Stephens Lawyers & Consultants offer expert legal advice to businesses
Lawyers at Stephens Lawyers & Consultants also provide commercial advice for a range of intellectual property issues, like development, implementation and protection, copy rights, patents, trade marks, and confidential details. Lawyers also provide commercial and practical advice to technology-based industries on legal alteration that would impact the business.
Stephens Lawyers & Consultants assist clients in various factors like preparing agreement documents and negotiating for commercial utilisation of the intellectual property, franchising, license, agency distribution agreements, patent issues, merchandising, marketing agreements and confidential trade agreements. Lawyers at the legal franchisor business also audit the programmes for management and protection of the intellectual property.
Stephens Lawyers & Consultants has been involved in leading cases in the intellectual property field. Stephens Lawyers & Consultants represented Victoria University of Technology in Supreme Court involving the patent application and subsequent software development. In another case, the firm represented Autodesk v. Dyason in High Court, which was the first case in Australia where the High Court had to consider whether amendments to the copyright act afforded protection to computer programmes as literary works.
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