Client success stories

Real Results From Real IP Matters

The matters below give a sense of the challenges we help clients navigate and the thinking we bring to them. Every engagement is different but the approach stays the same: understand the business, understand what is at stake and build IP strategy around what actually matters. Where confidentiality applies, client names have not been included.

Consumer products & industrial design
DES
Design registration for consumer product
TM
Trade mark infringement and enforcement
TM
Trade mark registration and brand protection
Software, AI & digital technologies
PAT
Patent protection for innovative technology
IP
The emotional perception AI decision, and how it may shape the future of software patents in New Zealand

Following a landmark UK Supreme Court ruling that fundamentally reshaped AI and software patentability, navigating the…

IP
Aristocrat 2025: The new test for patentability of computer implemented inventions

A summary of Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Ltd v Commissioner of Patents [2025] FCAFC 131 Full…

INN
AI tools and patents: key risks and legal safeguards for Australian inventors and SMEs

Artificial intelligence tools are now part of the world at work. AI is being used by…

PAT
Can artificial intelligence be an inventor? The ongoing debate in Australia’s patent system

In today’s world of generative AI, machine learning and autonomous systems, one of the hottest legal…

DES
Global Design Reform: How the New Design Law Treaty Could Simplify Protection for Australian Designers

Designs are the silent ambassadors of innovation. Whether it is a piece of furniture, a handbag,…

IP
Defences to trade mark infringement
At IP Guardian, our team of highly skilled and experienced trade mark attorneys can help you…

Clients we work with

We work with businesses across technology and software, life sciences and biomedical, consumer brands and retail, media and entertainment, financial services and manufacturing and engineering.

What it is actually like to work with us

These are unedited comments from clients we have worked with, not selected quotes chosen to make a point. They cover what mattered to them, whether that was clear advice, a fast turnaround, or simply feeling like someone was on their side.

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