Our Values

Living Our Values

Dedicated, Transparent and Commercial

In working with Baxter IP, you will receive commercially astute and legally thorough IP advice to protect your market position. Underpinning this promise are the values that drive us:

Dedicated & Supportive

We are dedicated to running the race with our clients toward their objectives with a fully supportive professional capability.

Transparent

We are transparent in how we handle your matter and by offering clarity on timing and costs.

Commercial

We offer the most client centric IP advice. This is business contextual and commercial in nature.

At the heart of Baxter IP is a group of attorneys who really care about innovators, their projects and the change that they seek to create. Whether you are a member of in-house counsel or a mum-and-dad entrepreneur, you can rest assured that our culture of care is for all.

COMMUNITY & PARTNERSHIPS

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 patent attorneys advising UNSW Founders accelerator start-ups

Baxter IP is a benefactor of UNSW Founders, the university’s start-up engine, and has supported its programs since 2018.

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.

Patent strategy & IP due diligence