology start-ups for investment;
• intellectual property due diligence for investors and in relation to proposed acquisitions;
• IP audits and assists companies to develop and implement a corporate IP strategy.

Greg works in:

• electrical engineering, electronics and communications generally including: power engineering, communications, control systems, switch gear, medical imaging, scanning technologies, sound systems, smart card technology;
• physics including optics, optometry, acoustics, gas sensing, hazard detection, superconductivity, nanotechnology;
• manufacturing and mechanical engineering including general manufactured products, packaging and product handling equipment, medical devices, trampolines, waterjet drive systems, bakery machinery, mechanical connectors, building systems, seismic isolation technology, assistive devices for the disabled and composite materials.

Greg is a regular speaker on IP and IP management and strategy.  He is a past President of the New Zealand Institute of Patent Attorneys Inc.