Senator Kim Carr, Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research announced a new Chair to ACIP - Tuesday, December 23, 2008
On 22 December, Senator Kim Carr, Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research announced a new Chair and four new appointments to the Advisory Council on Intellectual Property (ACIP). The new council chair, Mr Leon Allen is a partner of the patent and trade mark firm Davies Collison Cave, and vice president of The Institute of Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys of Australia.

For the media release please go to our publications section
http://www.davies.com.au/publications.aspx

Swinburne Venture Cup 2008 - Davies Collison Cave prize - Monday, December 22, 2008
Kim McLeod, CEO of Industry 11 Technologies was the Swinburne Venture Cup recipient of the Davies Collison Cave prize for his Bollard Handling System concept. In early 2009, Industry11 will be releasing the worlds first Bollard Handling System. The product boasts capabilities of increased efficiency and safety by eliminating human labour in the tedious and dangerous process of deploying and collecting T-Top bollards. T-Top bollards are the most common delineating device used by Traffic Management companies around Australia. Davies Collison Cave congratulates Kim and his team in developing this innovative product.

(photo Kim McLeod and Sylvan Browne Davies Collison Cave)

19/11/08 WORLDleaders International IP Award for 2008 - Excellence in Trade Mark Practice/Litigation in Private Practice for the Asia Pacific Region - Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Marion Heathcote and Michael Wolnizer both partners of Davies Collison Cave attended the WORLDleaders International IP Awards 2008 ceremony in London on 19 November to receive the ASIA PACIFIC – Excellence in Trademark Practice/Litigation award on behalf of the firm. The awards dinner and presentation took place at Madame Tussauds.

Trademark World, Patent World and Copyright World are the world’s leading titles for intellectual property specialists and together they have been serving the IP community for over sixty years. A natural extension to this service is to acknowledge the excellence that exists on a daily basis in the fields of trademarks, patents and copyright, in the form of dedicated IP awards. The WORLDleaders International IP Awards 2008 recognised excellence in five categories across four world regions. The five categories were individually awarded for each separate region.

We are delighted to receive this award and we thank our clients and staff for the continued support.

22/5/08 DCC wins "IP Specialist Firm of the Year" Award for 2008 - Thursday, May 22, 2008
Davies Collison Cave is pleased to announce we have won the 2008 Australasian Law Awards, "IP Specialist Firm of the Year" category by Australasian Legal Business (ALB) Magazine. The award was presented to Davies Collison Cave at a Gala Dinner in Sydney on 22 May 2008.

ALB stated, Davies Collison Cave is "noted among clients and peers for its professionalism, in 2007 this regular finalist was again involved in a significant portion of major IP litigation to come before Australian courts".

This is the second year the firm has won this award, having previously won the award in 2006. The ALB Australasian Law Awards are considered Asia-Pacific's premium law awards.

9/4/08 DCC wins "Australian IP Firm of the Year" Award for 2008 - Wednesday, April 09, 2008
We are proud to announce that Davies Collison Cave has been awarded "Australian IP Firm of the Year" for 2008 by leading UK Journal Managing Intellectual Property (MIP). The award was presented at the Global Awards Ceremony in London on 9 April 2008.

The firm has now won this prestigious award in 2006, 2007 and 2008.

The award winners are chosen by MIP's research team, based on over six months of research, including extensive interviews with peers and clients.

MIP noted "Davies Collison Cave has maintained its reputation as the leading prosecution firm in Australia".

The awards recognize achievement in IP work over the past year, whether in prosecution, litigation, licensing or other work.

Abolition of Patent Search Results Requirements - Monday, October 22, 2007
The Australian Government released amendments on 17 October 2007 to effectively remove the requirement to lodge search results at the Australian Patent Office.

The amendments commence operation on 22 October 2007, and, for standard patents, require results that were due before that date to be filed only for applications that had been advertised as accepted before 22 July 2007. For all other applications for standard patents no results now need to be filed.

Similar amendments have been made in relation to the search results that would have been required if an innovation patent is examined for certification.

DCC is Australian IP Firm of the Year for 2007 - Thursday, April 05, 2007
We are pleased to announce that Davies Collison Cave has been awarded the "Australian IP Firm of the Year" for 2007 at the Managing Intellectual Property Global Awards at a ceremony in London. This is only the second year the awards have been held and the firm has won both times.

MIP researchers spent more than five months researching the awards, which followed MIP's 11th annual world IP survey, published earlier this year. During the research process, they contacted more than 2,000 people directly and carried out some 500 interviews by email, telephone and face-to-face.

The awards recognize achievement in IP work over the past year, whether in prosecution, litigation, licensing or other work.

DCC Sponsors Cool Company Awards - Tuesday, April 03, 2007
Davies Collison Cave is once again proud to sponsor the Cool Company Awards, run by Anthill Magazine. The inaugural Awards were launched in 2006 as a way to recognise Australian companies that are doing things differently - defying business conventions, launching exciting new products, implementing new ways to do business, undertaking 'rule-breaking' thought leadership, challenging the status quo.

For more information on how to enter please click here.

DCC Ranked Top Tier again in MIP's World IP Survey - Thursday, March 08, 2007
Managing Intellectual Property has released the results of their latest World IP Survey and we are pleased to have once again been ranked in the top tier of Australian firms for patent and trade mark advice. Davies Collison Cave has been voted Australia's premier patent and trade mark firm by our industry peers for 11 of the past 12 years. The rankings were compiled by MIP's team of researchers in London, New York and Hong Kong. They spoke to practitioners and in-house counsel, and many lawyers and attorneys provided information on their own practice, other firms and the overall trends in the IP market.