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Engineering Expertise

Baxter IP is a leading Australian intellectual property attorney firm with extensive expertise across various engineering disciplines. Our patent attorneys specialize in securing patent protection for clients working in areas including mechanical systems, aerospace, manufacturing, agriculture technology, and university engineering research.

Our Areas of Expertise

  • Mechanical engineering
  • Construction engineering
  • Mining engineering
  • Aeronautical engineering
  • Naval engineering
  • Agri Tech
  • Manufacturing
  • University spin-outs
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Our IP attorneys have prior industry experience in many of these areas. This allows them to deeply understand the technical complexities behind engineering innovations and the commercial context driving our clients’ businesses.

Our Engineering Patent Attorneys

With over 20 years of experience in providing services across various engineering disciplines, Baxter IP leverages specialised technical expertise to secure strong patent protection for clients. Our patent attorneys have served diverse industries including mechanical systems, construction engineering, aerospace, manufacturing, agriculture technology and more. We possess in-depth knowledge from backgrounds in areas like physics, mechanical engineering, and electrical engineering.

Client Margaret Egan comments about her experience with Baxter IP, "This was a particularly hard-fought case in the US overcoming substantive obviousness grounds of objection. Although a simple product, our invention is extremely important for protecting young animals while allowing access." Leveraging both legal skills and technical insights, we overcame initial rejections to successfully prosecute the patent in this case.

Combining Legal and Technical Excellence

With advanced technical credentials and industry experience, our patent attorneys fully understand the complexities of the innovations they protect. With experience across mechanical systems, aerospace, manufacturing, and agritech, our patent attorneys leverage prior careers in engineering disciplines to provide unmatched insight. This includes advanced degrees and work experience focused on:

  • Mechanical engineering design including dynamic systems, thermodynamics, and material science
  • Avionics, aerodynamics, and flight control systems
  • Industrial engineering and manufacturing operations
  • Agricultural technologies and machinery

Additionally, Warren Chandler draws on his deep experience to provide unique expertise assisting medical device inventors. He has successfully guided clients from provisional filing through national phase prosecution to obtain comprehensive patent coverage. Our strategic approach includes considerations such as filing early to establish priority dates, identifying multiple inventions within one product in order to fully cover the IP, drafting claims focused on hindering competitors, and targeting high-value revenue streams.

As described by client Professor Burkhard Franz regarding his medical device invention patented by Baxter IP "The granting of patents in the US and AU represents a significant advance in this field, and opens commercial opportunities to license the technology to local and overseas companies, with projected large economic returns."

For specialist advice on how to protect your engineering IP, contact one of our experts today.

Baxter IP’s Approach to Robust IP Protection

Our strategic approach to protecting engineering IP includes:

  1. Early filing to establish priority dates
  2. Identify the crux of the invention: Cover the concept behind the ideas, not just specific implementations
  3. Identify multiple inventions: Viewing the one product from different angles can often lead to being able to define multiple inventions. This can (1) help protect future research and development, (2) create IP asset value, (3) reduce the risk of invalidity of your application, (4) better capture arising infringement.
  4. Brainstorm and then file again: Once your initial patent application has been filed, meet with a group of creative and commercial employees together with your patent attorney and see if you can (1) find ways to broaden your claims, (2) develop new embodiments of your invention, (3) define ideas in different ways in the claims to create new independent claim sets, (4) think how a competitor might replicate your idea in a less preferable way but in such a way as to avoid infringement of your claims.
  5. Focus protection on competitors, not consumers: It is important that patent claims be written correctly to ensure that competitors that will be producing the claimed apparatus, or carrying out the protected process, will be found to be infringing your patent—and not your customers.
  6. Focus protection on commercial advantages: The wording of the claims should be broad enough to protect the commercial advantages of the invention, and not just the particular apparatus or software.
  7. Protect the consumables: Where possible, it is important to protect not just the apparatus or process, but also consumables used in or with the apparatus or process. In this way, the important revenue streams can be protected.
  8. Targeting the arrow: In addition to protecting your new ideas, IP protection can be targeted at hindering competitor product development by filing patents or registered designs around likely future versions of their product line.
  9. Protect products made by a process: Filing claims that cover products made by the inventive process can enhance protection in some markets.

We recognize that intellectual property is a vital strategic asset for innovative engineering firms. Contact our experts to discuss the best approach to protecting your innovations.

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Baxter IP possesses in-depth expertise drafting and prosecuting patent applications both in Australia and key foreign jurisdictions like the US and Europe to achieve the broadest coverage possible for complex engineering and medical innovations. Our patent attorneys' technical backgrounds enable us to secure strong protection even in the face of substantive objections.

"We are able to help our clients in identifying and explaining the substantial benefits of the key differences offered by their invention, and help them to fence their market off through patent protection." - Chris Baxter

Sharing Knowledge, Cultivating Expertise

At Baxter IP, we believe actively participating in ongoing education is essential for IP attorneys, staff, foreign associates, and clients alike to stay on top IP case law and procedures. Our training curriculum keeps our IP attorneys abreast of most recent developments through Rethink™ meetings analyzing new case law, disputes workshops, and external development courses. We also train technical assistants, administrators, and other firm staff through weekly and quarterly training sessions tailored to their roles. Our quality assurance system assures the highest quality of work consistently performed for our clients.

Additionally, Baxter IP provides regular educational programming to share updates and best practices with foreign associate firms across the globe. Keeping our international network informed on the latest Australian case law and procedures allows us to excel in serving overseas clients. The firm also opens its doors to clients through lunch-and-learn presentations and workshops aimed at demystifying key challenges like patent drafting or IP strategy. Clients walk away better positioned to make decisions aligned with their business objectives. This focus on knowledge sharing ensures expertise permeates every level of our firm so we can continue delivering outstanding service to local and international innovators.

At Baxter IP, we believe supporting the next generation of entrepreneurs and IP professionals is imperative to foster ongoing innovation. That's why we formed extensive partnerships with incubators and entrepreneurial programs across Australian universities.

Our IP attorneys actively mentor students in early-stage startups, providing pro bono IP guidance and coaching founders on protecting intellectual property even with limited resources. We work closely with standout initiatives like the University of New South Wales Founders Program and The Macquarie University Deep Tech Incubator.

In addition to hands-on mentorship, Baxter IP supports Australian student entrepreneurs through monetary grants and awards. Our annual Baxter IP Scholarship provides $1000 USD directly to a college or graduate student pursuing forward-thinking research in science and engineering. Baxter IP also donated to help fund the launch of UNSW's Entrepreneurial HDR initiative to equip PhD candidates with skills to commercialize research.

By sharing IP expertise and investing financially in the next wave of young founders, we believe Baxter IP promotes transformative technology and research that will shape the future while training entrepreneurs to properly leverage intellectual property in their ventures. Our commitment to emerging innovators pushes advancements on campus from lab to market.

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