Wrays Lawyers Pty Ltd is an incorporated entity operating in accordance with the Western Australian Legal Profession Act and is affiliated with Wrays Patent and Trade Marks Attorneys.
Our personnel consist of lawyers, trade marks attorneys, and IP consultants. We assist our clients with the registration of trade marks and ancillary trade mark services, and provide advice on copyright, registered designs, confidential information, and patent-related issues.
We have experience in both contentious matters, including litigation in the Federal and Supreme Courts, as well as non-contentious transactions involving all aspects of technology and intellectual property generally. Wrays Lawyers can provide advice on:
- Intellectual property litigation;
- Intellectual property licensing and assignment;
- Trade secrets and confidential information;
- Privacy;
- Labelling (including labelling issues under the Australian Wine and Brandy Corporation Act, the Trade Practices Act, the Customs Regulations, and the Therapeutic Goods Act) and marketing, including misleading and deceptive conduct in advertising and comparative advertising;
- Franchising;
- E-commerce, including advice on problems arising from deep-linking, meta-tagging and phishing;
- Information technology transactions, including license agreements, development agreements, maintenance agreements and other types of IT contracts;
- Pharmaceutical regulatory approvals, including dealing with the Therapeutic Goods Administration and the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator;
- Intellectual property due diligence in corporate transactions, principally in assisting other law firms in the broader aspects of corporate work;
- Parallel importation, customs and anti-counterfeiting operations;
- entertainment contracts (including talent agreements and chain of title clearance) for the music industry and film and broadcasting industry.
We pride ourselves on our contribution to the local community by being engaged in pro bono work for a variety of non-for-profit charities and similar organisations.