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Seamless cross-industry, cross-disciplinary patent attorney advice
We've delivered successful patent and trade mark protection spanning multiple industries and technologies and can draw on this expertise to provide seamless advice for your company.
Strategy first
We use IP searches & analyses to inform strategic decision making to protect your innovation or brand strategically.
Analytical, technical and creative talent
Our patent attorney and trade mark attorney teams provide analytical, creative, technical and commercially-minded talent to your project. All participate in rigorous ongoing internal development to keep us at the leading edge of developments in IP.
Award winning
Our patent attorneys and firm have established a reputation for being the best and are highly awarded.
Tech spectrum covered
Each Baxter IP patent attorney provides technology specialist advice. This allows our team to cover the full spectrum of technology from biotech and medical devices to robotics & software.
Our Awards
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Chris Baxter, Qi Zhang, Martin Earley recommended
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Vivek Dahiya recommended
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Patent Prosecution Category - Baxter IP & Patent Star 2025 - Asia-Pacific Jurisdiction - Chris Baxter
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Best Specialist Patent & Trade Mark Law Firm
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Supporting Australia’s innovation community
Since 2018 our patent and trade mark attorneys have run pro bono IP clinics, due diligence reviews and masterclasses for Australian universities, accelerators and industry bodies — across health, defence, agrifood, software and cross-border trade. Founders get commercial IP advice while it can still change the outcome.
Baxter IP is a benefactor of UNSW Founders, the university’s start-up engine, and has supported its programs since 2018.Patent strategy & IP due diligence
10X Accelerator
Pro bono patent attorney due diligence for every 10X cohort since 2018 — across the 10X Health, 10X SynBio, 10X Climate, 10X Defence and 10X General streams. Each founder gets a plain-English read on what their venture actually owns, what has already been made public, and which parts are worth protecting before they raise.New Wave
Built for women founders. We have delivered pro bono workshops, one-to-one advice and mentorship since 2022, covering when a provisional application earns its keep and how to talk to investors and manufacturers without destroying patentability.Coach & Connect
Baxter IP founder and patent attorney Chris Baxter is a UNSW mentor on the program. The questions here are rarely academic: who owns what once a co-founder leaves, whether a provisional filed eighteen months ago still covers the product that shipped, and what a term sheet quietly assumes about the portfolio.Beyond the accelerator, Baxter IP attorneys work with UNSW research institutes and international programs.Healthtech & biotech IP
Tyree Foundation Institute of Health Engineering
Tyree IHealthE runs the Health 10x accelerator and the Innovation Catalyst program, moving medical technology from concept to clinic. Our healthtech attorneys look at devices, diagnostics and digital health platforms before a paper, poster or first-in-human study closes off patent rights overseas — the most common way Australian medtech quietly loses protection.UNSW Global Summits
Global Summits bring international founders, researchers and student delegations to Sydney. We deliver the intellectual property sessions: how Australian patents, trade marks and registered designs actually work, how they connect to the PCT and Madrid systems, and what a team building across borders needs to file first.Baxter IP runs IP masterclasses for La Trobe University’s accelerator, working with Victorian researchers and student founders on the commercial reasoning behind a portfolio rather than treating filing as a box to tick.
They are delivered by our Melbourne attorneys and cover ownership between university and founder, publication timing, and how to budget a portfolio that has to last a decade.IP attorneys in Melbourne
UTS Startups is one of Australia’s largest university start-up communities, with hundreds of ventures active at any time. Baxter IP supports its founders with early IP guidance and takes referrals from the program.
Most of these teams are building software, hardware and data products, where the useful question is rarely “can we patent it” but “what here is worth owning, and in which markets”.High-tech & software IP
Farmers2Founders accelerates agrifood-tech ventures across Australia and New Zealand, from producer-led ideas through to scaling companies. Baxter IP runs IP workshops through its programs on an ongoing basis.
We cover protection for machinery, sensing and robotics, biologicals, and the agronomy and data platforms built on top of them — plus the ownership questions that surface when a grower, a research body and a start-up have all contributed.Agri-tech patents
evokeAG is the Asia Pacific region’s flagship agrifood-tech event, and the one point in the year where Australian growers, start-ups, corporates, researchers and investors are in the same room. Baxter IP attorneys take part in the ecosystem around it.
It keeps our agrifood practice close to where the technology is actually heading, which is what stops IP advice becoming theoretical.Agri-tech patents
Auswerx backs Australian defence and dual-use founders, giving them commercial guidance at no cost so that a promising idea has a route to becoming deployable capability. Baxter IP works with founders from that network on the IP side.
Defence IP carries constraints the rest of the market never meets: export controls, secrecy directions under the Patents Act, and Commonwealth contracting terms that can quietly decide who ends up owning the technology.Engineering & advanced manufacturing IP
Baxter IP is involved with the Australia China Business Council, which supports two-way trade and investment between Australia and China.
We advise Australian businesses on securing brands and technology before they enter the market — particularly trade mark squatting, and the disclosure that happens the moment a design goes to an overseas manufacturer.Trade marks in other countries
Startup Muster is the largest annual survey of the Australian start-up ecosystem, and the data behind it shapes how government and industry read the sector. Baxter IP has been its IP Partner in 2024, 2025 and again this year.
The sponsorship keeps intellectual property inside a national dataset that would otherwise count funding and headcount alone — which is how IP ends up being managed as a cost rather than an asset.IP strategy & consulting
