Lisa Ritson is an intellectual property partner
Lisa is an internationally recognised intellectual property lawyer and does a broad range of contentious and non-contentious work in the areas of trade marks, copyright, merchandising, marketing and advertising, sponsorship and endorsement, intellectual property licensing, passing off, confidential information and consumer protection.
Lisa acts for many leading global companies on managing and exploiting their intellectual property portfolios and on dealing with intellectual property infringement issues.
Lisa provides strategic advice on registration, exploitation and enforcement of client intellectual property and on drafting a range of intellectual property based agreements including sponsorship, merchandising, technology licensing, research & development and collaboration agreements and content supply, distribution and agency agreements. Lisa regularly acts for clients in Federal Court litigation in relation to intellectual property and marketing matters. She also advises on anti-counterfeiting, marketing and advertising programmes, product labelling, food and cosmetics regulation, lotteries and consumer promotions. Lisa is recognised as a leading intellectual property practitioner in all the major directories which cover intellectual property law.
Legal Updates
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Media Update
30 Jun 2020 The High Court's spotlight on a tort of privacy in Smethurst v Commissioner of Police
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IP @ Ashurst Update
25 May 2020 As solid as a Rokt - Federal Court holds strong on test of patentability for computer-implemented inventions
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IP @ Ashurst Update
06 Apr 2020 Crown use of intellectual property rights in Australia