Davies Collison Cave

Davies Collison Cave is one of Australia's largest intellectual property (IP) firms.

We provide patent, trade mark, design & copyright, commercialisation, privacy and data protection and services in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and the ASEAN region. We are engaging in our dealings with our clients and are committed to understanding your IP in the context of your business. We are focused on providing excellent service and leadership within the IP profession.

QANTM Intellectual Property Limited (ASX:QIP) is the owner of leading intellectual property (IP) businesses operating in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and Malaysia under four key brands ? Davies Collison Cave Pty Ltd (DCC), FPA Patent Attorneys Pty Ltd (FPA), Cotters Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys (Cotters), Advanz Fidelis IP Sdn Bhd (ADVANZ), as well as an IP consultancy joint venture, ipervescence Pty Ltd. Further information about QANTM Intellectual Property can be found here.
What we do

Protecting and enforcing IP is what we've been doing for more than a century. When you engage us, you join forces with the largest patent and trade mark attorney firm in Australia.

You can depend on our principals, attorneys, and lawyers, because they're among the most academically qualified and experienced IP specialists in the country. They come from a broad range of science and technology backgrounds and have the technical and legal skills to understand your innovation and protect your interests.

No matter what your issue, no matter where you are located, we have the expertise, scope, and experience to secure and safeguard your IP in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, and throughout the ASEAN region.
Our culture

The culture at Davies Collison Cave is characterised by our steadfast commitment to excellence. We recruit only the very brightest professionals, support them with highly trained administrative staff, and utilise sophisticated technology and management systems.

We invest in our people with ongoing mentoring, training and development and we strive to provide leadership within the IP profession through the roles of our people in academic education and through positions with key non-government organisations. Our clients are the direct beneficiaries of our high performing, highly motivated and talented workforce of key opinion leaders in the profession.

We will build context into our work by engaging with you to learn about your broad strategic and commercial objectives. This ensures our advice to you is not only legally and technically sound, but also commercially-focused and timely while supporting your strategic direction.

Our service delivery support systems document and control key processes within each jurisdiction. And our data is regularly internally audited to ensure accuracy and consistency with public records.

Principal control is a prominent feature of our quality management process. All work is supervised by a principal who works extremely closely with his or her team. This ensures sign-off is much more than a signature. It's a Davies Collison Cave principal's guarantee of the quality of the work we perform for you.

Davies Collison Cave is proud to be a member of the Australian Legal Sector Alliance (AusLSA), which promotes sustainability and diversity in the legal services sector in Australia.
Our Services

We specialise in strategic analysis, protection, enforcement, commercialisation and licensing of in all aspects of intellectual property, including:

Patents
Designs
Trade marks
Trade secrets
Domain names
Copyright
Commercialisation
Plant variety rights
Licensing
Litigation, Mediation & Dispute Resolution
Privacy and Data Protection
Technology, Media and Telecommunications
Corporate and Commercial
Property
Taxation
Business Succession Planning

Our law group practices exclusively in IP law and directly related areas. Our lawyers are recognised for their expertise in negotiating commercial agreements, licensing and litigation relating to patents, trademarks, copyright, designs, domain names, privacy and data protection, technology, media and telecommunications.

To help you find the right person with the right experience and technical background you can use our people search and review our industry pages or services pages.

Davies Collison Cave has been in Melbourne since the Patent Office was established there in 1904. Today more than 60 specialist IP professionals are located in our Melbourne office, comprising patent attorneys, trade mark attorneys and intellectual property (IP) lawyers. Our breadth of industry expertise covers all technologies and related legal fields. We have experienced IP professionals who assist and advise businesses of all sizes on the best way to protect and enforce their intellectual property and how to extract value from this key business asset. It's important for us to speak your language. So we take the time to get to know your business and its needs. That's how we tailor our advice for your business and maximise the value of your intellectual property assets. We have the expertise to match your needs, whether it's to: conduct a patent or trade mark search to advise you on your freedom to operate keep you up-to-date with a competitor watch prepare, file and prosecute a patent, trade mark or design formulate commercial agreements assist you to enforce your rights against an infringer.

Practice Areas	No. of Attorneys
Energy and Oil & Gas	1
Intellectual Property - General	27
IP - Trademark/Copyright	16
Litigation	1
Trusts and Estates	2